The hero of Fahrenheit 451 is Guy Montag. Guy changes throughout the book. He starts as
a somewhat cowardly, quiet and rule abiding man. After he meets Clarisse, his
true traits show. Guy becomes brave and outgoing. The novel begins with him
doing his job like every other day, and then going home and listening and
obeying his wife (Bradbury 20). Later he
steals books, stands up to his boss, and does what he thinks is right (Bradbury
122). Guy Montag showed the public that if you want to read books and learn new
things you didn’t even know existed, then you should. He managed to stand up
for what he believes in and manage o escape the consequences of what he had to
do to get to that point. Obviously no one really wants to kill another person
to get what they want and in no case should they, but once again it was on over
exaggeration on Bradbury’s part to get his point across. Guy is portrayed in the
book as a bad gut to the public, but to us he seems like a hero. The government, or the officials in charge of
the novel’s setting, sends out to everyone in the town to alert and warn them
(Bradbury 124). Bradbury presents the story to the reader so they may choose their
side of Guy’s defense, hero or villain. Guy’s story represents s the abstract
idea of knowledge. He tells the story of knowledge because if you really want
to know something, you have to work to learn something if you really want to
know about it. He also represents the
idea of truth. The people were lied to and they didn’t know any better. It only
takes one person to break the lie and reveal the truth. Guy was the person, and
even though maybe one person rrealizes, its more than before.
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