Guy Montag

1. "It 's fine work. Montag burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That 's our official slogan. -Guy Montag (page 6) Montag talks with Clarisse for the first time and she asks him interesting questions about his work as a fireman. For example: "Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" And then Montag explains Clarisse their official firemen slogan. Millay, Whitman and Faulkner were famous American authors during the 19th century. Their books…

Society can change a person positively or negatively. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Mildred is the wife of the main character Guy Montag. Society has made Mildred self-centered, robotic, and unfeeling. First, Mildred is self-centered. In Fahrenheit 451, early on in the story Mildred overdoses and dies. “The small crystal bottle of sleeping tablets which earlier today had been filled with thirty capsules and which now lay uncapped and empty in the light of the tiny flare.” said…

washed his hands. After 20 years of burning books, Guy Montag met a young girl who led his hands to the water. Clarisse McClellan was "seventeen and crazy," and somehow, she entered his mind and showed him that he was unhappy. Earlier in his life, he'd met an old, cowardly philosopher by the name of Fabor. Fabor also helped push through the thick skull that the society had built up over his brain. Why would these people try to convince Montag that thinking is important? Pleasure is the only…

but there was a shorter version published in 1951. The number of pages in this book is small but even with such few words written the author got a powerful message across in only 158 pages. The beginning of the book is a very eerie one. In which Guy Montag who will be the narrator and main character throughout the book is describing his love of being a fireman. But being a fireman to him is not the same as being a fireman in today 's time. In this dystopian society where people don’t enjoy…

Montag is the protagonist/anti-hero who rebels against society 's regulations concerning books. Captain Beatty is Montag’s boss who secretly knew of Montag’s illegal actions all along. Both men are rather similar. They both are firefighters who are intelligent…

The protagonist of the novel, Guy Montag, challenges society’s deranged ways while transforming into a more thoughtful, reflective individual. Bradbury uses characters and events to show Montag’s transformation throughout the novel. Using Clarisse McClellan as a catalyst, Ray Bradbury begins to create an inner-conflict within Montag. When McClellan asks Montag, “Are you happy?”(pg. 7), it provokes new thoughts and ideas within Montag, evoking a major change. Montag goes from someone who…

In Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag refuses to be lead by a foolish society of the 22nd century. Montag has been questioned through the entire novel. Ray Bradbury's introduction to Clarisse, Montag's acauaintance, included "Are you happy?" to light the first spark, so to speak, in the mind of Montag. This inquiry took quite a toll on MOntag. As the first statement in the novel, "It was a pleasure to burn, Bradbury pulled the audience in with most of them thinking what would this person be burning?…

where the mechanical hound captures people. After Guy Montag was suspected of owning books and murdering Beatty, the police force used a mechanical hound to track him down. As the search for Montag was going on, the mechanical hound lost his scent and it appeared that Montag had evaded being captured. The people in power did not like this so, they looked for a scapegoat to replace Montag. They found a random pedestrian, but they said it was Montag that they found. The government could not…

Fahrenheit 451 Born into a futuristic, technologically based society, Guy Montag had never thought to question anything. By accepting the way things were, without questioning anything Montag had lived his life in serenity. He was a fireman, which is a well respected individual in his society. A fireman ignites books and houses that contain them. Throughout the book, Montag began to change after he met Clarisse McClellan. All this time Montag had worn his happiness “like a mask” and had claimed…

influence on Montag. Although there are many characters that influence Guy Montag, the friendship with Clarisse mcClellan impacts him the most. She causes him to open his eyes to the world and makes him begin to pay more attention to others and their emotions. She helps him realize how wrong his job is as her being the total opposite of society. One of Clarisse’s major roles in the novel is to get Montag to start thinking and examine his life and the world he lives in. According to Montag, “ It…