... is submissive and controllable, while technology is predatory and threatening" (114). Throughout Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag goes through significant changes. "In the course of [Fahrenheit 451] Montag goes from book-burner to living-book" (Johnson 86). At the beginning of the novel, Montag is a fireman. "Whereas, in our society, a Flaster 3 fireman extinguishes fires, in Bradbury's a fireman extinguishes books. He destroys them ... with fire" (Colmer 109). The firemen go to people's houses where there are reports of books and set the books and the people inside ablaze. Throughout the sto...

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