Conflict- Fahrenheit 451

The conflict that Guy had to deal with was whether to keep on the track with society and burn the books or go the other way and go against the society and do not burn the books. The conflict in this book was internal because the character had to deal with his inside forces. The causes of this conflict is just the fact that Guy was seeing all these people watching their books go up in flames. He also had to watch an old woman burn with her house just so she could stay with her books. Also just him thinking of what life would be like with books. He could have such a better life with books than without. I mean if you see somebody who burns with books just so she can be with them, that has a pretty strong meaning especially to Guy.

The gains in this book were he was able to be on his own without anybody else telling him what to do. He was able to think on his own and be independent. Also he was able to think outside the box and not do what society told him to do.

With all these gains their were a lot of losses that came with this conflict. When Guy turned on society he was able to think on his own, but he also lost his job because the firemen found out about how he had books hidden in his closet and backyard. He also lost his wife which was a very important loss because then he knew that he could not trust her anymore. Another loss is he became a criminal. After burning Captain Beatty, Guy became a criminal to society. It is funny how Guy was one of the firemen who everybody thought he was great and then he burns his own captain. Guy had turned from being with society to being against it just from this one conflict. When Bradbury says, "all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him" (Bradbury 119). This shows that Guy had changed so much that he turned a flamethrower on his superior and burned him to a crisp. The conflict in this story had a lot of causes, gains, and losses that Guy had to deal with in order to survive.

Bibliography

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Print.