Guy Montag- Fahrenheit 451

It is easily said that Guy Montag is the protagonist in this novel. In this story Guy, at the beginning, thought his life was the best. He had a wife and a great job to go along with that. He was a firefighter, who instead of putting out the fires, they would actually start them. The government instead of liking books and nature, decided they hated nature and books so they would burn every book they could find. Guy was a part of burning these precious books. One day when Guy was on his way to work he saw this beautiful seventeen year old and started to talk to her. He soon realized that she was not like every other person that he ever met. She was different in a way that he thought it was interesting. She would talk about how books were good things, and Guy never thought books as a good thing and then he thought that that could be very well true.

When Bradbury puts in, "They still walked farther and the girl said, Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them" (Bradbury 8). This shows how this girl was very unorthodox during this time. She seemed crazy to everybody else because of the things she said, like liking books, and accepting nature and other things that were banned from doing. Guy Montag liked the ideas that this girl thought of which showed he had a lot of respect especially for being a firemen which was probably one of the worst jobs to have during this period of time. Once he stops talking to Clarisse, he started to like books a lot and wanted to know the real reason as to why they were not able to read books. He started to hide books from everybody which was not good and it got him in big trouble. Throughout this novel, Bradbury portrays Guy as a man who wants to change his life, he wants to renew it. Guy Montag was basically portrayed as the hero in this book.

Bibliography

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