Fahrenheit 451-Montag

Montag was a unique character that enjoyed the spontaneous events. He would go for walks outside always being curious of the world around him. He would think of things the city didn't want him to think about and always acted a little different.

I would say Montag's personal role model would be Clarrisse because she always would walk and talk with him, more advanced than he at thinking about stuff. She was always wondering different things and usually would break rules in order to figure out what it was like. Since they both always wondered they were both great role models for each other. When Clarrisse died, Montag had no one to turn to and was very lonesome in the world until he decided to steal some books and run away to save his life with the police. When he killed Betty (his fire marshal) he knew he was going to be punished severely. After being on the run for quite a while he finds a group of men he stops and talks to and eventually becomes friends with. They give him a special drink that gives him a new genetic code so the dog "Hound" cannot sniff him out and kill him. Then they say they were expecting him and are carriers of books too. Unlike Montag they have memorized many parts of them and have them stored in their brains. This is so a book like the bible is completely wiped off the face of the earth they can eventually regroup and write a new copy to be printed and distributed to the communities and people so that religion can be apart of their everyday lives again. I found this very interesting and a unique idea that Bradbury had when it came to finding a way to store books before they were burned if they were burned so that more copies could be made. I liked the idea of thousands of people having to come together in an upraise in order to put the full bible back together.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine, 1953. Print.