Example Of A Character In Faber's Fahrenheit 451
Another example of a character achieving success in an unexpected way is when Montag grew overwhelmed trying to comprehend his stolen novels, and remembers Faber, an elderly retired English professor he’d met in a park. Montag had only approached Faber for help understanding what was in the books he read, but the encounter led to something much more. Faber informs Montag that people needed what books had to offer: quality of information, the leisure to digest it, and the right to act upon their own individual thinking. Faber and Montag form an alliance, devise a plan to overthrow the society’s pessimistic view on books and learning. "He would be Montag-plus-Faber, fire plus water, and then, one day, after everything had mixed and simmered and