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Exposition
Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books in Destopian society in Amewrica. In Montag’s world, firemen start fires rather than putting them out. The people in this society do not read books, enjoy nature, or have meaningful conversations. Instead, they drive very fast, watch excessive amounts of television on walls. -
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Exposition
Montag meets a seventeen-year-old girl named Clarisse McClellan, who gets Montag to realize the injhcompletness of his life. Clarisse is all about nature and interaction. -
Exposition
His wife is not too smart. His wife, Mildred, attempts suicide by swallowing a bottle of sleeping pills. She is taken to the hospital andf is completly healthy when she leaves. Ther next day she remember nothing of what just happened. -
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Rising Action
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Then, when he responds to an alarm that an old woman has a stash of hidden literature, the woman shocks him by choosing to be burned with her books than live without them. -
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Clarisse disapears and Montag has no idea why. He's affecteted by it but he goes on with life. A few days later, his wife tells him that Clarisse has been killed by a speeding car. Montag is furious with Mildred. -
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Montag begins to hate the way he lives more and more. He begins toread his stash of books that he has stolen from his own fires and hidden inside an air-conditioning vent. -
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Montag Deciudes noit to go to work because he feels very ill. His fire chief, Beatty,decides to come to his house. -
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Beatty explains that it’s normal for a fireman to go through a phase of wondering what books have to offer, and he delivers a log spech explaining how books came to be banned in the first place. According to Beatty, special-interest groups and other “minorities” objected to books that offended them. Writers tried to avoid offending anybody. Society as a whole decided to simply burn books rather than permit conflicting opinions. -
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Beatty tells Montag to take twenty-four hours to see if his stolen books contain anything worthwhile and then turn them in for incineration. Montag Starts reading as much as he possibly can in one night. -
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He remembers that he once met a retired English professor named Faber sitting in a park, and he decides to go and meet him to get help to understand what hes reading. He visits Faber, who tells him that what you need is quality, leaisure and apply that to the world. -
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Faber agrees to help Montag with his reading, and they come up with a risky scheme to get people to read books. Faber will contact a printer and begin reproducing books, and Montag will plant books in the homes of firemen. -
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Faber gives him a two-way radio earpiece the “green bullet” so that he can hear what Montag hears and talk to him secretly.Montag goes home, and two of his wife’s friends arrive to watch television. The women anger him with their discussion. He takes out a book of poetry and reads “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold. Faber tries to tell him to stop. -
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The women file a complaint Aginst Montag.Montag goes to the fire station and turns in one of the books to Beatty. Beatty confuses Montag by barraging him with contradictory quotations from books. Beatty does this to show montag that books are too complex, and that they deserve to be incineraded. -
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Suddenly, the alarm sounds, and they rush off to answer the call, they find out that it is actually at Montag’s own house. Mildred gets into a cab to leave Montag and Montag realizes that his own wife has betrayed him. -
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Beatty forces Montag to burn his own house. When he finishes Beatty places him under arrest. When Beatty continues to get Montag upset, Montag turns the flamethrower on and aimes it at Beatty and then burns him to ashes. Montag knocks the other firemen unconscious and runs. -
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The Mechanical Hound pounces and injects Montag’s leg with a dose of anesthetic. Montag destroys it with his flamethrower. He walks off the numbness in his leg and escapes with some books that were hidden in his backyard. He hides these in another fireman’s house and calls in an alarm from a pay phone. -
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Montag goes to Faber’s house. He learns that a new Hound has been put on his trail, along with several helicopters and a television crew. Faber tells Montag that he is leaving for St. Louis to see a retired printer who may be able to help them. Montag gives Faber some money and tells him how to remove Montag’s scent from his house so the Hound will not enter it. Montag then takes some of Faber’s old clothes and runs off toward the river. -
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The whole city watches as the chase on TV. Montag escapes in the river and changes into Faber’s clothes. He drifts downstream into the country. -
Climax
he finds a group of renegade intellectuals “the Book People”. Their leader is a man named Granger, who welcomes him. They are a part of a nationwide network of book lovers who have memorized many great works of literature and philosophy. They hope that they may be of some help to mankind in the aftermath of the war that has just been declared. Montag’s role is to memorize the Book of Ecclesiastes. -
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Faliing Action
Enemy jets appear in the sky and completely obliterate the city with bombs. Montag and his new friends move on to search for survivors and rebuild civilization.