"It was a pleasure to burn,"(pg 3) says Montag at the beginning of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. At first Montag is convinced that burning books and making sure people don't read is how things are supposed to be. Towards the middle of the book he meets a young girl named Clarisse. She is free-spirited, and strange compared to the world around her. She shakes Montag up, and causes him to have mixed feelings about weather or not he is satisfied with his life, and if he should be a fireman. At the end he is convinced and sure of his decision that burning books is not right. He is determined to change the way his town lives. Montag goes through three phases of character development, which are: burning books is good, then he questions himself, third he is sure that being a fireman is not for him, and books should be read.…
