Her strange observations cause him to consider things he would never have before. He sees himself as "dark and tiny" (Bradbury 7) in her eyes
It drank up the green matter that flowed to the top in the a slow boil. Other pumped all the blood from the body and replaced it with fresh blood" (Bradbury 14-15)
He believes the Bible to be a collection of stories created to build a belief system people would follow through out time. He does not believe these stories to be the word of God as did not directly deliver the Bible to the church but used an agent to instill enthusiasm (Paine 6)
Clarisse serves as a mirror too Montage in that he begins to see things he would not have otherwise seen as the result of being with her. Through her perspective, he begins to picture himself as "dark and tiny" (Bradbury 7)
He works as a fireman; however instead of putting out fires he sets fire to books and houses that contain books. "While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning" (Bradbury, 33)
He has a persistent uneasy feeling that life is not what it should be that manifest themselves through his journal writing, which is strictly forbidden, "…Winston saw that he had left the diary open on the table. 'DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER' was written all over it…" (Orwell, 20)
Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time." (Bradbury) The masses have been instructed with regard to the attitudes they need to employ in order to make it possible for society to be 'perfect'
"Those who read, putting themselves at the risk of change or of independent thought, are regarded as criminals and sentenced to mental hospitals -- or killed." (Jones 279) It appears that society upholds the idea that the world people are living in is a perfect place and ideas from the past might have a negative effect on this respective environment
Now overgrown with plant life and strewn with rubble, these tracks remind of us of a time that was -- or, perhaps, that never really was, but which we wanted it to be." (Roberts 28) The author seems determined to emphasize the connection between people wanting to embrace change and the attitudes they need to take on during the process