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In this quote Claries and Montage are walking down the street and Claries is asking questions that tie into Montage’s beliefs and his personal life, she basically Just raying to get to know him and what kind of person he is. Muff know the law,” said Beauty. “Where’s your common sense? None of these books agree with each other. You’ve been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of It! The people In the books never lived. ” (Page 48) This quote was a very Important part of the book, this was quoted from the fire captain; Captain Beauty.
He was talking to the woman who had books In her home and was refusing to leave because she would rather die than have no books. This quote was an example of conformity because Captain Beauty was acting exactly how he was programmed” to act. Just like the rest of his society he tried to tell the woman that she was crazy for trying to die instead of getting rid of her books. He even went as far as “The people in the books never lived,” he said that because he tried discouraging her from taking her life for something he thought was “worthless. “My uncle drove slowly on a highway once. He drove forty miles an hour and they jailed him for two days. ” (Page 23) This quote Is a very good example of Individuality because It shows Just how far their society would go Just to stay In conformity. The quote Is from a conversation between Guy Montage and Claries McClellan, the person who is talking is Claries. She was talking about how her uncle was jailed for driving slow, normally in this society driving fast is the “norm” and driving slow is shunned upon.
Her uncle showed Individuality by driving slow, the society obviously doesn’t want anybody to be different or stand out, and so they jailed him. “Montage felt the hidden book pound like a heart against his chest. ” (Page 48) This quote is where I feel Montage curiosity and intellectuality sparked. Montage starting eating curious about the books, he saw the woman die rather than give her books away. He thought to himself, what’s so good about books that people would die for them? He grabbed the book from the woman’s house out of curiosity. This quote In my pollen was the start of him changing.
That one night changed Montage and his “How in the hell did those get up there every second of our lives! Why doesn’t anybody want to talk about it? Is it because we’re having so much fun at home we’ve forgotten the world? Is it because we’re so rich and the rest of the world’s so poor and we Just don’t care if they are? Page 75) I really liked this quote because it showed an extremely different side of Montage, that we have never seen before. He starts questioning and noticing things that he and everyone else really didn’t pay attention to.
He starts getting curious, and also very angry at the fact why nobody has ever wondered about those bomber planes flying “every second” of their lives. In the quote he is talking to his wife; Mildred. He seems very angry, and I believe this adds on to his quickly-changing personality. “Shut up, shut up, shut up! ” It was a plea, a cry so terrible that Montage found himself n his feet, the shocked inhabitants of the loud car staring, moving from this man with the insane, gorged face, the gibbering, dry mouth, the flapping book in his fist. (Page 80) This quote is kind of strange to me, from the context it seems like Montage is going crazy! He is going to meet someone at their house and he has to take a train there, and he’s sitting there listening to this commercial and he Just loses it. He goes insane, he starts yelling and causing all this commotion, but before anybody can deal with him he gets at his destination. In the beginning of the book he would ever act out like this, especially in public. You can see that he is gradually changing in this part of the book. He sees the world for what it is, and has a different perspective then his peers. Foe took all the pills in your bottle last night. ” ‘Oh I wouldn’t do that,’ she said, surprised. “The bottle was empty. ” ‘l wouldn’t do a thing like that. Why would I do a thing like that? ” she asked. (Page 32) This quote actually explained a lot about how people in Fahrenheit 451 considered life and death. In this quote, Mildred overdosed on her sleeping pill and tried to commit suicide. That Just goes to show people in heir society didn’t cherish life. After all that she denied it, she said she would never do such a thing like that.
It was clear that on the surface she seemed like everything was fine, but deep in her heart, she was hurt. She was hurt by something too strong to put into words; she would rather take her own life rather than confront what is wrong with her. “She’s dead. Let’s talk about someone alive, for goodness’s sake. ” (Page 74) This quote was very straightforward and extremely short. This was said by Mildred, the “she” that Mildred was referring to was Claries McClellan. A few parts before, Montage had Just found out that Claries had died. He was shocked to say the least.