Fahrenheit 451: Change
What is change? Webster's Second Collegiate Dictionary, defines change
as to cause to become different; alter; transform; convert. Many things, people,
and world events are able to change. Peace may be present for years and
shattered by a disagreement over religion, or shift of political power.
Technology changes the lives of people and how the interact and work in the
world. People also change. Many do not see any wrongdoing internally, and remain
the way they are. However, there might be outside factors that help them realize
what is wrong with them or the lifestyle they choose to take part in. According
to Preston Bradley, "I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure,
I ...
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eventually becoming a revolutionary in a society
where books are valued.
Many factors contribute to the changes found in Montag. One of the first
influences during the story is the exquisitely observant Clarisse McClellan. She
is different from all of the others in society who like to head for a Fun Park
to bully people around," or "break windowpanes in the Car Wrecker." She likes to
observe people, and she observes Montag, diagnosing him as a
"strange...fireman." He is "not like the others" because when she talks, he
looks at her, and when she said something about the moon, he looks at it.
Clarisse tells Montag that he is different from the other people. He has
something inside of him that makes him "put up with" her. Clarisse makes Montag
look at himself for the first time when she asks him, "Are you happy?" Montag
thinks that she is talking nonsense, but he realizes that he truly is not happy.
Something is missing from his life. Looking at his lifestyle, he found that ...
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can't imagine, to make a
woman stay in a burning house; . . .You don't stay for nothing." The woman makes
Montag think about books and about his lifestyle. Montag feels guilty for having
killed a woman, for not making her save herself. His opinion of books changes.
There must be something important in books to make a woman deny her right to
live. He wonders if what he is doing is correct. Montag learns the power of the
meaning in the books.
Montag changes again when he meets the old man that he met in the park a
year ago. The old man was Faber, a retired English Professor, who acts as a
guide to Montag, guiding him in the right way. Montag felt that he should
consult Faber, for he ...
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