Fahrenheit 451: How Montag Is Convinced To Change His Mind About Books

Part I of Essay
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is an outlandish novel based on the government brainwashing the United States to prevent the people from thinking for themselves. The government has given the people seashells to put in their ears, that play music all day. The seashells are ....

Part II of Essay
.... also causes him to question the society he is living in. "Clarisse wonders whether Montag is actually happy leading a death-in-life, and Montag quickly realizes that he is not happy when he enters his sterile and fully automatic house" (Zipes 185). Clarisse opens Montag's eyes to a different world, a world full of books and people communicating with each other. In the novel Clarisse asks Montag if he is happy. At first he denies it, but then after thinking about it he changes his mind about the way he looks at his life. "The first phas ....