Fahrenheit 451 - Clarisse

Clarisse, or the little girl as I usually call her. Anyways Clarisse is the young girl who Guy meets on his way home one night. She begins to talk to Guy, at first it seems like Guy is going to simply brush her away like a fly. But she keeps pestering him, she asks questions which in her mind are innocent but disturb Guy greatly. She asks the seemingly innocent question of whether Guy knew there was dew in the morning and Guy had to honestly answer to himself that he could not remember if he had known that. For some reason this really bothers Guy. For several more days Clarisse is their when Guy comes home. Every day she talks to him about what seems like innocent things and facts. Like that her uncle told her that billboards used to only be 20 feet and not two hundred but because cars had become a lot faster and people were driving faster they had to stretch billboards to two hundred feet so people could read them. Guy is also rather disturbed by this even though he can not quite figure out why he is. Sometimes he would see her just sitting down enjoying the day, other times he would see her knitting or even playing with trees. Then some nights she would leave him some walnuts or other nights she would leave him a bouquet of flowers at his front porch. Guy finds all these things odd as he has always been taught to go go go in life and never to stop and appreciate the little things. As Clarisse helps him appreciate the little things more and more he realizes how unsettled his life and work are beginning to really make him. Clarisse does a lot of more important things than just show Guy the little things. In my next blog post I will talk about how her death impacted Guy the most of all the factors leading to him living with hobos.