Identity and modernization are impacting the world, fiction or nonfiction. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Montag the main character comes into conflict with many characters when he begins to question what everyone else accepts. Clarisse, a peculiar teenager, opens his eyes to this new way of thinking, which causes him problems, but which for him is the best thing. In the story Fahrenheit 451 the character Montag struggles with technology and modernization along with identity, he struggles with these because he is not sure who he is, there are too many distractions that do not allow him to understand who he is, and no one will tell him what he really is happening in the world of government behind living room walls and other distractions. First, identity will come into play many times with Montag's struggles in this book. Clarisse says, "'You're one of the few who puts up with me. That's why I think it's so strange that you're a firefighter, it just doesn't seem right to you, somehow.' He felt his body split into heat and coldness, softness and hardness, trembling and non-trembling, the two halves rubbing against each other” (Bradbury 23-24). She makes him open his eyes a little at their first meeting, and more and more each time. When she dies, I think it finally hits him that there are things happening in this world that the government purposely doesn't want them to see. After seeing the Mechanical Hound, Montag asks, "All the chemical balances and percentages of all of us here in the house are recorded in the master file downstairs. It would be easy for someone to set a partial combination into the Hound's memory," One touch of amino acids, perhaps. This would explain what the animal did just now. Rea...middle of the paper...didn't force her to do it, like the death of her old husband cry.Montag struggles with identity, technology and modernization because he doesn't know who he is as a person or in what he should believe, the noise the government makes doesn't let him think and no one tells him what's really happening in the world behind the distractions. Montag really all he wants to do is come to terms with himself, and when it does he becomes truly happy, not the kind of happy Mildred pretends to be with her "family" in the living room walls, but the kind of happiness that comes from deep human relationships. Substance is what truly makes people happy, the laughter that comes from a human relationship, and the joy of reading a good book is what separates humans from mindless robots. Works Cited Bradbury, Ray. "Fahrenheit 451." New York: Simon & Schuster Paperback 2013.