Imagine a young child who does not like to eat broccoli. All of the other children dislike broccoli as well, saying it tastes bad, and does not go with anything. The child grows older and tries broccoli again, this time well seasoned and delicious. The child loves broccoli now and wants all the other children to try it. The other children still hate broccoli and ostracize the vegetable loving child for being different. The vegetable loving child attempting to convince the other children that broccoli can taste good can be compared to Guy Montag from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Much like a child who hungers for broccoli and wants the other children enjoy it, Montag is ostracized because of his hunger for books. Ray Bradbury shows Guy
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However, the firefighters of this novel burn books, rather than put out fires. The firefighters claim that houses have always been fireproof, but Montag eventually realizes that is untrue. Montag first begins to change his viewpoint after he meets Clarisse. Clarisse is a teenage girl who Montag meets on his walk home from work. Clarisse challenges Montag’s views of life and causes him to undergo his major character change, which is what makes Montag a dynamic character. Throughout the course of the novel, Montag begins to question whether books may actually be good. At the beginning of the novel, Montag held an opinion that was similar to the rest of his society, saying that “[i]t was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed” (3). He tells his wife, Mildred, that they are going to read the books he has stolen from the houses he has burned, telling her “if what the Captain says is true, we’ll burn them together” (66). Montag attempting to embrace the ideas in the books shows how his opinion of books has changed. Montag fully embraces this when he kills Beatty and runs away from the charred remains of his
However, the firefighters of this novel burn books, rather than put out fires. The firefighters claim that houses have always been fireproof, but Montag eventually realizes that is untrue. Montag first begins to change his viewpoint after he meets Clarisse. Clarisse is a teenage girl who Montag meets on his walk home from work. Clarisse challenges Montag’s views of life and causes him to undergo his major character change, which is what makes Montag a dynamic character. Throughout the course of the novel, Montag begins to question whether books may actually be good. At the beginning of the novel, Montag held an opinion that was similar to the rest of his society, saying that “[i]t was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed” (3). He tells his wife, Mildred, that they are going to read the books he has stolen from the houses he has burned, telling her “if what the Captain says is true, we’ll burn them together” (66). Montag attempting to embrace the ideas in the books shows how his opinion of books has changed. Montag fully embraces this when he kills Beatty and runs away from the charred remains of his