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 the ...
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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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