Farenheit 451

Ray Bradbury catches his readers attention by showing how an everyday thing would be missed if taken away. Reading and books are what he draws our attention to in Fahrenheit 451 he shows how people like Montag start to lose their values of life. He forgets to look around at the amazing world surrounding him and enjoying the small things in life like looking for the man in the moon or tasting the rain. Clarisse is the essence of life and love in this novel and Montag is privileged to find this essence.
Faber was a stepping stone for Montag which helped him to start having a mind of his own and start wondering about what was in the books he was burning. Faber gave Montag the kindling for his fire, he gave him the curiosity and desire to know what was beyond the cover of the book. Faber is also what keeps Montag going after he finds there is no one else to go to for understanding after he lost Clarisse.
Montag realizes that there are more than one fire in this world and finds what they are when he takes the path of Clarisse. There are different types of fire that can give off different types of feelings and different reactions. The fire used to burn books was always very hot and gave an evil feeling to those around. This type of fire was killing the voices of people. The fire that was used to warm the homeless in the woods was welcoming and gave the feeling of secureness. This type of fire was giving Montag the ability to find his voice.
I said that Montag had found the different types of fires when he took "Clarisse's path" because as Montag walked along the railroad tracks he felt as if Clarisse had walked there once before. This may be a way to look differently at Montags journey into the forest away from those that were chasing him. Montag was running from people that wanted to kill him for having a mind of his own, like trying to find the mystery behind the cover of the books. Clarisse was also running from those in the world that wanted her to have a mind like theirs, like going to school and having to do things for someone else and not for yourself. Montag was experiencing new feelings and new things like love and joy and the taste of rain on his tongue. Clarisse was showing him how to find these new things and how to embrace them. Montag in the end was able to find his voice and to find how to carry that voice until he was able to share it but Clarisse had her voice all along and was able to share it they both needed to find a way to get people to take action though.
Fahrenheit 451 was a touching book that opened my eyes to the things in life that we take for granted or maybe that we use too much that make us lose sight of all other things in life.