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That girl
Montag bumps in to a girl named Clarisse Mc Clellan he gets impres with her thinking of life for her age. After talking to Clarisse, Montag cant stop thinking of what Clarisse told him. -
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fahrenheit 451
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That night
when Montag gets home he reliz that her wife has taken thirty or so sleeping pills. He calls in the emergency and reliz that the doctors look more like plumber than doctors. The next morning, Montag is shocked to find that his wife remembers nothing from the night before. -
knowing her more
Motage gets to know more about Clarisse, he reliz that she is intrigued by her and thinks her older and wiser than those his own age, including his wife. -
The misterios
The alarm goes off and the men rush to a big house with a woman out front quoting Hugh Latimer. Inside, Montag grabs a book before the place is burned.
That night, Montag hides the book under his pillow. -
The confusion
The next morning Guy is feeling ill and wants his wife to call in sick for him. She won’t. They argue Montag doesn’t want to be a fireman anymore, and she thinks this is ridiculous.
Captain Beatty comes to visit Montag. He explains that all firemen go through crises like this one. He admits that the rule book is lying and explains how and why their occupation exists.Montag doesn’t say much. After Beatty is gone, he tries talking to Mildred about his unhappiness, He makes Mildred read with him. -
interested in books
Montag flips out and decides he needs a teacher. He remembers meeting Faber in the park one day and decides the old man will do just fine.
Guy calls Faber, but the man is reluctant to talk over the phone. Montag takes his copy of the Bible and heads over there in person.Once Montag is at Faber’s, the old man explains to him that books themselves aren’t important, but the information they contain is. -
the move ment
Together the men plot how to bring down the system. They talk about destroying the firemen structure from the inside by planting books in the firemen’s houses. Faber commits to contacting a friend of his who used to print books. He also gives Montag a two-way radio for his ear.
That night, Montag has to deal with his wife’s insipid friends. He reads them some poetry out loud, and they run away crying and angry. -
Montag burns his house
That night at the firehouse, Beatty taunts Montag with contradictory quotes from literature before driving them all to the site of an alarm: Montag’s house.
Montag burns his own house.
Montag burns Beatty. -
The escape!
Montag burns the Mechanical Hound, but not before getting stabbed in the leg by its needle.
Montag limps, then runs like hell.
After planting a book at a fellow fireman’s house, Guy is nearly hit by a car.
At Faber’s house, he watches his own pursuit on TV and leaves for the river with Faber’s smelly old clothes to mask his personal scent from the Mechanical Hound. -
The tree life
Along with the campfire, he finds the book people, the leader of which is a guy named Granger. Granger explains to Montag who they are.
Very early in the morning, the city is destroyed by bombs. In the aftermath, Guy recalls a passage from the Book of Ecclesiastes and readies himself to rebuild and create, a la the tree of life.
