In Ray Bradbury’s Book 2: The Sieve and the Sand of Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag endures stage 4. He changes from a mindless destroyer of knowledge to a more intuitive person that wants to preserve knowledge. He becomes inquisitive, persevering, and urgent for knowledge. This is the turning point in Montag’s life, personality, and mind; he has reached the point of no return. Near the end of book one: The Hearth and the Salamander, Montag’s curiosity for books has grown monstrous and he cannot contain it anymore. He desperately wants to read and have an understanding of what he reads. He is not able to understand the text but he persists,”Here now [..] We’ll start over again, at the beginning,” (65) not wanting to miss out on any information
