Montag and Jerry are the same character in many ways even though they are in two different books they faced a similar struggle of what is right vs what is wrong in society. First, Man vs Society in this Both Jerry and Montag both went against a society either it be the vigil’s or Captain Beatty and the rest of society. Second,Alone in their struggle jerry is contemplating about selling the chocolates and defying archie and the vigils and montag is contemplating on either just burning everything that society goes against or doesn't want anymore and going with Captain Beatty. Going against what society says is right Jerry went against the vigils by not selling the chocolates which everyone else in the school was doing and the vigils made it seem …show more content…
Montag went against Captain Beatty and Society and kept burning the things that were apparently wrong to society they also burned books that society didn’t like he also had to burn the books that society deemed wrong But one house that he was about to burn he found a book and it revealed the truth to him that society was wrong that they just burned whatever they disliked or got rid of whatever they didn’t want anymore also he refused to conform to the dictates of the society around him a society that is beholden to the directives of the totalitarian government that ruled over him and society. Third, Jerry and Montag both went against what was society and they kept fighting society as much as they could but Jerry got beaten up by a bunch of kids one time after school and then the vigils had put jerry against Janza to make an example of out him Montag Had to burn his own house down, leave society,and had to kill Captain Beatty. Both of their lives changed Jerry’s mom died and his dad was just going through the motions of his life come home make dinner and then just went to sleep . Montag’s wife Mildred overdosed on pills almost ever night and just watch scripted tv that she thought she was in she thought she was in her own world and left montag after turning him in for scaring her friends with a