Analysis Of Guy Montag A Dynamic Character In Fahrenheit 451

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Guy Montag is a dynamic Character in Fahrenheit 451structural narrative for many reasons. The story setting took place in the far future where people are so wrapped up in blissful numbing effect of technology in which they refused to think for themselves, and firemen burned books because it was decided that books make people unhappy. Books were also considered to be a conflict with ideas of society. They were a few small groups that were determined to remember books and start learning.
The exposition in Fahrenheit 451 was evident through the description of the starting of the story. The first sentence set the pace, “it was a pleasure to burn” page 1, this gave the notion that this person enjoyed burning things. The novels main character
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His decision was formulated by many factors which can be considered the rising action in the story. One such action was finding his wife overdose with sleeping pills. As the emergency technicians worked on his wife without any sense of concern, and revealed that this is a common reoccurrence in their society Montag realized how distant he was from his wife and that they were no longer in love. The main character Montag continued changing more evidently when he found out his friend Clarisse was dead and when he witnessed the burning of an old woman’s house who wanted to die with her books. These actions caused changes in the main character; he started to question everything and searched for information. Montag questioned his relationship with his wife, and searched for history in books he started to read. Many other actions and situations led to the ultimate action from Montag; such as, seeking help from his friend Faber, and the mechanical Hound showing up to his house sniffing around for books. Montag was reported to the authorities by his wife and her friends; he was then tricked and brought to his home to looks for books.
The burning of Montag’s home was intended to be a big punishment; ironically he took pleasure in seeing it burn. Beatty who was Montag’s boss, threatened to find Montage’s friend by tracing the item Montage had in his ears. Montag, desperate for his friend 's safety and his own survival, decides to turn the igniter on Beatty killing him. This is the climax of the novel because this is a point where Montag can never turn

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