Farenhiet 451
...ful”, but one night when he goes for a walk he encounters Clarisse McClellan, a nonconformist of society. She loves to embrace life for all it has to offer, and to experience things herself, instead of watching them on the parlor walls, large interactive televisions that take up an entire wall and one can have as many of them as they do walls. She is not afraid of him, which is unusual, and that intrigues Guy. So Guy talks to her, which is highly unusual in this society, on several occasions when they meet. She asks him a question that causes him to think and makes him experience things that one in this society normally would not. Clarisse asks Guy a question that seems to initiate his change, “Are you happy?” (P10) “Am I what? He cried.” (P10) “Happy! Of all the nonsense” (P10) is how he answered her question, but later to himself he thinks “ Of course I’m Happy…What does she think? I’m not?” That was the beginning of the end. The new beginning of life for Guy Montag, “The Sieve and the Sand.” He realizes that he really is not happy, but he doesn’t know why, and becomes perplexed soul. That is what generates his interest to learn. What is within books, what causes them to be illegal? Those are the questions that he sets out to answer so he is no longer a confused person of society. Naturally it gives him a desire to read, but he also does not want to because he is still in the process of converting out of the mold that society formed him in. Therefore he starts to read, but exceptionally modestly at first, for fear of getting caught and having everything he owned burnt, eaten, to see his things blackened and changed, but one day when Mildred, his wife, invited over company to watch television he go so frustrated from trying to start a conversation that he lost it. He read a poem out loud, “Dover Beach”, and one started crying and another got really upset. Later he realized what he had done and tried to correct it, but Mildred did it before he could, she told them that since he is a fireman that he is aloud to do that once a year, and of course he followed along. Guy reads but he lacks the ability of comprehension, what knowledge they contain in those thin sheets of paper? So he discreetly seeks the help of a man named Faber, an old English Professor, so he can more clearly understand what is in books. “Burning Bright” is exactly as it seems, Montag’s worst nightmare, or is it really? Montag at this point is no longer considered a law-abiding citizen, he reads books frequently and owns not just a couple, but a private library! He doesn’t go to work as frequently as he used to. He learned that he just cannot start reading to just anyone, because if they are not interested than they might tell on him. When he goes back to work he has a conversation with his boss Beatty, ...