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On the way home from work as a fireman, Montag meets the neighbor girl Clarisse
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She explores the world, which is unfamiliar to him. He is drawn in by her different perspectives on everything,
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His wife overdoses on drugs because she is unhappy with her technoology-filled life.
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There is no real affection in their relationship.
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Montag finds out that she died.
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Beatty confesses the true history of their career, and explains that all firemen go through times like this. (doubting their occupation, etc.)
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She is openly unhappy about this.
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He chooses a teacher he met once in the park, Faber.
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Montag brings his Bible and Faber explains that books are disposable, but the knowledge they contain is not.
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He blows up and reads them some poetry, and all leave upset.
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Beatty taunts him with literature, then they drive over.
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Faber aids him in an escape to a nearby river. After floating down it for some time, he meets "book people" with a campfire.
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