Fahrenheit 451 Outcast Quotes

Throughout the book, Montag notices that the Hound does not like him. The Hound is also frequently a part of his thoughts. Whenever he goes to the station he is kind of frightened of the Hound, and makes sure he knows where it is.

In Fahrenheit451 talks about the mechanical hound this mechanical hound is like a robot that can sense Montag and books. Bradbury states “The mechanical hound slept but did not sleep, live but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel in the dark corner of the firehouse”(Bradbury 21-22). This quote means that the mechanical hound is like a robot at the same time, this robot can smell the books in people’s homes. Another meaning for this quote is that the mechanical hound can help the fireman out because it can smell the books and show the fireman where the books are in the homes. Another quote that talks about the mechanical hound a little bit more is Bradbury states “Three second later the game was done, the rat, the cat, or chicken

Since the hound has the inability to think for itself, and because it can, “remember and identify ten thousand odor indexes on ten thousand men” (Bradbury, 127), it is the perfect solution to tracking and abolishing nonconformists. This is seen in the novel, with the search for Montag. The government’s persistence on the ridding of individualists is clearly observed when Montag destroys the first hound, and a second is immediately sent, with news reporters stating to the citizens, “--Mechanical Hound never fails. Never since its first use in tracking quarry has this incredible invention made a mistake” (Bradbury, 126). It is obvious just how desperate the government is to obliterate rebels. The Mechanical Hound is a clear portrayal of a uniform, undeviating society with a fear of anything “abnormal” or unique. It can ultimately be described as the watchdog of their society, constantly on the lookout for novelty and innovation. Montag expresses his sympathy for the hound by stating, “…all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that’s all it can ever know” (Bradbury, 25). The government is so radically engrossed in maintaining the norm, that the creature is never permitted the opportunity to know anything other than destruction. The Mechanical Hound is “a fitting representative of unrelenting pursuit and execution for those

walls. If you are out and driving, you can go so fast that everything's a blur out the window. Just like in today’s world, the government doesn’t make it as obvious but they want you to go out, spend your money, and get the newest and latest stuff so the people don’t care about anything that’s actually happening behind them. This book and today’s society are very alike. There are new technological advancements made every day."All of those chemical balances and percentages on all of us here in the house are recorded in the master file downstairs. It would be easy for someone to set up a partial combination on the Hound's ‘memory,’ a touch of amino acids, perhaps. That would account for what the animal did just now. Reacted toward me." This is a machine that can have emotion and control how it acts. In the book, they have mechanical hounds that can track and kill you, and our advancements today, can almost take us to that point too. You don’t have enough freedom to live in this society, but the people don’t realize it and only abide by the rules. Not only that but they are not allowed to maintain literature.

According to the novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Rollo May’s quote “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity” is inaccurate because for what these people in the society conformed to, is a coward act on it’s own. To go ahead and follow something you don’t have knowledge on with the stakes so high and then not give others a voice when they bring viewpoints that differ to what you originally conformed to, is known as a cowardly act. Conforming is just a cover up stuck in ignorance and stubbornness, an excuse for cowardice.

Guy Montag is a man that cannot think for himself and enjoys following the government’s orders. The novel introduces him with one of his thoughts, “It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed” (Bradbury 1). On his way home from work one day, Guy meets a young girl named Clarisse McClellan. She’s the only person who questions his actions and challenges him to start thinking about why he burns books. Clarisse asks Montag if he ever reads the books that he burns, Montag laughs and says, “That’s against the law!” (Bradbury 5). Montag has been so brainwashed and ignorant about burning books, but Clarisse gives him new ideas by continuing to create doubts in his mind. She talks to Montag about the firemen from the past and how they were different then they are now. Clarisse says to Montag, “Is it true that long ago

of Beatty. Montag then runs away and tries to hide. A hound is sent after Montag to kill

example explained in the novel was when Billy got his hounds and he trained the and

He finds an ex-professor named Faber, whom he met in the park one day. Faber is reluctant, but finally agrees to aid Montag against the firemen. Faber provides Montag with a two-way radio earpiece. That evening Montag loses his temper and breaks out by reading some banned poetry aloud to his wife’s friends. Which wasn’t such a bright decision. That night at the firehouse, Beatty pokes at Montag by quoting contradictory passages from the same books. Which he’s trying to prove that all literature is confusing and problematic. Then he takes Guy to a fire alarm. Which is very astonishing because it’s at Guy’s

He can't remember when or where he first met her. In fact, all that Montag does know about his wife is that she is interested only in her "family" the false images on her three-wall TV and the fact that she drives their car with high-speed abandon. He realizes that their life together is meaningless and purposeless. They don't love each other; in fact, they probably don't enjoy anything, except perhaps burning (Montag) and living secondhand through an imaginary family (Millie). When Montag returns to work the next day, he touches the Mechanical Hound and hears a growl. The Mechanical Hound describes as a device of terror, a machine that is perversely similar to a trained killer dog but has been improved by clean technology, which allows it to inexorably track down and capture criminals by stunning them with a tranquilizer. Montag fears that the dog can sense his growing unhappiness. He also worries that the Hound somehow knows that he's confiscated some books during one of his raids.The chief, Captain Beatty also senses Montag's unhappiness. Upon entering the upper level of the firehouse, Montag questions whether the Mechanical Hound can think. Beatty, who functions as the apologist of the dystopia, points out that the Hound "doesn't think anything we don't want it to think." Instantly, Beatty is suspicious of this sudden curiosity in Montag and questions whether Montag feels guilty about something. After several more days of encountering Clarisse and working at the firehouse, Montag experiences two things that make him realize that he must convert his life. The first incident is one in which he is called to an unidentified woman's house to destroy her books. Her neighbor discovered her cache of books, so they must be burned. The woman stubbornly refuses to leave her home; instead, she chooses to cook with her

(Watt 41). Bradbury reinforces this contrast by causing Mildred to relate only to the subject of herself, while Clarisse's favorite subject is other people. When Montag meets the Mechanical Hound, he discovers that it is a "dead beast, [a] living beast" (Bradbury 24). Donald Watt describes it as a "striking and sinister gadget" and it "is most terrifying for being both alive and not alive" (41; Huntington 113). The Hound becomes "Montag's particular mechanical enemy…[and it] becomes more suspicious of him" as time passes and Montag develops a greater freedom from his society (Johnson 112). Thus, Montag is thrust into the realization that his culture is not flawless, but instead is rife with abuses of human freedoms.

We were all playing cards at the station when then the fire alarm buzzed and Beatty walked looked at it and walked back to the table and sat down. Which was unusual then after we finished the card game we loaded up the Trucks and pulled up to my house. Beatty said that a call came in for my house that my wife call me in so Beatty told me to burn my house down. I went and grabbed the hose off the truck and Captain started going on about how he warned me to get rid of the book by send the Hound out around my house. Then he started and hit me which then cause my earpiece to fall out and heard my friend talking and then threatened to go after my friend so I made the decision the pull the gas lever and kill Captain Beatty. Thanks Montag, Jury we present to you our second piece of evidence the recording we were able to pull to the earpiece which will collaborate with what Guy Montag testified was true. We also acknowledge that yes Montag had books but he was told by Beatty that they could have them for twenty-four hours before burning them. If this was true why did Captain Beatty have Montag try and burn down his house it’s clear my client Guy Montag was lie to by Captain Beatty to try and get rid of my client because he started asking to many

“Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone,” by Paul Tillich. In the Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield is on the verge of a nervous collapse, and his loneliness is a major contributor to the reason for his depression. Holden’s loneliness both harms, and protects him. It isolates him, so he doesn’t hurt relationships or bonds; his isolation pressures him into wishing that doesn’t need other people, when in reality, he needs them, especially people close to him, to stay sane.

I ask Montag what is happening and whether or not he is fine after as he approaches his house. Through the earpiece I faintly hear Beatty telling Montag about how others but he goes on and that there are no consequences and no responsibilities, but there are. I quickly ask Montag if he is able to escape from the situation that he is in. Montag does not respond, I again hear Beatty talking to Montag about how the perpetual motion of fire is what draws us to it and then I hear him telling Montag to burn his own house. I once again, this time demanding, yell for Montag to run away. Montag cries, “No, I can’t, the hound will chase after me!”

Robert Cohn has a vast amount of insecurities. He is mostly insecure because Brett will not be in a relationship with him and she is the love of his life. “You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another,” (Hemingway 6) Jake explains to Cohn. Cohn wants to move to South America because he is unhappy with his lifestyle, however, Jake knows that Cohn’s unhappiness isn’t caused by where he is living, but how he is living.