Who are the main characters in the novel?Do you like them? Why or why not? What is special about them?What do they reveal about the universal human experience?
The main characters in Fahrenheit 451 are Guy Montag and Professor Faber because they are the main two characters who try to make changes. First of all, Guy Montag is a fireman who burns all the books and the houses of people in an unknown society. He has a wife named Mildred Montag who tried to commit suicide several times. She likes to watch TV and talk with her friends. She does not like to talk with her husband about his hope to read books and cause a revolution, or how they met before they got married. She has no hope about anything in her life. As I just said, Montag has a hope to change the world by disobeying what the government wants people to do; they were prohibited to read books and gain knowledge. How could he, as a fireman, try to read books instead of burning them? One day, he heard an alarm and went off to burn a house and the books just like usual. What was different was that the old lady resisted leaving her books; she wanted to rather get burned with her books. Firemen burnt the house, the books, and the old lady as well. Montag was shocked as he was seeing the old lady, burning with her books, desperate for something. Burning the woman was not it. Montag met a young, beautiful girl named Clarisse McClellan who brings Montag into a totally different world of thinking and looking at the truth and the nature. She teaches Montag how to love, enjoy, and have emotions. The acquaintance with the two ladies let Montag’s thinking change and that’s when the real story starts. However I personally do not like Montag’s personality though because he is too sanguine and sentimental. On the other hand, Faber is the opposite, so the two do not fit each other very well. Still, they worked things out step by step and carried out their plans so I was actually pretty impressed. Their different ways of thinking then the others in their society are what makes them special. Even though Montag made a few mistakes because of his “too-sentimental” emotions sometimes, he knew what’s right and never gave up his hope - at this moment, I wanted to complement him. Montag taught me a great lesson, to never give up. There’s a story about a man who always succeeds in finding gold in a mine. The difference in him than other workers was that he never gave up, and that was why he never failed in finding gold. Just like this man and Montag, we should all never give up because there is always going to be a reward for us if we keep trying. Moreover, people today should search for the truth and what’s deep down in our minds just like the man who always succeeds in searching gold.
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