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Fahrenheit 451 Quote Analysis

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Clarisse plays a major effect on how Montag acts in the book, Fahrenheit 451. Clarisse tends to ask Montag throughout the book if he is happy. Montag would respond with “of course” even though he clearly was not happy. Clarisse’s main function in the novel is to make sure Montag is okay, and ask if he is happy all throughout the book. Clarisse is a catalyst for his becoming of a human being. This changes how Montag acts in the book by making him realize how he isn’t happy with his life. This hits Montag hard because he realizes that she is the only person that actually cares for him in this harsh world. Clarisse had to vanish from the novel because in most dystopian novels, there is a protagonist that is opposing what is happening in

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