Fireman

Guy Montag is a fireman. But not quite like the firemen we know today- his job as a fireman is to burn books and the houses they are kept in. It is the 24th century and books are forbidden by law, since technology and ignorance has taken over and people much rather spend their days in their parlors, with walls made completely out of television screens. He lives in a society of people with no independent thoughts, no time to relax and be alone and no meaningful conversations what so ever. One…

being banned, despite being a fireman for 10 years. Bradbury uses dramatic irony to elicit empathy from readers when Montag started becoming curious about books and secretly had a hidden stash of around 20 of them. Not even his wife, Mildred, knew he had books hidden for over a year, “Mildred backed away as if she were suddenly confronted by a pack of mice...hear her breathing rapidly and her face was paled out and her eyes were fastened wide.” The fact that Montag, a fireman, someone who is…

follows Guy Montag, the protagonist, as he goes through the phases of a hero's journey, starting as a normal citizen and ending as a rebel, enlightened with knowledge and hope of rebuilding the city. Montag starts in the ordinary world as a conformist fireman who burns books and homes with no remorse. The start of Montag's character arc describes him in a scene where he burns books. It says, “Montag grinned the fierce grin of all men, singed and driven back by flame. It never went away, that…

book mentioned above is a fictional novel that explores a dystopian world where the people are forbidden from reading books and assessing any form of knowledgeable material. The story revolves around the protagonist who is known as Montag. He is a fireman who is at first proud of his job that involves burning the books that are confiscated from the people. The protagonist transforms gradually and at last, he joins a rebel group that does not support the ideologies of the referenced society where…

In the Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury tells us a story how the whole society has been disconnected from the reality and how books are being burned so no one can escape the prison. In this story, we see how Ray Bready a fireman is who doesn’t put out the but puts fire in houses to burn them. The reason they burn the houses is that it a crime to read books in this society. In this society, there is not allowed to read books because they think that if they read books it creates emotions and that can…

For instance in 451 the topic of what a fireman was originally keeps getting brushed over. Clarisse, and Montag have both asked if fireman had originally put out fires rather than starting them. Perhaps the worst lie within this one is in Bradbury’s society’s American history. “Established, 1790, to burn English-Influenced books in the Colonies. First Fireman: Benjamin Franklin” (Bradbury 34). In our society Benjamin Franklin is known as a man who…

If you were asked to name a few superheroes, you would probably have Superman, Iron Man, Batman, and Captain America on your list first, and what they all have in common? They are all white males. And you would probably have to resort to Google to get yourself to name more than two minority heroes after Storm from X-Men and Green Lantern, not the Ryan Reynolds one. Straying away from the superhero criteria norm, Marvel recently rebranded Spider-Man as Miles Morales, a black hispanic kid and…

the government and books throughout the novel. He went through so much heat in the novel, with him being a fireman and having to deal with what he had felt for books was hard. He had to make sure he didn’t get caught for what he was doing. The complexness of Montag’s character development is a long and weird cycle. Montag starts off as a fireman that feels the same way as every other fireman does about books. They absolutely hate them with pretty much every bone in their body. A lot of his…

Fahrenheit 451 In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Guy Montag is a fireman, in the future, that goes to houses that has books and burns the entire house down. Montag was a completely different person in the beginning of the of the book than in the end of the book by the choices he made during the novel. Nobody in the future society of the story thinks for themselves because everyone made to watch T.V., and all books are banned. The government had said that books are submissive and give…

Science fiction novel set in a dystopian future society. The novel centers on a law-enforcement type force that is charged with relieving the world from printed literature. The main force behind this group of enforcers are known as the Fireman. Guy Montag, alike other fireman, uses kerosene, their main tool to destroy the books found by fire. As the story progresses, we being to witness a change in Montag’s way of thinking. After making connections with a teenager named Clarisse that is also his…