Emotions In Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451'

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People feel different emotions everyday. Montag in “ Fahrenheit 451” feels countless emotions throughout the book. Different things affect people differently daily, like if your last grade when down just a bit before the end of the year one may look at it negatively and feel sad about it and another may look at it and say wow I ended that on a good note. It's all about how you look at it and feel it. One emotion Montag felt in the end of the book is tired, he was fed up with the rules and didn't want to follow them anymore. He was curious about why books had been illegal and experimented around and ended up liking them. He told his wife Mildred he had the books, little did he know it would get him in trouble. “ Mildred, of course she must have watched him {montag} hide the books in the garden…” (P. 109). Beatty said every firman …show more content…
Guy Montag rebelled against the no book law and fought it till he couldn't anymore. He was feeling crazy and rebellious at this time. “ I am alive for the first time in years” (p. 125). He finally felt he had broken away from the social “norm” and was for once his own person, had no one to speak for him and could do what he wanted when he wanted. At the very end of the book Montag felt calm, and slightly depressed. He had felt calm because of the river he floated down and thought long and hard about what had been happening in the last 24 hours. “The hound was gone. Now there was only the cold river and Montag floating in a sudden peacefulness, away from the city, away from the lights, away from everything”(p. 133). Montag had not a care in the world. He was depressed only when he had begun to think about Clarisse and Mildred and Faber, what would or has happened to them and how everything went so bad so quickly. During the entirety of the book you can see montag grow more and more curious about the books and why they had such an effect on the lady who burned with