Fireman

artifact: “Do we give away our freedom?” and “What controls our feelings and our thoughts?” I think Mr. Smith assigned this artifact to help us better study literature and connect it to real-word issues. I chose to write about the story’s protagonist, fireman Guy Montag, because he appeared easy to scrutinize. To do just that, I used blue Post-It page markers to highlight passages related to him. I most likely forgot that I…

where no one even thinks. This book is set in a time when books are illegal because they are the only real thing left, this conflict leads to the development of the characters. The main character, Guy Montag, plays the role of a fireman who does the opposite of what a fireman should do. In Ray Bradbury’s book, Fahrenheit 451, there are many character changes. Even though many of the characters undergo changes throughout this book, Montag’s is by far the greatest. After meeting Clarisse, burning…

Montag throughout Fahrenheit 451. In the novel Montag’s interactions with others really influenced his changes. During a conversation with Clarisse, a 17-year old girl, she told Montag, “fireman used to put out fires rather that start them.” That conversation with Clarisse made Montag curious. When the fireman were called to a house Montag stole a book, and witnessed a woman burn with her books, that made Montag realize that burning books may be wrong. During a conversation with Mildred,…

Beatty is the head fireman, who burns books and houses. In order for Montag to rebuild or changing society he either has to Beatty into changing the law or he needs to kill him. One night after Beatty made Montag burn down his house because of the books Montag had kept throughout the years of being aoi fireman, Montag killed Beatty, Montag “was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling, gibbering mannikin, no longer…

Heroic First Responders On the tenth anniversary of the attacks on September 11, the most important people were not invited to the ceremony. The first responders that were present on 9/11 were not invited. Days before the ceremony, “No Firemen at Ground Zero This 9/11” by Michael Burke was published discussing the importance of the first responders, how much they should be respected and how they need be invited to the anniversary ceremony. He felt as if that they needed more recognition than…

A rule is a set of explicit or understood regulations or principles, governing conduct within a particular activity or sphere. Rules are necessary to maintain peace and order in a society. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, and Antigone, a play by Sophocles, portray events in which rules in societies may be rightly imposed or broken under certain circumstances. In Fahrenheit 451, a futuristic society has assigned firemen to burn books in order to rewrite history, and a naive adolescent attempts to…

Clarisse McClellan, a young girl who is a opposer to the society of Fahrenheit 451. She is an innocent girl that claims to be crazy in her behaviorism. Clarisse is different than the rest of the society in Fahrenheit 451. She has a different personality and mindset. Clarisse likes jumping in the rain, and having conversations, however, no one else likes these things. She defies the daily life of everyone in this society. The Government silences Clarisse because they are afraid of her spreading…

genuine suspicious girl to a fireman by the name of Guy Montag where the novel is set in a futuristic setting. For example, she asks odd questions to a fireman about his job that should not be asked in a setting where firemen start fires instead of putting them out. Clarisse questioned, "Do you ever read any of the books you burned?" Ray Bradbury shows how Guy Montag responds by stating, "He laughed. "That's against the law!"' Clarisse asked these odd questions to the fireman about his job that…

replaced present knowledge and people live with no reminders of history or appreciation of the past. Firemen have been given a new occupation, to burn books as they are considered evil because they make people question and think. Guy Montag is a fireman responsible for destroying not only the books he finds, but the homes in which he finds them in. Books are not to be read; they are to be destroyed without question. The state mandated that all books must burn. Montag found pleasure in…

characters in Fahrenheit 451 are encouraged by this fear to follow the status quo of their society. Mildred, wife of the protagonist Guy Montag, is a classic example of this internalized fear of individuality. When she finds out that her husband, a fireman whose job it is to destroy literature, has been stealing books and hiding them in their home, she loses her…