Who Is Faber In Fahrenheit 451

In part 2 of Fahrenheit 451, the main character Guy Montag meets a man named Faber. Most of part 2 talks about what Faber and Montag teach each other, and what they do together. First, Guy Montag meets Faber, who is an old English teacher who stopped working when books began to be taken away and viewed negatively. Faber is similar to an older, more intelligent Clarisse. Faber teaches Montag a lot of things. He teaches montag that reading books of all types will give him knowledge and make him smarter, as he will see things from a new perspective and think differently than everybody else who just watches television. Faber shows Montag that books will change his life and the way that he looks at things. Guy Montag looks up to Faber, and sees him as teacher. Faber knows that he is more intelligent than Montag, and thinks of Montag as lower than him. But, he wants to help Montag find the true meaning of life, by showing him books and reading. Faber remembers the …show more content…
They want Beatty gone, and for all the firemen to realize what they are doing and suffer from taking books away from everyone. So, Faber gives guy montag a two-way radio that fits in his ear. This is because Guy Montag wants to place books throughout the houses of the fireman, to make them question books and make them think of why they are fireman. Montag wears the piece so that Faber can stay in touch with him, and Faber promises to help him when he is around Beatty or other firemen. Beatty thinks that he can control Montag, and that fireman always do the right thing, and makes the rest of the firemen and Montag believe him. Montag is scared that Beatty will intimidate or try to question Guy, so Guy can be caught for reading books. I like this a lot, because I like in stories when secret plans are made to try to take down the antagonist of the story, because I like the plans and I like to see how certain characters react in certain