Author's Note- I thought that in the novel that we read in class it showed a lot of determination, so that's what I immediately knew that I was going to write about.
In my performances lately on the basketball court, there is no way that I am going to get much playing time anymore because of my lack of effort to do anything at all besides jog around and look like a total fool. This time, I am going to try my hardest and give my full effort; this time, I am going to show the coaches what I can do. I have determination, I just need to find it. To have a powerful amount of determination is a great accomplishment in life, and the person that has determination is the person that everybody else envies, and they wish that they had the determination to do even one simple thing with their life; that is exactly what happens with Guy Montag in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
Montag himself before he met Clarisse McClellan had a lot of determination, but he just didn't know it was there. Behind every inch of determination, there is some arrangement of inspiration, so in this novel, Montag's inspiration was Clarisse - she appears one day, and then is gone a couple weeks later. She almost had a ghost-like appearance, but she flowed like a goddess. For Montag having a tragic type life before Clarisse shows up to gradually getting better - but when Clarisse gets 'run over by a car', she was still there with him, and her presence in his head is what announced the needed change in his life.
Just the thought of having my own house burned down seems scary, so I can't even imagine how it must have been for Montag having to set his own home on fire. Beatty is really starting to irritate him, so after all of the pressure that he's been through, he takes the liquid fire and squirts it at Beatty, poisoning him and then he lays there, slowly drifting to his death. The Mechanical Hound soon after takes action and pierces Montag in the leg, making the entire leg go numb. Determination from inside of him comes out to show to the world, and he hops all the way to Faber's house to make the indescribable plan of staying alive and keeping his past with the books intact and not just letting it all go like it's nothing at all important to him, when it actually is.
Having determination is a marvelous skill to have within yourself, and that is just one of the many skills that Montag has in this novel. He pushed through all of the minor issues, and then when the colossal issue of him being wanted all over town came on, he knew what to do because of all of his prior experience with dealing with his own issues himself, and not getting help. When Faber came into plan, he did nothing bad, he just gave Montag some advice and a device to hear each other and what was going on in the situation. Before Montag could do any of these things, he had to have some sort of built up determination, and that is what inspired him to deal with his issues - if only us as humans could do that also.
