Fahrenheit 451 - Guy

Guy Montag is the main character of the story. Guy is a fireman. That is, he starts fires rather than putting them out. Guy burns books the people keep illegally. In the beginning of the book Guy was very content with his life, at least he thought he was. He meets a young girl who changes his whole outlook on life. I think Guy was meant to represent how society has become more concerned about making good time rather than helping others. As our world becomes more and more advanced we find our selves becoming more and more distant from our fellow human beings. Guy represents those ideas. He has been going through life happy and contented until one day he realizes that life is going to fast. He has become to worried about keeping up with the Joneses as the sayng go. All he cares about is working until he can buy that new gadget he simply must have. Just like his young friend was saying there is a difference between socializing and really talking to people. When you socialize all you do is talk about the petty and unimportant things. Though when you talk to someone you shares your thought and feeling and you discuss things. Guy had been going through life just socializing that is until his little friend showed him the right way. Throughout the book we see as Guy begins to question his job and even his own place in the world. Deciding that books are a tool for expanding the mind not for burning. He decides that he no longer wants to lead the same life he has been ashamed off. Form that point on Guy is a changed person, he begins to see the atrocities in every day life. See how wrong people have become. Finally Guy is on the path to true enlightenment when he meets the hobos. Guy grows as a characters and becomes someone we can relate to in the book.