Essay Bradbury
Comp. Lit. 2AB
17 November 2006
As a fireman, Guy Montag's job is to start fires and burn books which influence his views about the importance or reading. Without a book, Guy soon realizes he lives an empty and unhappy life so he tries to find a meaningful way to live. "`Are you happy?' asked Clarisse" (20). The quote in the novel is the most important line in the book because it questions him to think that maybe he wasn't. At first his character is confused but later he'll seek the answers to his problems. "Darkness. He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as the true state of affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was now way of going to knock on her door and asks for it back" (20). This quote show how Guy begins to realize that all along he has been living a meaning less life when he meets Clarisse McClellan, that believes there's more to life than just......
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