Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Question 1- Fahrenheit 451

*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, Clarisse McClellan, Mildred, and Beatty. Guy Montag is the protagonist of the story. To me, Guy Montag is a very confusing character. Throughout the whole story, I couldn't really relate to his thoughts or actions. He enjoyed burning books, he had "joy of watching pages consumed by flames." He was one who never questioned anything, someone who "went with the flow." Yet towards the end of the story, Guy starts to question everything, he wonders why things have to be this way. This made me find an interest in him. He became one of the few who I felt was "human". Clarisse McClellan was a seventeen year old girl,

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