Influence Of Montag In Fahrenheit 451

Montag soon begins to enter the bonfire stage. Clarisse, is an observant, curious, open-minded and unique 17 year old girl. Montag, after meeting a couple times with Clarisse, is when his eyes truly open that his society is full of fake realities. He becomes observant and starts asking questions about his society. While being with Clarisse, Montag would smell the leaves and notice the small details; therefore, he was having a shift from being a prisoner to going up to the bonfire. On page #48 it says, “ You’re not sick,” said Mildred. Montag fell back in bed. He reached under the pillow. The hidden book was still there. “Mildred, how would it be if, well, maybe I quit my job awhile?” “You want to give up everything? After all these years of working, because, one night, some woman and her books-” “You should have seen her, Millie!”…. “You weren’t there, you didn’t see ,” he said. “ There must be something in the books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” This is the event that changed Montags viewpoint on books

Without Clarisse Montag would never have changed, he would have stayed a fireman who burns while wearing his happy mask. Even though Clarisse dies, she impacts Montag throughout the entire story, she impacts the decisions he makes long after she is gone. Mildred however makes little impact on Montag’s life, if any, I think Mildred just serves as a reminder to Montag about what his life would go back to if he gave up. I think that after Mildred died, Montag soon forgot about her, unlike Clarisse who will impact his life

Wikipedia will be a very frequently visited website when he has questions. It basically has everything for information. He can learn about what he is most curious about too, books. Wikipedia can briefly answer most of the questions he has. Wikipedia is going to probably be the #1 website that he visits.

After Montag returns to his house after talking to Clarisse, the author hints that there are other dimensions to Montag’s character by stating that Montag is in denial of his own unhappiness and he is hiding something behind his ventilator. 7. When the reader first encounters Mildred, she is described as someone who does not enjoy human interaction and only listens to the Seashell radios in her ears. Also, she is very pale and empty because she overdosed on sleeping pills.

Montag did not listen, and Mildred’s friends were starting to get anxious. That’s when, Montag left, and he left to get a book, a poem to be exact. He was going mad, but Mildred wouldn’t allow it. She simply covered up the truth, and said that each year, the fireman are allowed to take one book home to show their families just how silly it was. Faber told him to say that was exactly what it was, so Montag agreed. So he started reading the poem, slowly and steadily, and while reading, one of Mildred’s friends started tearing up. He continued to read, till the very last line, and when he finished, she was crying. Mildred was now mad at Montag, and they all left, upset at Montag. I found this part particularly climatic, because of how Montag pulled something as risky as this. Problem after problem, another one arose. Although there were continuous problems, this next one I believe, was the biggest climax. It started with a call, a call that someone was found holding books. Montag was a fireman, so he had to see to it that the books were disposed of. On the way, Beatty talked to Montag, and told him that he would be the one to burn the books this time. Clueless, Montag hesitantly agreed. Shockingly,

The conflict of the story is man vs. society. He is going against the reading and having books rule. He wants to read and know more. He wants Mildred to know how good it feels to wunder and imagine, but she does not want to know or even try because her TV tells her not to, just like all of her girl friends. “‘Police Alert; Wanted: Fugitive in the city’” (117). this quote shows how Montag is being hunted by the city for reading and having a books. When that broadcasted on TV, the TV told them to open the doors so they could look through their houses to try to find him. He ends up fighting everyone that gets in his way like Beatty and the hound, but he gets away.

Clarisse made Montag wonder if he was really happy. Mildred tells Montag that she likes the way things

Montag plays a vital role in this book by showing the struggle of human kind when it comes to seeking knowledge and the unsettling feeling of when things just don’t seem right. Why is the main character Montag such an important role in this book? Along with his interaction with the seventeen year old Clarissa and how she helps him to realize that the world isn’t perfect, while he slowly unravels which could be his undoing. Toward the end, Montag meeting with the professor and others puts him on a path of what looks like clarity.

Now this is where a red light pops up, while laying in the bed he thought to himself “that if she died, he was certain he wouldn’t cry” after realizing his current situation with her. (Bradbury Pg.21) He also found out that he wasn’t happy with his lifestyle. Near the end of the story some wise former english scholars told Montag that everyone leaves an imprint on something, even Mildred can; that's when he remembered where they met in “chicago, a long time ago, Millie and I, thats where we met!” (Bradbury Pg.75) It was then that he felt the satisfaction of his failed but temporarily enjoyable marriage, thinking it was fun while it

Montag and Mildred throughout the whole novel never really had a connecting relationship. Although they never really connected, Montag still had concerns for his wife. He shows this by the reaction of her suicidal overdose and trying to communicate with her. However, in part three of the novel Montag’s apathy for Mildred was almost fictional. By this point Mildred has betrayed Montag and his feeling toward her had forever changed.

As Montag is on his way home from work he feels something is watching or more so watching over him. Intensity builds up as Clarisse McClellan comes out of the shadows and introduces herself to Montag. Clarisse tells him she's “seventeen and insane” (Bradbury, 5) also letting Montag know she's not afraid of him because he is a fireman. After their short talk Montag continues on his way home, as he opens the door he feels a sense of eeriness. He walks into his bedroom and discovers his wife, Mildred on the cold floor with a empty bottle of sleeping pills next to her. “Her face was like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain;” (Bradbury, 11) Montag calls up the hospital to send help, the help pumped Mildred's stomach empty and the next morning she doesn't remember what happened and Montag doesn't mention it either.

One day, the fire station receives a phone call stating that there is an old lady who has books stacked in her home. The firemen begin destroying immediately upon arriving. Montag realizes the inhumane treatment towards the old lady and begs her to leave the house before getting seriously injured. She leaves him to confound after letting him know that she will never leave her beloved books. Montag manages to take a book, before the house, books, and the lady is left to burn. That night, he tries to tell Mildred about the incident, yet she is still uninterested in what he says. However, she tells him that Clarisse passed away in a car accident, as he is always curious about her. Montag called in sick the next day and is surprised with a visit from Beatty. Beatty strangely knows that he has taken a book, and is curious to read it. Beatty makes a great effort to reassure him that every fireman has a phase of curiosity, and warns him that books must be returned after twenty-four hours if taken in hand to be properly destroyed.

Montag later goes to the fire station and gives one of his books to his chief Beatty. He tells montag that books are awful and that they should be burned. The alarm goes off and they run off to answer the call only to find out it was at montag’s house mildred gets into a taxi and leaves montag because she couldn't bare to be in the same house with the books, she betrayed montag. Beatty forces montag to burn his house, he then place montag under arrest for reading and hiding the book. Montag throws the flame thrower to beatty setting him on fire, he knocks the other firemen unconscious and

After meeting Clarisse, Montag begins to question society. Clarisse is very straightforward and clear to Montag. He said that he can see himself in her eyes. "How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?'' (Bradbury 11). She makes him aware that he never stops to think. He tells Mildred that Clarisse was ''the first person I can remember who looked straight at me as if I counted'' (Bradbury 72). Through his friendship with Clarisse McClellan, Montag recognizes how cruel society can be as opposed to the joys of nature in which he rarely experiences. When Clarisse makes

Now going home in a very troubled state, Montag finds his wife in bed and all 30 of her sleeping pills gone. He calls emergency services and two handymen come along with a slithering vacuum like machine that replaced the stomach contents and her blood with new clean versions. The next morning Montag questions Mildred about her overdose but she avoids the topic completely and denies that it happened. Montag has to go in for work so he took his usual train and went to the station. From there to traveled to a ladies house to burn it down, but the woman was refusing to leave the house. This changed the perception Montag saw his job in, and ended up stealing a book in the burning process. Montag does not want to work anymore, so he doesn’t go to work the next day and instead decides to read the books and see what they’re about. Beatty figured that that’s what Montag was doing and came by the house to