Answer to Question #309479 in English for Kelsey Jand

Question

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Study Guide

Directions: Answer these study guide questions as you read with as much depth as possible. Doing so will force you to stop and think about what is happening in the story and why. These notes are a more structured form of annotation. 

Chronological Reading Comprehension Questions:

Describe Montag and his characteristics, according to the tone and imagery in the very first passage. What inconsistencies and ironies are present? What does Montag do for a living? Describe his life at work. How does Montag feel about his job at the beginning of the novel?

Answer 1

Guy Montag, a thirty-year-old fireman in the twenty-fourth century (remember, the novel was written in the early 1950s), is introduced in the first half of Fahrenheit 451. "It was a delight to burn," Montag says. All books were required to be burned by the authorities. Montag begins as a disgruntled but largely contented fireman, but as he learns the cost of a world without books, he grows progressively disenchanted with his society.