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...ender object. An ordinary kitchen match. (39). This is when he realizes that is something more to these books and there most be something good inside. Bradbury wrote the women knelt among the books, touching the drenched leather cardboard, reading the gilt titles with her fingers while her eyes accused Montag. “You can’t ever have my books,” she said. (38). When she says this Montag does not realize that he is actually taking what is good away from society, but leaving what is horrible for it. Meeting Clarisse changes him very much because she asks him many questions about his life that he does not understand himself. Clarisse asked “Are you happy?” (10). As she asked him this question he became very puzzled and confused because he as never been asked to think about anything. Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never question that pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames…never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. (Back cover). This is very true because he has always felt that he has done the right thing, but strangely he may not be. Clarisse said, “Strange. I heard once that a long time houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.” (8). This affects Montag the most because he has never heard of such a strange thing firemen putting out fires in a society where they start fires. When he kills Beatty it affects him the most because Beatty wanted to die, so he actually helped him. Beatty said, “I want you to do this job all by your lonesome, Montag. Not with kerosene and a match, but piece work, with a flame thrower. Your house, your clean up.” (116). This affects Montag because he realizes the very man who has been burn...