Ray Bradbury made an amazing book called Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury's book was about a man, Montag, who was a "fireman" who started fires instead of setting them off. He burnt books and he's always enjoyed doing it. As the story ascends, Montag changes entirely. He goes from hating them to loving them, and all that happened because of Clarisse.
Clarisse was different from anyone else in the book, she was curious. In the book, she's always asked questions and had full on conversations. As we can see, Mildred is nothing like that. Mildred only wants to watch her clothes or end her life. Ray Bradbury didn't have her in the book for long, but she impacted Montag. She made him open his mind and made him realize how important books were. There's a nothing person who was different, that's Beatty.
Beatty was different from everyone else, since he's older, he knows how things were when books were around. I kinda feel like he didn't play such a big role, but I'm sure he was suspicious of Montag. He somehow knew Montag was curious of books, which is why he visited him when Montag wanted to call in sick. I think Bradbury did this to show how people you're around aren't always the best, like how Beatty wanted to get the hound on Montag.
Both characters played a role, Clarisse was an inspiration and Beatty was like the bad guy. Both knew about books and how they changed things, but they each went a different path about showing it, Clarisse expressed herself and Beatty wanted them gone. I feel like Montag looked up to both at the beginning but his views were different after the bombing.
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