Fahrenheit 451 Character Analysis

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The book “Fahrenheit 451” was written by Ray Bradbury. In the book the main character was named Montag and he was a fireman that instead of putting out fires he lit books on fire. Later on in the story Montag hides the books and he happens to keep the very last copy of the bible. Towards the middle of the Montag starts to change a lot in many ways. Initially in the beginning of the book, Montag was like a “perfect” fireman. Sir Montag was a Thirty year old man. He was also a fireman that would go into people's houses and raid their houses for books and when they found the books the fireman would burn them. Montag was a big protagonist. His responsibility of being a fireman was to find the books and burn them. Throughout the book, Montag

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