Fahrenheit 451 Character Analysis Essay

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Montag, the main character begins to question his life when he meets Clarisse. Before his encounter with Clarisse, Montag simply went about his business as a fireman and did as he was told. However, Clarisse challenges Montag to "think" about things, which results in Montag to question his life, his role as a fireman, and the illegality of books. This questioning of who he is and what his society has become separates himself from the norm and his wife, leaving him to be an outcast. Being an outcast, though gives Montag hope and happiness for what is to come for the future.
In Montag’s society one does not think or question what they are being told, just blindly do as told. At the start of the novel, we see Montag fit this mold, and this is shown when he states that he is a firefighter that burns books, and when questioned about it has no answers other than he was told to. However, once he meets Clarisse, a girl who at first frightened Montag with her lack of respect of his authority, she challenges his most ingrained beliefs with her innocent questioning. In a society where reading, driving slowly, or just walking outside alone is outlawed and a conversation is a suspicious event, Clarisse who
He starts to question why books are illegal if they hold what happened in the past. That is why Montag does the most unorthodox thing in his society, he begins reading books and starts understanding the importance they hold. This new forward thinking, not only separates himself with the rest of society, but also leads Montag to strive for a place that embraces different people and beliefs that drive form books. Montag starts a rebellion and leaves his home to be a part of something that is working on spreading the importance of book and the messages in them. He, and with others, try to rebuild things in a better