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The evolution of Guy Montag from apathy (or pleasure only) to the ability to feel again
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The evolution of Guy Montag from apathy (or pleasure only) to the ability to feel again
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At the beginning of Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is portrayed as an emotionless man
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He seems to not have a single care about anything in the world, including the tragedy around him
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TEXTUAL EVIDENCE OFTHE EVOLUTION
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Some would even consider him psychopathic... As Montag stares into a blazing fire, Bradbury writes..
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"grinned the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame." (pg. 2)
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Clarisse's death is what triggered Montags drastic change.
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Montag had stolen a book and brought it to professor Faber, he told him what happened with clarisse.
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the professor explained to guy he was a...
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..."hopeless romantic"?!? He told Guy that he isnt interested in the book but...
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"some of the things that once were in the books"(pg. 78)
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Guy then sees what is happening to his home, how it's being bombed, raided...
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he remembers...
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"Montag lying there...gasping and crying... I remember, I remember, I remember" (pg. 153)
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Surely this could not be the same Protagonist from the beginning?
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Fahrenheit 451, Mentally apathetic Guy Montag, now, emotionally flooded.
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the evolution of Guy Montag from apathy or pleasure only
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to the ability to feel again At the beginning of
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Guy Montag is portrayed as
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an emotionless man.
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He seems to not have a single care about anything
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in the world, including the tragedy around him.
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Textual evidence of the evolution supplied by Ray Bradbury.
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Some would consider him psychopathic, brave bribery, right?
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Says Montag stairs into a blazing fire, grinned the fierce
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grin of all men singed and driven back by flame.
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Clarisse, a dear friend of Guy Montag from the very
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beginning of Fahrenheit 451 unfortunately dies.
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Her death is what triggered.
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Mon tax change.
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Montag had stolen the book and brought it to Professor
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favor. He told him what had happened with Clarice.
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The Professor explained a guy.
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He was hopeless romantic, he told guy, but he isn't
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interested in the book itself, but rather some of the
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things that once were in the books.
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Guy then sees what has happened to his home, how
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it's being bombed rated, burnt down an attempt to destroy
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these books.
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Suddenly he remembers Mon Tag lying there gasping and crying.
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I remember, I remember, I remember surely this could not
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be the same protagonist from the beginning, Fahrenheit 451, mentally
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apathetic Guy, Montag now emotionally flooded
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