Fahrenheit 451 Question 4

            Every book has a hero.  At least every book I have read has had a hero.  In The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks, Thibault saved Beth’s son, Ben from the raging currents of a river.  Just like The Lucky One, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, has a hero too.  The hero is Guy Montag, even though he does not really act like one.  He is a firefighter who does just the opposite of what the normal firefighter does. He starts fires instead of extinguishing them.  Guy Montag felt calmed by the sight of books burning because that was what he knew.  Books were bad.

            One day, the group of firefighters were called to Mrs. Blake’s home to burn it down.  She was hiding books in her home, which a very thing.  After she burnt to death because she started the fire herself, he was scarred for life.  He actually stole a book, the Bible which fell on him.  From that moment on, Guy wanted to quit his job.  “’Mildred, how would it be if, well, maybe, I quit my job awhile?’” (Bradbury 51)  He wanted to preserve all the books because they hold important information.  Guy Montag is confused by books and he is overwhelmed by the things he is starting to learn in books.  He turned to Faber for help to understand the meanings of the books he was reading.  Faber used to be a professor.  “’Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go’” (Bradbury 81).  It is sad to see all the books getting burned because I love books and cannot imagine the world without them. 

            Guy Montag represents the abstract idea of almost evil.  I say this because he sets his supervisor on fire and he murders Captain Beatty.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Del Rey Book, 1991. Print.