Character Analysis

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Character Analysis

• Guy Montag
• as a
• Changing Character

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Writers use characterization to develop how the
character looks, acts, and thinks. A dynamic
character changes in the course of a novel.
Oftentimes, authors create dynamic characters to
reveal the effects of society on the characters
development as a human being.
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In this exercise, you define Montags initial
stage of character development before he changes.
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Clarisses Question Montags Response What is Revealed?
Does (kerosene) seem like (perfume), really? p. 6 Of course. Why not? This reveals that he has never considered his comparison of the smell of kerosene to perfumes as anything other than normal.
How long have you worked as a fireman?
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?
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Why are you laughing?
Have you ever watched the jet cars racing on the boulevard down that way?
Are you happy?
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Have you seen the two hundred-foot-long billboards in the country beyond town? Did you know that once billboards were only twenty feet long? But cars started rushing by so quickly that had to stretch the advertising out so it would last.
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(My uncle) drove forty miles an hour and they jailed him for two days. Isnt that funny, and sad, too?