Changes In Fahrenheit 451

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“We are cups constantly and quietly being filled the trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. (Ray Bradbury) ” In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury , the protagonist Guy Montag was a very content human of society until he was brought to reality. As a denouement of the conflict with his society Montag vicissitudes from a content and intelligible fireman to a valiant, engrossed and concentrated individual when he attained that not everything is as it seems or is told to be.
Clarisse was the start of Montag's process of changing, she was inquisitive and wasn't scared of sharing her observations with him which made Montag think.

“Are you happy’ she said. ‘Am I what?’ he said. He felt his smile slid
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"It's not just the woman that died,’ said Montag. ‘Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before.’He got out of bed. ‘It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I came along in two minutes and boom! it's all over. (Page 49)”
The scene of watching the women kill herself changed Montag and how he perceived books. The event was like a relization of everything he knewn but up til’ now, it was hidden. “You weren't there, you didn't see," he said. ‘There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing. (Page 48)” Instead of books being worthless and full of nonsense, maybe books had something special in them. This thought made him curious and wanting to known more, unlike he was in the beginning of the book. The passion and unchanging stance the women had with burning with her books gave Montag the thought of maybe not everything is what it seems or is said to be. Not only the suicide but also the long, meaningful conversations
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His fascination and want for books change Montag's actions greatly. "So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people only want wax moon faces, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time where flowers are trying to grow on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam." Faber's understanding of books and everything which is being forced away is giving Montag more information and allowing him to form his own opinions different than what society is trying to force. Taking with Faber is producing the change of understanding and bias which Montag was "feeling." The reasons behind banning and burning books were told in a way to support the society but really books are just the opposite; not everything is what it seems or what its told to

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