Essay for Fahrenheit Clarisse

     Ray Bradbury for the most part is able to put his tone on all of his characters, some easily distinguishable while others you have to stick together using the very few hints he leaves in order for the reader to piece together. The ones where Bradbury is able to put the most detail in a character are the ones that he can put the most of his ideas/beliefs and although the opposite he puts a lot of detail into beliefs that he doesn't agree with. This may not make sense in that a person puts a large amount of detail into something he doesn't believe in but this is important to Bradbury. He is able to learn why people think in these beliefs and can come up with counters when they bring it up. One person who is like this in the books is Beatty who is the ideas that Bradbury doesn't agree with. While the other person who has the beliefs that Bradbury agrees with is Clarisse, who isn't in the book for a long time but is able to be a big part for Montag.
     Clarisse is a character that at first would seem like a normal character seen in a lot of books, she is able to talk to Montag and strike up what is seen as normal conversation. Later on in the book though Bradbury is able to establish why she is in the book. Throughout the beginning of the book, the reader is able to see that the world in Fahrenheit 451 isn't like out world and instead people don't have a real connection to the people around them and to themselves. They instead have a "family" on wall sized TVs that they spend time with. Clarisse on the other is talks to everyone and says that everyone calls her crazy since she talks to people and socializes with them. The world in the books states that the schools consider her "anti-social" since she always wants to talk to people even thought she is actually the direct opposite of being anti-social but is deemed as this since kids in her school just stay quiet and do whatever they are told to do without asking questions. Clarisse on the other hand is always curious on how the world works and always asks questions in order to get a better understanding on why people do certain things like why Montag burns books and even he doesn't know why except that he is told to burn them. Bradbury puts this in the book because he wants people to be curios about the world and ask questions no matter how small or large they can be. At the end, Clarisse is a character that is the embodiment of Bradbury's beliefs.
     As for Beatty, he is the beliefs that Bradbury doesn't agree with inside a character. Beatty is Montag's boss who is against books and people like Clarisse and Montag who have their own thought and say whatever they want. Beatty through out the story is not talked about much but when he does show up he is described with a lot of detail. Bradbury makes Beatty not very likeable throughout the book. Beatty states that if someone doesn't like something then they should get rid of it, this seems good at first since it will make everyone happy it seems but the actual affects is that it makes people try to kill themselves since they don't have anything to really talk about to other people since they can't share their opinion to other people since they can't think by themselves and instead have people boss them around. Bradbury always wanted people to let their people to talk about anything they want to talk to each other and ask questions which is what Beatty is against and tries to stop. In summary, Beatty is the beliefs that Bradbury thinks is wrong to him.
     Overall throughout the entire book we see what Bradbury establishes is good and what is bad according to him by using character we see as good throughout the book and also the ones we see as bad in the book. Bradbury is able to use direct and indirect characterization in the book to get a better understanding of these characters, which helps the reader get a better understanding of these two characters. Clarisse is seen in the book as what someone should be according to Bradbury and also Beatty, who is someone that Bradbury sets up to be what people shouldn't be.