Wednesday, December 4, 2013
First post about "Fahrenheit 451"
I am responding to the prompt that says "How has a character changed since they were first introduced? What have they done or said thats changed your opinion of them?" The one charcter that has already made a change in the story is Guy Montag. He was introduced at the very beginning of the story as a fireman who puts fire to books and believes he is happy. Later in the first part, he was questioned if he was happy. He replied as if it was a stupid question. Of course he was happy! Then he began to think maybe he wasn't. This is a major change of his thoughts and internal beliefs of what being happy really was. Right after his confrontation with Clarrise, it even says, "Montag shook his head. He looked at a blank wall" (Bradbury 8). This quote shows how he is unsure about what he is supposed to think.
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I agree mat that Montag has clearly changed over time in the book. I think you provided the best example of how Montag isn't happy. Because being happy and always being miserable are completely opposite things. And you did a good job at finding information from the text to prove that by saying that Montag thought in the beginning that he was happy. Then later said that Montag questioned his happiness
ReplyDeleteI also agree with that statement on how Guy is more of a dynamic character and how he is changing as the story goes on.
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