The New Guy

In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the main 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…

2014 Title: Fahrenheit 451 Year of Publication: 1953 Author: Ray Bradbury Setting and Time Period: 24th century United States Primary Characters: • Guy Montag- The protagonist of the novel, his profession as a “fireman” to burn books. He becomes shaped by events in his life leading down a path to understand his own life. • Mildred Montag- The wife of Guy Montag, life is consumed by technology, Inside her façade she is unhappy and technology is her escape. • Captain Beatty- The main antagonist…

time in the novel where I was much more preoccupied by the difficulties encountered by the protagonist and whether or not he would survive. The protagonist's name is Guy Montag. He's intriguing to me because he is relentless in his pursuit of knowledge. In a world where books are banned, a chance encounter with an odd girl leaves Guy questioning his life--especially whether he is happy. Soon, he starts to question why firemen burn books--why he burns books--and what is special about them, so…

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…

the pill as well as pumps new blood. 9. Is there anything unusual about the way the two men go about helping Mildred? How is it unusual? There are some impersonal about the ordeal. The men who say this happens often and that the two aren’t needed doctors but just operators. 10. How is life in Montag’s house very different from that of Clarisse’s house? In Montag’s house Mildred and Guy hardly ever talk or communicate in any way.Mildred is always in the polar and Guy is often at work. At…

In Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag portrays a character that lives a fake existence, conforming to the artificial society around him, which later makes him question and brings him to a realization about his society, life and himself as a whole. For instance, Montag conforms to his society by never questioning or wondering about why he lives the life he does as a fireman. Instead, Montag adapts to the dysfunctional society and never thinks twice about his life or the society…

In Fahrenheit 451, the protagonist, Guy Montag, slowly comes into a sense to realize the problems of his society. Originally, Montag is a fireman who loves to burn books. However, he later begins to question his job and wonder if his society is improving in philosophical thought. As the plot progresses, Montag begins to realize his society is deteriorating through the government’s misuse of new technology. Throughout Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury uses Montag to disparage the misuse of science and…

The main character of Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, is Guy Montag. Montag is a firefighter, a burner of books, with very limited perspective on the flawed society he lives in. As the book progresses, Montag experiences many uncomfortable feelings as he starts to learn the consequences of his role. Montag goes from an ignorant participant to a discontented rebel. The book opens with a detailed description of Montag, his burning of a house, and his “fiery grin”. Montag describes burning…

Guy Montag, a fireman who burns books, was pretty much the same as the rest of the population within the city at first, “It was a pleasure to burn.” (p1) He thought. That is, until he meets his new neighbor, Clarisse McClellan. Guy is suddenly barraged with questions that have never bothered to cross his mind like, “Do you ever read any of the books you burn?” (p5) “Did you know that billboard were only twenty feet long?” (p7) “Are you happy?” (p7) The simple minded man is suddenly met with a…

by firemen in order to eradicate their existence. The act of burning books might never manifest in reality, however this book serves as a symbol to what could happen in the future with the shift in focus to new age technology such as the internet and satellite TV. The novel centers around Guy Montag, a fireman whose job is to burn the books, but comes to the realization that books do not deserve to get burned. In particular, a supporting character in the novel, Faber defines the…