Faber (Fahrenheit 451)

Faber (Fahrenheit 451)

Faber is a main character in Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel, "Fahrenheit 451". Faber was named after a brand of pencil, Eberhard Faber, or Faber-Castell.

He was a professor forty years before the time of the book when the last liberal arts college shut down, and is against the firemen, who burn books in order to keep the status quo. He meets and befriends Guy Montag, the novel's protagonist, at a park, and helps him come up with a plan to eliminate the firemen. He called himself a coward, as he stayed inside his home, talking to no one, instead of doing anything against the firemen.

He assists Montag during his sabotage of the firemen by giving Montag a small, green, bullet like bug that allows Faber and Montag to stay in contact, which they use to communicate. Before Montag escapes from the city, Faber helps to break the trail of the Mechanical Hound, the robot the police had set to find and kill Montag by removing Montag's scent from his apartment. He tells Montag that he will be escaping as well, although at the end of the book, a nuclear bomb destroys the city, and Faber's fate is uncertain.


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