Fahrenheit 451 #7

The tone in the novel Fahrenheit 451 changed throughout the course of the novel. At the beginning, Guy Montag acts like he is happy. We are led to believe he is happy. It is said that he loves his job, he enjoys to burn stuff, and he get pleasure from it. On his way home Guy Montag meets his new neighbor, Clairsse. She questions he actually happiness. He believes he is happy but he soon realizes that is all a faced he puts on for the public. After she asks this question, the tone of the book starts to go down fast. When Guy walks into his house, it is pitch dark. He is running into stuff and he trips over his wife empty pill bottle and realizes that she has overdosed on drugs. This takes the happy tone waaaay down. It does because his wife was trying to commit suicide. This makes their relationship weird, though the next day she denies that she did anything wrong. When Guy is on a call one day, he is starting a fire and there is an old lady in the attic that will not leave her books. He dies with them. This changes the tone to depressing because Guy becomes sick and he skips work. I found out that he stole a book and he is trying to read it. This lightens the tone because it shows that he is trying to steer away from the path and become different and decide to read a book though it is illegal. When he does go to work he talks to his chief. The chief takes Guy to his home because Mildred called in that Guy had books in the house and was reading them. This changes the tone dramatically because Guy was betrayed by his own wife and he was forced to burn down his own house. Guy ran away and he found a group of nomads. When he found them, the tone changed in a good way because they were trying to change the world back to normal also.