How Does Fahrenheit 451 Change

During the war, Ray Bradbury witnessed the Nazi book burnings as a teenager, where the Nazis would burn all books going against their beliefs. Bradbury also would have witnessed what is called “The Great Purge” where many poets and writers were either arrested or even executed. As he later became a writer, with him witnessing such events, it would only make sense for him to write a novel about a time where books are banned, to show the readers the importance of books in our society. Some themes discussed in this story are the themes of literature and writing, technology and modernisation, rules and order, wisdom and knowledge, violence, identity, dissatisfaction and man and the natural world. “Fahrenheit 451” is entered around Guy Montag, who gets curious about books, in a world where books are both banned and burned.

Can books and people change a person’s way of thinking? Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is about Guy Montag who is a fireman who burns books and houses. Throughout the book he realizes he’s not happy so he has to transform his mindset by using books and people. Guy Montag changes in the story through his increasing problems in his relationship and his perceptions in books. Throughout the first third of the novel Guy’s relationship with Clarisse was that she was be annoying and disrespectful to Guy.

Thinking is thought of evil or breaking the law. Montag, the main character, is a “fireman” and he loves to burn the books. He starts reading some of the books, then falls in love with them. After he has read them, he has to burn them, but Montag does not want to. He rebels against the rules and ends up getting caught.

In both dystopian stories knowledge is the reason the protagonist gets into trouble. In Fahrenheit 451, guy montag’s involvement with the knowledge of books turns his life upside down. He starts out in the book a care free fireman working nine to five burning books, to a felon on the run after he torched his fire captain. Knowledge ruined his life, but if he never met Clarisse he’d be living a somewhat happy life. Knowledge doesn’t provide happinest look at our society, the NSA spying on citizens, presidential candidates committing treason, and illegal immigrants crossing the border to have children to leech of welfare.

The passage Montag recalls later is Ecclesiastes 3. It says "For everything there is a season... a time to break down, and a time to build up... a time to keep silence, and a time to speak" (Ecclesiastes 3). This describes Montag's life in a way. He used to burn books at Beatty's command without objection, but as his urge to gain knowledge grew stronger, he betrayed the firemen to build his collection. At the beginning of his life in the novel, he is breaking down the collection of books, but later he is building the collection and will hopefully use books to help rebuild the societies that are ruined physically and

Striving to create a legacy through his fiction like his favorite fantasy authors had, Bradbury began publishing his writing out of high school. His love for science-fiction is evident throughout his work, especially in his novel Fahrenheit 451, a story that depicts a futuristic world intent on eradicating books in order to maintain an ignorant, unquestioning society. William Golding also incorporated his past experiences into his writing; however, unlike Bradbury, Golding’s later life influenced his stories. Being a grammar school teacher after college, Golding found writing inspiration in the unruly young boys he taught (“William Golding”). These children undoubtedly shaped Golding’s vision to write Lord of The Flies, a story in which a group of British boys stranded on an island disastrously attempt to govern themselves.

The oppressive society impacted Montag's identity because at the beginning of the book he believed in burning books and at the end of the book he didn’t believe that books should be burned. Three events that burned exemplify this impact are stealing his first book, watching the girl burn her house down and her in it, and him burning his own house down. The oppressive society impacted Montag's identity when he stole his first book. Montag is looking for a book to steal to read. In the book it tells us how montage stole the book “Montag's hand closed like a mouth, crushed the book with wild devotion , with an insanity of mind lessens to his chest” ( 34-35).

In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Montag, the protagonist and book burner, battles between the light and dark sides of society, first with Beatty, his boss, and the government and then with Clarisse, a neighbor girl and Faber, an English professor. Montag is stuck in the dark burning books and is ignorant to the world around him. He moves towards greater awareness when he meets Clarisse and is awakened to the wonders of deep thought and books. Finally, he risks his life by trying to save the books. At the outset, Montag was consumed by the darkness.

Montag says,”His hand had done it all, his hand, with a brain of its own, with a conscience and a curiosity in each trembling finger, had now turned thief”(35). By stealing the book, he is rebelling against his society and his previous habits. This is a big step for him; he transforms from a devoted fireman to what his society considers, a criminal. He takes a book, but he does not know what to do with it. He calls an older man, Faber, for help and tells Faber,”I want you to teach me to understand what I read”(78).

In the book, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, it is set in a corrupt future where the government has a certain power over the people by censoring the outside world, by burning books. In this corrupt future the government censors books by burning them. A former fireman rises and begins to fight the government by working together with a former English professor to bring books back into this rough future. In the process of this chaos the main character Montag’s home town is now in the midst of a war, people vs. government, and he heads back to try and save some of his fellow citizens who so desperately need his help. Ray Bradbury uses symbols such as technology, firemen, and hounds to show censorship and how the government controls the people.

Fahrenheit Book Burner In the book Fahrenheit 451 firemen burn houses instead of putting fires out ,and the author Rad Bradbury includes how technology is “Taking over the Economy”. Firemen are the policemen of the future world ,and some humans have made mistakes by hiding books. The author reveals throughout the novel how montag goes through transformation and how he changes. Guy Montag has never questioned his job before he ever met Clarisse McClellan. For instance Guy Montag is confronted with a thought in mind of how he does not understand the whole truth about books.

Montag began his career as a dedicated fireman. He was taught to burns books and he performed this task well, taking great joy in his life as a firemen. He loved the smell of kerosene burning the books at 451 degrees Fahrenheit. These were the books that were so vehemently hated. But this all changed when Montag met a young girl by the name of Clarisse.

Can you imagine not being able to read your favorite book? Well, in a book named Fahrenheit 451 that’s how it is. This book was written by a man named Ray Bradbury with a theme that is developed through the story’s characters and their impact on the protagonist. The main character of this story is Montag, and the characters that influence Montag are his neighbor named Clarisse, his fire chief Captain Beatty, and a retired college professor named Faber. To begin, the character named Clarisse wasn’t like any sixteen year old girl, she actually thought about stuff and to wanted to know why certain things would happen.

Throughout Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury express’ how curiosity has the ability to drive one to do what is unexpected. Guy Montag is a firefighter who is completely passionate about his job in the beginning of the book because his father was also a firefighter which means he was meant to be one. The firefighters are sent to burn the hidden books as well as the houses the books are hidden inside. The books are burned because the government doesn 't want the people gaining knowledge that could overthrow them. As Montag goes around burning all the books he finds himself pondering over how the knowledge inside the books could be so powerful.

First in Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury shows us a dystopian society where fireman instead of putting out fires they start fires. Second we are shown a new character named Guy Montag who is different from all of the other fireman. Third in F451 instead of reading books firemen burn books with the exception of comic books but Montag the main character of the story does something other fireman do not do he keeps books. Also in F451 Bradbury mentions some future technology that we could have 50 years from now including giant wall tv’s,mechanical hounds,and flamethrowers. Finally in F451, Bradburry shows us a dystopian society where fireman instead of putting out fires they start fires which is not what our world is like today.