Guy Montag is a fireman who lives in a futuristic city. In this world, the firemen burn all books and literature. Instead of putting out fires, they start them. In this society, books are not appreciated at all. The people just watch television and listen to the radio instead. Then one days, Guy meets a young girl named Clarisse McClellan. She makes him see the emptiness of life within this society. Then a few disturbing events take place. First, his wife, Mildred attempts suicide by swallowing a bottle of sleeping pills. Then, he encounters a woman who has a stash of hidden literature, and decides to be burned alive with all of her literature. After this, He finds out that Clarisse has been killed by a speeding car. Guy’s dissatisfaction …show more content…
Beatty tells him that he understands what he is going through, and explains why books were banned. He gives Guy twenty-four hours to read the books, and see is he can find anything worthwhile within these books. He realizes that he need help understanding what he is reading, and turns to a retired English professor that he had once met, named Faber. He agrees to help him, and together they create a dangerous scheme to overthrow the abandonment of books and literature. The plan was that Faber would ask a printer to start printing books once again, and Guy would put books in the home of firemen, so that no one would trust them, and they would have to stop burning books. To secretly communicate, they used a two way earpiece, so that they could hear whatever the other person hears and also talk to each other. At the fire station, an alarm sounds, so they go to answer it, when the see that is coming from Guys house. Guy sees Mildred leaving, and realizes that she has betrayed him. Guy is then forced to burn his own house, but he then uses the flamethrower to burn Beatty, and knocks out the rest of the firemen. A mechanical hound is now chasing after Guy, but he escapes with some of his books. He places them in the house of another fireman, and calls in an
Beatrix Mr. O’Brien English 9 December 15 2015 Guy Montag: Montag is described as a fireman which job is to burn books, not to fight with the fire. He is brave and royal and always try to find true happiness. At the beginning of the book, he thought he was happy with his job and his life but many things happened that changed his life. He met Clarisse, a bright girl, and she questioned him “ Are you happy?” that startled him.
In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury the novel could not have been written the same way if Guy Montag did not meet Clarisse McClellan because meeting her changed Montag's life and the way he sees things. While Guy Montag was walking home he ran into Clarisse McClellan who is Montag's new neighbor. She was always talking to him about weird ideas. She asked him if he liked being fireman and if firemen always made fires and instead of putting them out.
He is the main character and the protagonist of the novel. He is a fireman, their job is burning the books and he enjoys it firstly but lately he feels a little bit of emptiness. When he meets with Clarisse McClellan who lives next door to Montag's makes Guy understands the cruelness of the society which they live in it. With that, he understands that he doesn't really love his wife and his marriage. He starts to think deeply about everything.
After remembering the encounter Montag visits him and asks Faber to help him understand the words he is reading. Faber at first was skeptical about helping Montag and did not understand if it would be beneficial but ultimately ends up assisting Montag to understand what the taboo text means. While taking lessons from Faber, Montag reveals a plan to plant books in the homes of each fireman so they have charges of treason brought down on them and the firehouse itself is burnt. Faber agrees that the plan is smart and gives Montag a two way radio so Faber can listen to the conversation and help Montag know what to say next time he encounters
Some people are taught by universities while others by libraries. Ray Bradbury was totally the second case. Nine years after he was born the Great Depression made a descent upon the United States of America which changed his life a lot. During his schoolyears he was a part of different drama clubs and played a lot, but even though he was an intelligent kid, he had no place to go after school and the only way was to the local library. “Libraries raised me,” he later said.
He believes he has a successful marriage and a happy life. However, the reader soon comes to understand that this happiness in only on the outside. As Guy Montag's eyes open more and more throughout the novel, he changes. Montag loves to burn. He loves watching things be destroyed.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury was about a firefighter named Guy Montag. In this society, firemen start fires instead of putting them out. Books in this society are illegal and you aren’t allowed to read and if you were to get caught reading the book, it would be set on fire. People watched lots of television as big as the wall, called parlors. They also listen to the radio attached to their ears.
Having a Fulfilling Life Imagine where you would be if you have never read a book in your life. Unread every book you’ve ever read. It’s kind of depressing. You live in the same, plain world as everyone else.
The setting of the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. It is set in a city like New York. The book Fahrenheit 451 was published in 1953, but is based in 2053. People thought that the novel was set in Los Angeles. The mood is chaos, the characters are determined to get everything is achieved.
The book follows Guy Montag, a fireman who sets things on fire instead of put out fires. He enjoys his job until on one job an old woman decides to burn with her books rather than evacuate. Haunted by her death, Montag becomes confused on why books would mean so much to anyone. He then decides to find out for himself by reading books from a personal stash of stolen books. Montag has a personal revolution; he realizes the dangers of restricting information and intellectual thought.
As the books went up in flames, Montag became enraged by society and how the world was becoming. Mildred, Clarisse, and Captain Beatty influenced Montag the most throughout the book to rebel against the government. Mildred was one of the main characters in Fahrenheit 451 who influenced Guy Montag. Mildred was in her own little world where nothing bad ever happens to her.
Captain Beatty visits Montag, Beatty realizes the signs of Montag stealing a book. Beatty gives Montag a lecture on why books are not good for society, but Montag doesn't listen to Beatty.
Fahrenheit 451 In the book, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the main character is Guy Montag. It is called Fahrenheit 451 because 451 is the degrees at which book paper burns. Montag is a thirty year old firefighter who instead of taking out fires, he starts fires. The firefighters in this book burn books because the public thinks they are useless and a waste of space and time.
Guy Montag was fireman and his job was to destroy books. That’s why he states this, “It was a pleasure to burn” (Bradbury 3). This quote explains that he likes burning books; and he has been burning books for 20 years, and his Dad and Grandpa were also fireman. So it’s tradition to be a fireman. However Guy’s attitude changes when a woman burns herself to death because she loved her books.
Many people of the modern day society are more distracted by technology. These distractions cause people to be oblivious to the those in their surroundings. In Ray Bradbury’s story, Fahrenheit 451 a firefighter named Guy Montag lives in a world where books are outlawed. Montag is a firefighter, but these are not your ordinary firefighters. In this corrupted society, firefighters are signaled when books are found in a home; they then burn the books and the houses.