In Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag meets a young girl named Clarisse McClellan.
Clarisse sets off a chain reaction and starts to change Montag's beliefs. Now, Clarisse is the person that starts all of this, but doesn't keep it going on throughout the book. There are other things that cause Montag to change his beliefs. Such as an old woman that didn't want to be separated from her books, so just burned with them instead. Also, Montag started to see that what the fireman and himself were doing wasn't right, as he started to wake up and see what was going on. Overall, Guy Montag develops a new perspective of things throughout Fahrenheit 451.
First, a young girl named Clarisse McClellan starts to change Guy Montag's perspective.
"'Are you happy?' she said" "'Happy! Of all nonsense"( Bradbury 10). Montag starts to wonder if he really is happy, and not in a melancholy-like state of mind."'Have you ever heard of rubbing it [a dandelion] under your chin?'"( Bradbury 21). After Montag rubbed the dandelion under his chin he discovered that he wasn't in love and then wondered why and started to wonder where he and his wife, Mildred, had met in the first place, but couldn't remember. Montag had started to notice things that were imperceptible, to people who don't think like Clarisse and her family. Clarisse was young, crazy, didn't grow up like Montag did, and had different beliefs about the world and shared those beliefs with Montag. Young Clarisse didn't change Montag's beliefs by herself and carry it on though, she just started it and other things carried it on. Second, an older woman burns with her books because she didn't want to be separated from them. " The woman knelt among the books, touching the drenched leather and cardboard, reading the gilt titles with her fingers while her eyes accused Montag. 'You can't ever have my books,' she said" (Bradbury 38). These sentences show that the woman cares for the books and doesn't want the firemen to take them from her. During this event, Montag seemed to feel guilty because he could see her pain, which he had never felt before. "The woman on the porch reached out with contempt to them all and struck the kitchen match against the railing. People ran out of houses all down the street" (Bradbury 40). After that happened …show more content…
All of these people have read a book and memorized most of it through a method that didn't seem to take that long. Granger and his group are now called a certain book because they have a great profusion of knowledge about that particular book than everybody else. Even though Montag only knew these people for a short period of time, he still learned a lot from them, just from the way they said things. Granger had said stuff that made Montag wonder different things and realize things about himself that were never realized beforehand. "If anything should happen to Harris, you are the Book of Ecclesiastes. See how important you've become in the last minute!" ( Bradbury 151). In my opinion this could possibly make Montag want to become full of good knowledge to spread to other people later on. Guy Montag has learned a lot from Granger and his friends by just listening to what they are