Fahrenheit 451 Pg. 138-154

1. Write one or more questions that you have. Don't just say "I don't get it." Ask a specific question about what is happening in the story.

I have absolutly no questions. The book has been very crisp and straight forwards for me

2. How has Montag changed from the beginning of the novel to this part? In writing about this you might want to notice that the environment has changed from the city to nature. Is this a coincidence or is the author trying to say something by contrasting the city to nature in relation to the ways Montag has changed.

Reflecting back it is really interesting to think about how much Montag has changed since the start. In the beginning of the book Montag was just another ordinary brainless fool in a society that eliminates un-ordinary people. This all changed when he first met Clairesse that in a way "showed him the way" the way out of the cave that his society had thrown him in and shut the enterence, this was a cave that next to nobody ever climbed out of to simply ask the question "why?". Once Montag started asking questions he realized that his world was just a bunch of meaningless lies that were set in place to keep the majority (and minority) happy and ignorant. Montag's curiostiy grew when he discovered that some people were willing to die for books, he realized that these books must be the key to the front way out of the cave. Montag starts to become more and more daring and less law-abiding. When Captain Beatty finds out about his unhealthy reading habit he intends to put an end to it after Mildred phones in a report. This is when Montag realizes that books were in fact worth dying for. He put his life on the line when he made the decision to kill Beatty.

A very interesting change during this period was Montag's sudden care for others and their well-being rather than his own safety. "'Wait. There's no use you being discovered. When I leave, burn the spread of this bed that I touched...'" Montag realized that he was the one that got in this mess and was able to stand up to the consiquence. This was a dramatic change from the beginnning of the book where Montag wouldn't have gave a damn about what happend to Faber after he was safely gone.

I do not think that the city vs. nature connection was made as a coincidence. The city background reveals a more human controlled area of his life in which he was built on a foundation that society had laid out for him. In nature Montag is able to make his own decisions and fully function as a human being without the mind-numbing technological advancements that were put in place to kill the brain and throw constant happiness at it in which thinking is not required.