follows the laws‚ into a person who challenges the law. Montag wakes up from being numbed and realizes that he is unhappy. Montag ’s wife‚ "Mildred"‚ who is addicted to Television and radio‚ did not care about Montag ’s feelings. However; Clarisse and Faber played a big role in Montag ’s life. Montag is a metaphor for a numbed society and his courage is demonstrated as he wakes up and evolves into his real human self throughout the book. Montag ’s first awakening starts when he meets Clarisse‚. A 17
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different people that make him face his real self. Although Montag might not know it‚ maybe others know a little bit more about himself than he even does. The old lady teaches Montag about sacrifice and sticking to your beliefs no matter what. Then Faber teaches him that books maybe do mean more than just the words on the page. Last‚ Clarisse McClellan teaches Montag to slow down and appreciate the little things in life that are equally important as the big ones. Montag changes so suddenly when the
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Bradbury is about a fireman named Montag who learns about the journey of books. The overall mood of the characters is unhappy‚ with the exception of three memorable character named Clarisse‚ Granger‚ and Montag. All of the other characters such as Faber‚ Mildred‚ and Beatty are all unhappy. Americans today sometimes suffer the cruel symptoms that infect the fictional society in Fahrenheit 451. Despite the very deficient world set in the novel three characters still have the will power to
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with Faber in chapter two on a plan to sabotage the houses of firemen‚ and finally stands up for what he believes in when he shakes the firemen and begins life on the run in chapter three. Eventually he joins Granger’s gang of book-loving hobos‚ and they begin their work to keep books alive. If not for family dynamics‚ he would have never begun his book crusade. Even though family dynamics are in most ways negative‚ in the case of Faber family dynamics are a positive. Montag convinces Faber to join
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burning.” The firemen have also affected the society through proofing the complications of literacy and life becoming immediate. However‚ Montag evolves from his true image of fire by establishing a change with the help of his friends: Clarisse‚ Faber‚ and Beatty that have influenced his life in several different aspects. Firstly‚ a seventeen-year-old girl‚ Clarisse influences change on Montag’s characteristics by helping him recognize the importance of accepting a new vision. This quote
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in his surroundings‚ to a person conscious of everything‚ enlightened by the new world he is exposed to. In Fahrenheit 451‚ Bradbury uses three choric figures to shape the character of Montag. They are his next door neighbor Clarisse‚ Professor Faber‚ and the chief of police‚ Captain Beatty. Clarisse is the young teenage girl who moves in with
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FAHRENHEIT 451 BY RAY BRADBURY Important People in Montag’s Life In Partical Fulfillment Of English 2 Ms Irina Abramov By Helen Hernandez November 9‚ 2012 “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them” -Ray Bradbury. In the past there were events that affected book writers. People will get together to burn books because they thought it was inappropriate or they were against their literature. Montag is a fireman in a futuristic society who would start
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reliance on entertainment‚ and does not care that she cannot remember how she and Montag met. Captain Beatty: He is the captain of the firemen‚ and he ironically is very well-read. He knows about Montag’s secret library and tries to stop Montag. Faber: He is an old English professor who helps Montag develop and show him the right way to take the firemen structure down and escape to the
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As the main protagonist of the book‚ Montag portrays a dynamic character‚ whereas his perception of society around him changes throughout the book. Not only did he question their actions‚ but also his own happiness. This showed that he was‚ in fact‚ more intelligent than the others. This is significant because society is administered by a single lie that happiness should only exist. Clarisse is open minded because she thinks distinctively from society. She does not believe in violence that of which
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Bradbury ’s novel‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ was written at the onset of the fifties as a call to the American people to reflect on how the dominant social values of their times were effecting both the lives of individual Americans and their government. Fahrenheit 451 attacks utopian government and focuses on society ’s foolishness of always being politically correct. (Mogen 113). According to Mogen‚ Fahrenheit 451 depicts a world in which the American Dream has turned into a nightmare because it has been
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