Montag is content with his job and his life. He is in an old house with an old furnace; he shoves his marshmallow on a stick in the furnace. Bradbury states, “He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon- winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house.” (Bradbury 1-2) This quote shows that Montag loves to sit in his home and enjoy the burning of the fire. He shows that he has an old soul and doesn’t mind the old pigeon’s wing on the roof dead. Bradbury develops this theme by him picturing the readers mind with saying he was sitting by a furnace shoving a marshmallow on a stick! Montag’s curiosity shows how he leads into new things and learns new things to find the house he is roasting a …show more content…
Montag is curious wondering what could be so special in a burning house. Bradbury expresses, “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house, there must be something there.” (Bradbury 48) This quote has showed me that curiosity can lead you to learn things you may have never known before. Montag is very curious to learning new things. This woman was willing to kill herself in fire because she wanted to get more knowledge out of a book. Montags curiosity can make him discover new things and in the moment he can find out something he didn’t want to know to lead him to