Faber is a former English Professor and still has a passion for books, but he’s too much of a coward to do anything himself. Faber and Beatty both try fight for control of Montag’s mind. Faber gets his way by giving Montag a two-way radio for communication and this helps Montag on his quest to saving books and the knowledge they contain. Montag uses some very unorthodox ways of trying to escape this dystopian society, but he serves as a good character because he has all of the right intentions. With the help of Clarisse and Faber, Montag is able to think and act independently, whereas before he was blindly following whatever the majority of the people would do. Even though on his journey to becoming free and independent, he acted as if was a bad person by killing his captain and planting books in fireman’s houses. Montag is in no way a hero but he is also in no way considered a bad person. Instead, he’s a good person with good intentions but doesn’t follow through well with his