Life may be confusing to you when your job is to commit arson to any house that has a book in it. At least that's the way it was for Guy Montag.         Guy Montag was a fireman and in the future, a firefighters job wasn't to stop fires, but it was actually to start them. In the future, books were known as bad and shameful and if anyone had possession of a book whether it …showed first 75 words of 413 total…

…showed last 75 words of 413 total…society and its beliefs. "Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" (pg. 8)         Because of this conversation with Clarrise McClellan, his 17 year old next door neighbor, he realizes that he doesn't even understand that the job he is doing is right or wrong. This conversation makes him think about what books really have to offer and that is why he decides to slip a book into his pocket during one of the arsons.