Guy Montag As A Hero In Fahrenheit 451

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In Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag is a hero,he is concerned and cares about others. He cares for Clarisse as if she was his own child or friend. Montag walks Clarisse home, he gets himself home and walks upstairs to go to bed and finds his wife mildred asleep next to an empty bottle of pills ,he calls emergence operator to send people over to flush out her system but as he is making sure she is okay he thinks about Clarisse, “Laughter blew across the moon-colored lawn from the house of clarisse and her father and mother and the uncle who smiled so quietly and so earnestly...Montag moved out through the french windows and crossed the lawn, without even thinking of it.he stood outside of the talking house in the shadows…”he cares for Clarisse more

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