You Are Guy Montag

You are Guy Montag. -As you begin to ask questions about the world in which you live, you will begin to experience an intellectual awakening, thinking for yourself and making decisions for yourself for the first time. -You were once a thoughtless conformist, someone who did exactly what they were supposed to and were very obedient to the rules of your society. -Nobody in your life seems to be an “intellectual.” -You really are just an everyday “guy,” but the adventure you will take helps us understand that change is possible for anyone.

You are Mildred Montag -You are Guy Montag’s wife. -You are a timid, mentally numb drab. -You are fascinated by the vague, unreal vision of happiness that can only be found on television, which you NEVER stop watching. -Your near-death experience, the result of an overdose of drugs designed to make you happy, help us understand just how unhappy people in your society, really are.

You are teenage girl, Clarisse McClellan. -You are an anomaly in the city, someone who doesn’t fit in at all. -You are very curious about the world around you, especially the natural world, and you like to think about things in a very philosophical way. -Your perspectives on life create many questions for your neighbor, Guy Montag, and cause him to feel uncertainty about his world and the meaning of life. -You are a very sunny, happy person who sees beauty in the world, but your words and actions make others very uncomfortable.

You are former English professor, Faber. -You are a loner who hardly leaves his house. -You reluctantly become an accomplice of Guy’s, helping him understand himself and the true power of books. -You are fearful, cautious, and determined.

You are the fire department’s Captain Beatty, Guy’s boss. -You are a bit of a bad guy. -You were once very interested in books, feeling the same questions and uncertainty experienced by Guy. -However, you rejected the ideas of reflection and critique as evils that produce nothing but confusion and weakness, and so you have embraced the destruction of books. -You help us understand the fearsome power of the state.

You are Granger -You are the leader of an underground resistance society of intellectuals. -You and your friends form a “living library” of memorized books. -You have abandoned the state and live a nomadic existence in the woods outside the cities.