Summary Of Ray Bradbury's 'Titled'

First MIldred is self-centered by the way she acts and how society has been built. In a conversation between her and Montag on page 46, Montag asks, “Will you bring asprin and water?” Mildred responds “You’ve got to get up. Its afternoon. You’ve slept five hours later then usual.”Also on page 48 Montag asks, “Mildred how would it be if, well, maybe i quit my job awhile?” She exctanted, “You want to give up everything? After all these years of working, because, one night, some women and her books!” In these two examples from the novel you can take away that Mildred doesn’t care about what her husband, a fireman, is going through after a ruff night at work. She wants him to work to get another wall for the pallor. Maybe in society has taken away

(MIP) This meme shows one of the most well-known laws of the society in Fahrenheit 451, which also plays a key role in the novel. (SIP-A) The society within the novel bans and burns books, helping to create the country of mindless citizens they now have. (STEWE-1) Beatty, a fire captain who burns books for a living, explains to Montag the government’s logic behind why books are burned. He reveals that as people lives sped up books lost content as they got shorter and shorter (52). In addition to this he says “‘Someone’s written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag’” (57). All controversial books were burned, and the rest chose safe, bland topics. With books

Montag and Mildred have a unique relationship without any true emotion or intimacy. They sleep in separate beds and have nothing in common. They also lack passion and desire which makes them seem more like roommates than anything else.

Thesis Statement: As the protagonist, Montag undergoes many changes throughout the book due to several characters that function as catalysts in his life.

Books have been the main source of obtaining information and discovering a world of knowledge, imagination, and exploration throughout all periods of time.

Mildred is the one who is living with her eyes closed, going along with what’s supposed to be correct because she is too afraid have diverse thoughts. Mildred is unwillingly manipulate into thinking that

To be able to have the leisure to digest is also important so you can better understand the books which always you to better carry out actions based on what you learn from that and the quality of the information. Once you have done the first two traits of books you will be able to fully represent and see why the author wrote the book.

Early in the story, the conflict within the protagonist, Guy Montag’s society was that people do not like the books and the firemen, and Montag must burn the books to keep them away from the society and the books are replaced with “parlor walls”. “Only a week ago, pumping a kerosene hose, I thought: God, what fun!” (Bradbury 85) This quote shows how Montag in the beginning of the

Mildred also has the "parlor walls" which are giant TV's that Mildred takes in as her "family". She finds the channels so fascinating, yet she doesn't learn anything from them or think about it. One day Montag comes in the house and see Mildred and her friends in the parlor room, that's when Montag thinks what is right and decides to read Mildred and her friends a poem, by the time Montag finishes, one of Mildred's friends burst out the door crying. Mildred say she cannot take this anymore so she calls in

She sits home all day and watches her three walls in the living room, that they had equipped with giant TV’s. Mildred bugs Montag for a fourth TV wall. She thinks it would be necessary to achieve the full effect of her TV programs, but Montag refuses knowing that it is a useless and expensive investment. Montag finds Clarisse waiting at the bus stop the next day. She then informs him that she doesn’t go to school because she’s been labeled anti-social by her teachers. Montag and Clarisse continue to carry on a conversation for a while before he eventually had to go and head off to work. Once he arrives at the fire station an alarm sounds to notify the firemen that someone is in the procession of books and that it is time to perform their duty of burning the house of books. Before the firemen begin to incinerate the house, Montag snatches two of the criminal’s books, and when the old lady who owns the houses refuses to leave her personal possessions to be burned the fireman are ordered to burn the house and its books along with her. This act dwells on Montag to the point where is makes him feel sick and very depressed about the inhumane actions he had performed.

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the firemen burn the most wonderful things books. The main character Guy Montag is one of the main characters that is a fireman. Instead of putting out fires like they do today, they burn any house that has any type of evidence that you have books. They do not care who you are or what you do, they will burn your house if you have them. In the start of the book he is burning the books and just doing what he is told.

With fire representing control and censorship it shows how they decide what the people do; fire. This was shown when Captain Beatty said to Montag “Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibilities and consequences. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it… clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later.” (109) this also demonstrates how they burned so they wouldn’t have to face consequences and deal with the problems. Some responsibilities could be dealing with the disagreements with what everyone thinks should be allowed to be written in books and termed

Montag enjoyed his job, and had pride in being a fireman. He acted confident with what he did, and never questioned why he burned houses down. In the book, on page four, it states, “he knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself…” This shows how he was confident with being a fireman.

Beatty is a conformed character, who is a prime example of what authority is in this society. He burns books and kills people to enforce his way of thinking; trying to “keep the peace”. Throughout the book Beatty says that books are useless, and no one needs them. This is another example of how he enforces his opinion on everyone. After an old woman is killed by firemen, Montag doesn’t want to go to work, so Beatty goes to his house. Beatty explains to Montag how he, Beatty, thinks the history of the world and firemen . After Montag questions Beatty about books, he replies saying, “They’re about nonexistent people, figments of imagination, if they’re fiction. And if they’re nonfiction, it’s worse, one professor calling another an idiot, one philosopher screaming down another’s gullet.” (p.59). He sticks with the same mindset throughout the entire book, and even dies for what he believe is

It's a mystery…Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it....Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical” (Bradbury, page 52). In these lines, Beatty analyzes the term, and its purpose in society, which is to clear the mess and the confusion, and restoring what is believed to be acceptable. However, Guy Montag swivels away from Captain Beatty and from what fire has always meant to them as firemen. Right from the beginning “It was good to burn and to snatch, rend, rip in half with flame, and put away the senseless problem…Fire was best for everything!” (Bradbury, page ). Then, he begins to view fire differently. Montag cannot forget the woman that Captain Beatty had burned alive, and he tells his wife, Mildred, “This fire’ll last me the rest of my life” (Bradbury, page 24). With such a profound statement, Guy Montag transforms in a different person right in front of the readers. Burning books, houses, and even people is no longer pleasurable. On the opposite, it scarred the main character so deeply that he craves to make a change, in the hope that, maybe, he will be able to redeem himself from the gruesome, and almost shameful, acts that he had committed in the name of a distorted