Fahrenheit 451-Q. 4

The hero in this book is obviously Montag, because he is the only main character, but I feel that this books hero isn't so much a hero as a detective. In this book the only heroic thing Montag does is outrun the cops in order to learn more and be able to comprehend books like we do. And even that isn't all that heroic as his choice on the outcome of his life.

The harder Montag would work on trying to learn how to read, the closer he would be to failing and going to prison for his life or quite possibly death since he killed one fireman, knocked out a couple others, and destroyed the mechanical robotic dog they called the Hound, which they could use for many different miscellaneous things. Some of them included search and rescue, some included finding books, but most of the time they used the Hound to sniff out someones chemical compound and kill them by injecting anesthesia into their body making them get loopy. If enough is injected then the person can die. Fortunately for Montag, in his first physical encounter as a fugitive he is only nicked by the power of the Hound. If Mondag didn't have his flame thrower handy he would have been dead before he could have learned how to understand books. If Montag hadn't yelled at his wife earlier in the night of his disappearance he wouldn't have had to run. And it would have been smarter if Montag had agreed with the fire marshal about how much of a waste of time books are instead of raising suspicion about what is going on in Montag's house.

I think that Montag should have collected a larger number of books before going to the leader at the fire station so he could have put on a fake burning of the books with a bunch of junk old ones no one will ever want to read. All in all, Montag was a good hero, but he was more of an adventurer than anything else. I found him brave doing all of those things.

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