As we are reading the book Fahrenheit 451, the book is about two main characters. The two main characters are Guy Montag and Clarisse McClellan. Guy Montag is a 30 year old firefighter who starts fires I steady of preventing them for a living. Clarisse McClellan is a 17 year old girl who is known for being crazy in a society like theirs. Montag and Clarisse have become good friends in part 1, she makes him realize things he never really paid to.
From Part 1, I have learned that is very illegal to own and read books because it leads to curiosity, ideas, and thinking which could lead to essentially living unhappily. In this society firemen start fires instead of putting them out. Books are looked as happiness destroyers. Clarisse and Montag start up friendship, these two are not like everyone else. These two are thinkers. Everyone else are like robots who are programed to be happy on demand.
Clarisse talks to Montag about how things were in the past and all her talking intrigues him because in that world it seemed out of the norm. One evening she leaves Montag questioning his own happiness, which he wasn't. Clarisse in a way lit a spark of curiosity in him, questioning the ways of the government now. Towards the end of part 1, after he witnesses the death of the old women Montag starts to realize that books hold so much worth. He ended up stealing a book.
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