Fahrenheit 451 In this excerpt “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradburry, takes place in the 24th century, where Guy Montag changes throughout the course of the book. This excerpt is specifically about a time when books were banned everywhere, where technology has taken over. No one in this book, reads, goes and enjoy nature, or talk amongst themselves. They all live a happy life watching television on wall-size set tv’s and listen to the radio on a “Seashell Radio” set attached to their ears. Montag is a firemen who instead of putting fires out, starts fires and gets paid to burn books. Those hiding books in their houses and are caught, the firemen will come and burn your house down. Sometimes even when you don’t want to give up the books, you get burned alive with them. Throughout the course of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradburry, Montag’s character changes tremendously.
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He was a very plain person, like the rest of community, not reading books. Montag loved burning books, in quote, he says “it was a pleasure burning books”; he even wanted to “shove a marshmallow on a stick.” The love of Montag’s job and what he does, is just what the society wants to see in him. He never did question the reason why the society stopped reading books and why they never will again, he just went on with his work and doing his job. Also, with him not questioning why everyone stopped reading books, he never did question why they had to go and burn them, burn people’s homes and even sometimes burn the people. He just did what he had to do. Montag was a rule follower, never broke the rules of wanting the knowledge other people want from books, and taking risks of hiding books in their houses to satisfy that emptiness of knowledge they do not
He was a very plain person, like the rest of community, not reading books. Montag loved burning books, in quote, he says “it was a pleasure burning books”; he even wanted to “shove a marshmallow on a stick.” The love of Montag’s job and what he does, is just what the society wants to see in him. He never did question the reason why the society stopped reading books and why they never will again, he just went on with his work and doing his job. Also, with him not questioning why everyone stopped reading books, he never did question why they had to go and burn them, burn people’s homes and even sometimes burn the people. He just did what he had to do. Montag was a rule follower, never broke the rules of wanting the knowledge other people want from books, and taking risks of hiding books in their houses to satisfy that emptiness of knowledge they do not