Fahrenheit 451 Timeline

  • Montag meets Clairesse

    Montag meets Clairesse for the first time, and he walks with her on his way home from work.
  • Montags wife overdoses

    Montag comes home from work and finds his wife has taken to many pills so he calls 911 to bring an ambulance.
  • Clairesse dies

    Montag comes home one night, and his wife tells him that Clairesse was hit by a car and she died.
  • Montag steals books

    Montag steals another book from the ladies house and stores it in an air conditioning vent with books that he stole in previous years.
  • Montag is sick

    Montag gets sick and stays home from sork. Then Beatty comes over and tells Montag he has 24 hours to burn the books.
  • Montag reads and memorizes the books

    Montag reads the books so that when he burns them he knows what information was in them and the books won't matter.
  • Montag and Faber

    Montag can't memorize the books so he gets together with his old teacher named Faber, and they decide to print out the books and put them in his co-worker's house's so society will think someting is strange.
  • Beatty burns books

    Montag gives the books to Beatty and she burns them.
  • Montag burns his house

    Montag goes home to find his wife had betrayed him, so he burns his own house.
  • Escaping

    Montag goes to Fabers house and finds out the police and the news team is after them. faber hides his sent, and Montag retreats to the river for safety.
  • New people

    Montag goes down the river for a while, then comes across a railroad track. He folows that to meet new people that read books. Their goal was to bring back literature.
  • The end

    The new people watch as the city is bombed by enemies, then Montag and his crew go in search of survivors, ready to rebuild society.