Trust

AN: This is the final response essay to Fahrenheit 451.

As you are waiting for your best friend to come as they had promised earlier that day, you know that it is not right but you have decided to do it anyway. This, this is what you stand for and no one will stop you from accomplishing this task, well unless your best friend doesn't show, then and only then could this possibly go awry. The task that the two of you must complete is menacing and so intricate as to the only way to fully comprehend it is to go through with it. Although if caught the consequences could be deadly and most definitely the results would be lasting and would not work if anyone but you or your friend saw this task before it is finished. Then you hear sirens in the distance and only hope that they are not after you. The sirens stop and you gasp for air still trembling with fear, you think that you are safe until the red and blue flashing lights come into sight. Those you trust cannot always be counted on but without the connection to them it drives you insane.

Montag is married to Mildred. In marriage people trust their spouse with their life and every part of it there is nothing that is left a secret, nothing that they cannot trust the other person to keep a secret. By marrying Mildred, Montag proves that he trusts her with his life and everything that he has. Mildred is and was the most trusted person in Montag's life. Even though it seems as though Mildred wouldn't be the person Guy trusted the most as they do not even sleep in the same room. It even seems like Guy would trust Clarisse more just from the context during their first conversation. Guy trust Mildred with everything yet as he meets and talks to the other characters more that bond between Guy and Mildred seems to be weakening. The people are never what they seem, and in Fahrenheit 451 what should be accurate in the real world is completely different here.

With the bond slowly disappearing between Guy and Mildred, different bonds are formed with both Clarisse and Faber. When Guy is with Clarisse he opens up and he contemplates with things that he never thought possible. Montag realizes that Clarisse is "different" after just a few brief moments of speaking with her. In this case, different isn't necessarily good or bad, it is in fact just meaning out of the ordinary. Clarisse talks about the past and asks questions that pull Guy out of his comfort zone. Right away it seems as though both of the two thrust their full trust onto each others shoulder and that they can really open up to one another. Then, Montag's relationship with Faber is full of friendship and trust. Faber and Montag trust each other enough to discuss things that are illegal in this dystopic world that Bradbury created, in this case they speak about books and the past. All three of the most important people to Montag all have something that separates them from the other two.

The three most important people in Montag's life are Mildred, Faber, and Clarisse. Mildred starts to lose his trust after she finds the book that Guy stole from one of the houses they were to burn. When Mildred finds it she automatically reports it to the firemen. Clarisse is killed early on when she was run over by a car but that didn't mean that even after she was gone that what she said to Guy when he was living wasn't taken to heart and didn't stay with him to the end. When Clarisse was still living everything that she said to Montag made him reflect back upon everything he has done with his life and whether he did it because it was right or someone told him to. Faber was always there for him to talk to and confide in especially when he wanted to know more about how the world used to be before this government sort of took over. In the end they are all gone, Mildred and Faber were in the city as it blew up and Clarisse was run over. Guy is left alone without the connection to these people and he goes insane to the point where he'd be better off dead.

The lights are turned off and you are surrounded by a dozen of burly looking cops. Each and everyone of them with some type of weapon pointed at you. Slowly you raise your hands to above your head having no other choices; there is no where to run and no where to hide. Then behind them you see someone step out of one of the police cars, your best friend. A puzzled expression comes to your face as your friend is not in handcuffs and steps out of the car of his own free will. Great you think how does this work; then it comes to you. He turned you in, the person you trusted with your life stabbed you in the back and is gone, in the sense of not being able to trust him any longer. Although in your heart you know that he did the right thing and you will always keep him there to remind you that, the trust my have been lost but the connection that keeps you sane will still be there for you.