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    characters that help with a main character develop and in Fahrenheit 451 the main character Montag meet some life altering people. This main character is. The three characters that play the most crucial role in reeducating Montag include: Clarissa, Faber and Beatty. Clarisse appears multiple times…

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    The metaphor describes the willing ignorance of people to feel happiness. Faber describes this in his explanation on why books and literature are seen as negative in explaining, “So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless…

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    in the books and his complicated relationship with Faber. Heller’s first topic was about how happiness was defined in Montag’s futuristic society. He described it as “sitting in front of a television with a six-pack of beer, free of hard work, of complex human relationships, and of the disturbing stimulation of the ideas and images of the great artists and thinkers.” (Heller, 2) It is understandable how Heller…

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    sees a police report for a fugitive on the loose. The only issue is Montag is the fugitive. Not knowing what to do he instantly calls Faber. Faber tells Montag to follow the railroad tracks out of town, look out for any camps or homeless and to meet him in St. Louis. By now, there is a mechanical hound, helicopter and several camera crews on the search for Montag. Faber takes a bus into the city with clothes for Montag so the hounds can't track Montag's scent. While Montag is running out of the…

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    Fahrenheit 451 Paper The “greater good” is an influential personality trait that people can obtain or learn from. It’s not only someone who is prominent, but someone who has a genuine impact in someone’s life. Fahrenheit 451 is an excellent example of the greater good. Ray Bradbury sprinkles intelligent themes and morals throughout the book through the characters and the environment. Guy Montag is the protagonist, and the essential “hero” in the story. Montag mostly maintains a lot of the…

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    to insert a strong dynamic, albeit minor, character. In Bradbury's daunting futuristic novel Fahrenheit 451, Faber, a retired professor, evolves from a mysterious old man to an inspirational individual in Montag's search for redemption and revival of books through his recognition of past failures and his ability to guide Montag through difficult situations throughout the novel. Faber is first introduced in the work as a trembling old man, almost as if he's trying to hide something. When…

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    can not be distributed over a large number of ships (Faber et al., 2009). The start-up costs of some measures outside the dry dock period or inspection periods lead to delays in the actual implementation of a cost-efficient measure that would otherwise have been implemented before. And regarding the loss or reduction of benefits related to the cost-efficient measure, we find additional maintenance problems or losses related to speed reduction (Faber et al., 2009, Maddox Consulting 2012, Acciaro…

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    Montag Character Analysis

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    for beatty to protect his supremacy over the other men. Once beatty noticed the green bullet in montag's ear and threatened to “ Trace it and drop in on your friend.( pg.112)” This threat from beatty set off montag because montag adopted feeling for faber and wanted to protect his friend. Montag yelled “No… ‘he switched the safety catch on the flame thrower. Beatty glanced instantly at Montag’s fingers and his eyes widened the faintest bit.’( pg.112)” Beatty kept pressing montag saying “hand it…

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    “You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing there will be no result”~ Mohandas Gandhi. One of the many themes shown through the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is action vs. inaction. The main character Guy Montag, who is an inactive fireman who burns down the homes of book owners as a punishment for breaking the law, turns into an active man who takes action upon his beliefs. Bradbury, who published the book in 1953, predicts a future filled with…

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    novel, however, Montag is transformed into a curious man that seeks the truth about books and what really happens in their society. A major influence on this transformation is his contact with subordinate characters such as MIldred, Clarisse, and Faber. His interactions with these characters show him what it would take for him to be happy, and what had previously caused him not to be. These characters molded Montag into his own man that questions society, rather than conforming to it. One of the…

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