How do people change? Do they change through experience? Do they change by advice? Whatever the reason, characters in books develop differently such as Huckleberry Finn, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Guy Montag, in Fahrenheit 451.
Huckleberry Finn started off as a low class, typical, southern boy in the 1800’s with a drunken dad, and a widow who was trying to “reform” him. His father then took him to his cottage in southern Illinois, where he was locked up. After Huckleberry escaped, his views began to change thanks to Jim, a runaway slave who he was friends with before he left for his father’s cabin. He begins to realize that slavery isn’t right and figures that sometimes you have to go upstream and against the flow. It’s the same thing with Guy Montag from Fahrenheit 451.
Guy Montag is a fireman in the future, except his job isn’t to put out fires, it’s to start them. He’s always enjoyed going on midnight raids, burning houses, watching the dancing flames consume the house, but it isn’t until he meets a teenage girl named Clarisse that he learns that sometimes, you need to stop and think. He begins to try this and it helps him throughout his chaotic life.
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