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The first sentence in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is “It was a pleasure to burn.” As a fireman, Montag loved to burn books. It is was his life and his living. But then he begins to feel that what he is doing is wrong. And then he realizes why burning is wrong, and that everyone is burning, and that it is destroying the world. This sentence explains Montag’s mentality before he starts keeping books, before he meets Clarisse, before things start to change; and it explains the mentality of the society in which he lives. The last sentence reads “For noon… When we reach the city.” This is what Montag thinks after he remembers a verse from Ecclesiastes and decides that it is the verse he wants to share with the people he finds once they make it to the city. He has taken upon himself the objective of Granger and all the other humanitarian individualists since the beginning of time. He is going to the city, and he, with his miniscule amount of knowledge, is going to try to help the survivors, to give them hope, to redeem the human race. Montag is no longer a burner; through his acquisition of knowledge, he has become a builder. My favorite character in the novel is Clarisse McClellan. I think that she is extremely intriguing because she is such a perceptive, independent pariah. I like that she notices all the details, in everything, and that she reads people and reads them accurately. She is very intelligent, although she does quite poorly in school, and is really observant. She is so old for her age, and yet, more full of life than anyone else in the novel. She is undeniably different, from everyone her age, and from everyone in the society in which she lives. Although Montag was already beginning to sense an inaccuracy in his occupation, Clarisse is the one who transforms his suspicions into realizations.
Approximate Word count = 1238
Approximate Pages = 5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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