Guy Montag's Journey In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

In the novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, there are many different ways to interpret the book; and one of them is the main character goes off on a odyssey to satisfy his curiosity. The protagonist Guy Montag follows the path of a hero’s journey intending to find out what secrets are hidden within books. Guy Montag is a married man with an unhappy relationship with his wife, Mildred. He also works as a fireman, but not in a regular fire department, his is designated to light fires upon the property of those who own books because the government has ban them. While on the job, Montag takes part in something that he believes is awful and not justified, but he tries to forget about it and move. But eventually Montag becomes suspicious of his employer’s and their motive for

Once Montag is done crossing the river Bradbury writes, “After a long time of floating on the land and a short time of floating on the river he knew why he must never burn again in his life.” (Bradbury 134). Which is translated into, after living in a lala land non reality world, and a short time in reality Montag realizes why he must never burn books again in his lifetime. Montag moved on from the scary unreality into the new unreal reality which was stunning due to the fact that he had been living in the dark most of his life. Bradbury writes “He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new”. (Bradbury 131). Montag finally escaped from his old foggy dungeon life into the real world without worries of a giant robot dog trying to kill him. No more confusing mysteries that seemed incredulous as to why books were meant to be burned and nothing else. Montag finally ended his hero’s journey started his new life, he was hypothetically