Fahrenheit 451 - Montag

In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury the main character is Montag. Montag is a firefighter, but no ordinary firefighter we know of. The firefighters in their society do just the oposite of what they do in ours, they start fires. Montage, just like almost all other firefighters look pretty much the same, with black hair and brows, ashe-smeared cheeks and closely shaven face. Although the main goal of firefighters is to destroy books after meeting Clarise and talking to her and listening to her talk about why stuff is the way it is and how firefighters used to prevent fires and not start them made Montag begin to question their work. "just how would it feel. I mean to have firemen burn our houses and our books"(Pg. 31).

When Montage and Clarise are talking Clarise says. "You're very peculiar yourself, Mr. Montag, sometimes I even forget you're a fireman."(Pg. 21). Clarise points out here that Montag is not like most other fireman because she keeps forgetting sometimes that he is a fireman when that is a big thing. Clarise changed Montag from the very begging because I think that Montag is starting to question what he is doing as a fireman and why they are buring peoples books and how it would feel if other people came to your house and began to burn it down and burn your books. I dont think that Montag is very satisfied with his life at this stage because he is not sure about his job and Clarise has opened his eyes to the society around him.