Friday, August 1, 2014

In the novel of Fahrenheit 451, how do the characters, Clarisse, Faber, the unidentified woman, and Granger influence Montag? Use quotes.I NEED...

Montag is heavily influenced by each one of those
characters.


Clarisse: Just
talking with Clarisse stimulates Montag's thought processes.  She is honest and
straightforward and Montag says he can see himself in her eyes.  "How rarely did other
people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost
trembling thought?" (pg 11) She makes him aware that he never stops to think.  He tells
Mildred that Clarisse was "the first person I can remember who looked straight at me as
if I counted."( pg 72) She starts his
transformation.


Faber: Montag
actually met Faber before he met Clarisse. On page 10 Montag thinks that he hasn't had
such a strange experience (Clarisse) since the night he met an old man in the park. 
That old man was Faber. When Montag realizes that he wants to read books, he thinks"But
where do you get help, where do you find a teacher this late?" (pg 74)  Faber is that
teacher.  After he talks with Faber he knew that he was two men: Montag who knew nothing
and Faber who would educate him through his earpiece.  He would be Montag + Faber and he
would become a fine "wine" or a better, educated
person.


Unidentified Woman:
This woman had a tremendous impact on Montag.  She stayed in her burning
house  and burned with her books.  It made Montag realize "There must be something in
books, things we can't imagine to make a woman stay in a burning house, there must be
something there.  You don't stay for nothing." (pg 51).  He also realized that "It took
some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world
and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over." (pg 52) The
night Montag saw this woman die with her books was the last night that Montag burned
books.


Granger: Granger
totally changes Montag's plans for fighting the system.  When Montag and Faber planned
to rebel, they were going to run off some books, plant them in firemen's homes, and then
burn the homes.  They were going to make the firemen look treasonous and try to close
the firestations.  Granger has a different plan.  Each person memorizes a
separate book.  "All we want to do is keep the knowledge we think we will need intact
and safe.  We're not out to incite or anger anyone yet. for if we are destroyed, the
knowledge is dead, perhaps for good." (pg 152) He knows that they cannot save all the
books or even memorize two books.  Each man is responsible for the information in one
book.  He calls the men "nothing but dust jackets for books" (pg
153)


The pages may not be exact depending on the edition of
the book you are reading.  However, the information will be found in the immediate
vicinity.

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