The Main Characters

*Who are the main characters in the novel? Do you like them? Why or why not? What is special about them? what do thery reveal about the universla humana experience?
There are Guy Montag, Clarisse McClellan, Mildred Montag, Captain Beatty, Faber, and Granger. Although the book was quite confusing for me (and somtimes boring), because this book had a lot of interesting characters, it drew my attention.
To talk about each character, Montag is a person who has a job as a fireman and as a fireman, his job is to burn books. Montag enjoys burning books and feels very proud of him before he gets to meet this girl who seems to be living in totally different place, Clarisse McClellan. After meeting Clarisse, Montag continuously asks himself if he is happy of how he is living. The chance of meeting Clarisse makes Montag totally different person and he really starts to “think” and “question” about everything that is happening around him. As the book continues, you could notice that he tries to find why people started to burn book and eagers to learn about books. During his journey, he notices that he is living in a wrong position where you are not allowed to read books which make him want to change the world’s mind of thinking about books. I really enjoy looking at how Montag starts to change his life. His personality of trying to find something is so adventures which makes me really interesting to Montag. Also, it was interesting that Montag and I had so different personality of thinking about books when I dislike about books and Montag is extremely eager to read book. In Montag’s life, Clarisse is a very special person to Montga for she completely changed his mind. These days, it actually seems like books are not doing its worth, for many children and teenagers enjoy doing Internet and computer rather than reading books. This book will be a great book for those people who has no interest in books!
As I have mentioned Clarisse McClellan before, she is a beautiful girl who is a unique person that changes Montag's mind. She experiences differnet things such as sticking out her tongue for rain and asking to Montag if he is happy. You can see that Clarisse seems to be living in a very different place from where Montag is living. When the relationship between Montag and his wife are very gloomy, Clarisse and her family always laugh with happiness which makes Montag want to know about that family more. Unfortunately, in the book, Clarisse does not appear, though she was my favorite character among the other characters. Because she had a differnet point-of-view of thinking about books and all those things, I was really interested in her. The way how she talks and acts are ridiculous but unique in an attractive way. One thing that dissapointed me about this book was that Clarisse wasn't mentioned in the book later. I feel that it would have been more interesting if Montag and Clarisse worked out together from saving books!
To be honest, there is no such interesting thing about Mildred Montag who is the wife of Guy Montag. Her daily life is to watch T.V, sleep, and take pills. She didn't really care of what Montag thought about but she was also proud of her husband's job. When Mildred first found out that Montag was hiding a book from Beatty Captain, she feels very anxious and anger about it. I actually didn't really like Mildred for there was nothing typically interesting about her, but it was fun to read the part when she tried to let Montag stop from reading books. I felt really bad for Montag when she ditched him and called the fireman to their house so that they can burn the books. I think that Mildred represents as nowdays teenagers who has no interest in books but live with T.V. It was wierd because it seemed like Mildred and I had a similar personlity!
Captain Beatty, who is the captain of the firemen. He is a person who tries to block Montag from getting interested in books. Eventhough Captain Beatty explains all the history of firemen and how books started to be burned, Montag simply has no interest to it. It also seemed Captian Beatty was reading Montag's mind the whole time. I like this character for he is the character who distracts Montag form getting closer to the book. For me, the whole fun of reading book it to see how the bad person tries to annoy the good and kind person. Captain Beatty represents the computer,T.V, and the internet that tries to make teengers get far from books.
Faber, the character who's job was professor is a character who helps Montag from reading books and understand it. He is also a man like Montag, who loves books and wants to know more about it. I wasn't quite interested in this character for it was so obvious that there will be a character "helping" the main character from reaching the goal. But I liked the calm personality of Faber unlike Captain Beatty. Oh! it was also interesting when Faber and Montag planned and discussed about their plan.
Finally, for the last main character of this book, Granger! Granger is a character that Montag met when he escaped from the place where everybody was trying to arrest him. Montag also gets to meet this group of people where people share their memories of books and save it into their head. These group of people's whole hope is to write books again after the war ends. I didn't like that much with Granger for he came out in the book for a short time. But it was an interesting group, for they have this memories of books and share it which made it seemed to be a right group for Montag. This group of people including Faber, can be represented as people who enjoy reading books. Because it is more common to find people who enjoy wathcing television than reading books; therefore, I think it made this group more interesting!!