In Fahrenheit 451, identify a problem and solution experienced by Guy Montag in the book.Looking for the problems Montag encounters and the ways he...

Your question seems to refer greatly to the conflict
within the book. One key area for me is the internal conflict Montag suffers through his
thoughts about fire and his work, and how this changes as the novel progresses. At the
very beginning of the book we see Montag's obsession and enjoyment of fire and its
destruction of books:

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It was a pleasure to
burn.

It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see
things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python
spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded i his head, and his
hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and
burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of
history.

These first words of
the novel express Montag's fascination and attraction to burning, interestingly linking
it with power. It is clear that the metaphor used to describe his hands (to a conductor)
shows that burning allows Montag to imagine himself transformed into some kind of artist
- the power to orchestrate the destruction of "the tatters and charcoal ruins of
history" clearly has its attractions to him.

However, the
first burningwe are introduced to in the novel changes Montag's view and sparks off (no
pun intended) the conflict that drives the rest of the novel and his own inner
enlightenment. The woman who willingly burns herself, poignantly quoting Latimer, causes
Montag to question the destruction of books. This also triggers off the battle for
Montag's soul by Beatty and Faber who both attempt to win him over to their point of
view.

After he has escaped the hound, he undergoes a
transformation in his view of fire:

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The fire was gone, then back again, like a
winking eye. He stopped, afraid he might blow the fire out with a single breath. But the
fire was there and he approached warily, from a long way off. It took the better part of
fifteen minutes before he drew very close indeed to it, and then he stood looking at it
from cover. That small motion, the white and red colour, a strange fire because it meant
a different thing to him.

It was not burning. It
was warming.

...He hadn't known fire
could look this way. He had never thought in his life that it could give as well as
take. Even its smell was
different.

This passage marks
the end of the conflict within Montag, when he realises the other properties of fire--to
warm, nurture and protect, rather than simply to destroy. It is this that completes his
process of enlightenment and prepares us for his decision at the end of the novel to
join the group of dissidents and be part of the group that memorises texts rather than
seeks to preserve the actual books themselves.