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How Does Montag Change In Fahrenheit 451

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Curiosity is a strange idea that can hold the mind hostage until a puzzle is solved. What a person finds can change his or her life forever. In Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, the main character, Guy Montag, goes through numerous stages of curiosity throughout the book. He meets a man, Faber, who strikes his interest in books; then Clarisse, who began to give him a completely new perspective of the world; and when she died he made the biggest change in his life. In the end, Montag’s life has been completely made new. So, a great theme would be that curiosity has restored a person’s life. Montag starts his journey towards his new life when he meets Faber in a park year before the story takes place. “... he remembered …show more content…

“ ‘You are an odd one,’ he said looking at her… ‘You think too many things,’ said Montag uneasily,” taken from Fahrenheit 451 on pg. 12 and pg. 13. She knows it as well. When they were first walking past her house together, Montag notes all the lights being on and how it's not normal to him. She responds, “Oh, just my mother and father and uncle sitting around, talking… Oh, we're most peculiar.” Montag brings it up several times throughout their few weeks of knowing one another, and she makes him start thinking. Something he’s starting to realize, from her, that most people have seemed to stop doing. No one simply sits around and thinks anymore. “No front porches. My uncle says there used to be front porches, And people sat there sometimes at night… Sometimes they just sat there and thought about things, turned things over. My uncle says the architects got rid of the front porches… the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn’t want people sitting like that… People talked too much. And they had time to think.” taken from Fahrenheit 451 on pg. 67 when Montag is thinking back to a conversation they

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