The novel, Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury in 1953, is based on the future, or another world, and is supposed to be a utopian society. The main protagonist, Guy Montag, is a firefighter but his job duties are not what most people would imagine a firefighter to do: Montag doesn’t put out fires, he creates them. During the novel, Montag goes from house to house, burning them down because there are books inside the houses. In the ‘utopian’ town, books are not allowed and are forbidden to be read and talked about. Although, as a firefighter himself, Montag realizes how powerful books are and how they can change lives and decides to steal books from houses before burning them down. His attitude approaching the end changes as he comes across
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He then meets Clarisse, a teenage girl with a different view on life than anyone else Guy has ever met. Clarisse isn’t into the ‘families’ on the television or socializing, she creates an intellectual attraction towards Guy and is curious about other people and who they are on the inside. During their afternoon conversation, Clarisse asks Guy, “How did it start? How did you get into it? How did you pick your work and how did you happen to think to take the job you have? You’re not like the others... No one has time any more for anyone else.” (Bradbury 23) After this conversation between the two, Guy realizes that his dialogue with Clarisse was eye-opening and he desires to read a book while they still exist. While at his job, he decides to steal a book before him and his fellow firefighters burn the house down. When he steals the book, he becomes much more aware of the hound, a machine with 8 legs and can breathe fire, and starts to act guilty as he is cautious around the hound and even tries to stay home from work. As he decides whether to stay home or go to work, this is the start of his character’s ‘death’ because he is finally realizing that the society he lives in, is wrong for demolishing books and the difference of
He then meets Clarisse, a teenage girl with a different view on life than anyone else Guy has ever met. Clarisse isn’t into the ‘families’ on the television or socializing, she creates an intellectual attraction towards Guy and is curious about other people and who they are on the inside. During their afternoon conversation, Clarisse asks Guy, “How did it start? How did you get into it? How did you pick your work and how did you happen to think to take the job you have? You’re not like the others... No one has time any more for anyone else.” (Bradbury 23) After this conversation between the two, Guy realizes that his dialogue with Clarisse was eye-opening and he desires to read a book while they still exist. While at his job, he decides to steal a book before him and his fellow firefighters burn the house down. When he steals the book, he becomes much more aware of the hound, a machine with 8 legs and can breathe fire, and starts to act guilty as he is cautious around the hound and even tries to stay home from work. As he decides whether to stay home or go to work, this is the start of his character’s ‘death’ because he is finally realizing that the society he lives in, is wrong for demolishing books and the difference of