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    Guy Montag, a fireman in his world, confused by his own intentions figures there is more to life than the little he has been told. Although he doesn't know how to make a change. In a society reliant on technology and the ease it brings, authenticity of information is in short supply, dehumanized by the deprivation of real feelings and emotions leads to people's live being seemingly superfluous to themselves and desentization leads to negativity where people can't control their own thoughts even…

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    novel, Fahrenheit 451. In the story, a lonely Guy Montag is forced to choose between his government and life, and the books he has come to love, that have sense been outlawed. Constant unhappiness, a strong influence, and an increasing interest in the illegal was enough to drive law abiding Guy Montag to the top of the government’s hit list. Montag felt he had a mediocre life. He speaks highly of his life, only when talking about his job as a Fireman. Guy was a husband to a woman who spent…

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    mixed between nature and experience, such as a person who has Catholic views, but believes in gay rights although they were brought up to believe it was wrong. Most stories have a complex character, such as Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451. Montag is a perfect example of a complex character. Montag is a fire fighter, but he is not an ordinary fire fighter. In the society of “Fahrenheit 451”, firefighters do not stop the fires, they start them. In the story, no one is allowed to read or have books.…

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    Guy Montag: 30 year old firefighter. He loves to burn books- “It’s a pleasure to burn…”- until one day he and his crew burn down an old lady’s house and he realizes how terrified she looked, and how much the books meant to her. Guy is passionate, driven, crazy at times, a free thinker, but identity crises happen with him often. His crises begin when he meets Clarisse, and she tells him how he’s so much different from other firemen. “When I talk, you look at me. … The others {firefighters} would…

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    change. In Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is a firefighter with a weird twist. Firefighters burn down books instead of putting the fires out! When doing this job and meeting other types of people, Montag comes to realize that he is on the wrong side, and that he should be saving the books instead of burning them. Guy Montag is a deeply interesting character, he shows curiosity, self-awareness, and courage. He is a man who changes greatly throughout the book. First of all, Montag has a strange spark…

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    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…

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    Guy Montag is a firefighter in a futuristic world. Therefor, Firefighters don’t fight fires anymore, they cause fires. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Books in this world are different than they are now, they hold something that the society cannot handle. Consequently, the firefighters are ordered to burn them. Montag changes throughout the story by the influence of Clarisse, Faber, and Mildred. Ordinarily, books are a violation of people, so the Government feels that books can…

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    supposed to be a utopian society. The main protagonist, Guy Montag, is a firefighter but his job duties are not what most people would imagine a firefighter to do: Montag doesn’t put out fires, he creates them. During the novel, Montag goes from house to house, burning them down because there are books inside the houses. In the ‘utopian’ town, books are not allowed and are forbidden to be read and talked about. Although, as a firefighter himself, Montag realizes how powerful books are and how…

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    Guy Montag is a dynamic Character in Fahrenheit 451structural narrative for many reasons. The story setting took place in the far future where people are so wrapped up in blissful numbing effect of technology in which they refused to think for themselves, and firemen burned books because it was decided that books make people unhappy. Books were also considered to be a conflict with ideas of society. They were a few small groups that were determined to remember books and start learning. The…

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    character, Guy Montag, undergoes a character transformation throughout the novel. His whole life and understanding of everything thing goes under a transformation throughout the novel. His curiosity and questioning of society and the normal, how people see him, and involvement from burning to saving books all change. One way Montag changes is how he is seen through the eyes of the public. He is a highly respected firefighter. He was a stereotypical third generation firefighter. Beatty knew…

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