In Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag meets a young girl named Clarisse McClellan.
Clarisse sets off a chain reaction and starts to change Montag's beliefs. Now, Clarisse is the person that starts all of this, but doesn't keep it going on throughout the book. There are other things that cause Montag to change his beliefs. Such as an old woman that didn't want to be separated from her books, so just burned with them instead. Also, Montag started to see that what the fireman and himself were doing wasn't right, as he started to wake up and see what was going on. Overall, Guy Montag develops a new perspective of things throughout Fahrenheit 451.
First, a young girl named Clarisse McClellan starts to change Guy Montag's perspective.
"'Are you happy?' she said" "'Happy! Of all nonsense"( Bradbury 10). Montag starts to wonder if he really is happy, and not in a melancholy-like state of mind."'Have you ever heard of rubbing …show more content…
All of these people have read a book and memorized most of it through a method that didn't seem to take that long. Granger and his group are now called a certain book because they have a great profusion of knowledge about that particular book than everybody else. Even though Montag only knew these people for a short period of time, he still learned a lot from them, just from the way they said things. Granger had said stuff that made Montag wonder different things and realize things about himself that were never realized beforehand. "If anything should happen to Harris, you are the Book of Ecclesiastes. See how important you've become in the last minute!" ( Bradbury 151). In my opinion this could possibly make Montag want to become full of good knowledge to spread to other people later on. Guy Montag has learned a lot from Granger and his friends by just listening to what they are