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Clarisse
Guy Montag heads home after work and bumps into Clarisse McClellan, who introduces herself and her alternative approach to life. -
The Dandelion
•He walks outside and encounters Clarisse, who encourages him to taste the rain and informs him that, according to her dandelion, he is not in love. -
The True History of Firemen
While playing cards at the firehouse, Guy asks if firemen used to put out fires, as Clarisse claimed earlier. He uses the phrase “once upon a time,” which he once glimpsed in a book once before he burned it. -
Montag hides a book at home
Montag hides a book instad of burning it, and stays in his house for the next few days, disillusioned about his career. 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. -
Guy and Faber, conspirators against the system
•Once Montag is at Faber’s, the old man explains to him that books themselves aren’t important, but the information they contain is.
•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. -
Guy escapes society
•Montag burns his own house, burns Beatty, and burns the Mechanical Hound, but not before getting stabbed in the leg by its needle. Limping, Montag escapes to Faber's house. -
Guy makes it into the wild
Guy bathes, and changes into Faber's clothes, heads into the woods, and floats down the river. He encounters a "freindly fire" that doesn't destroy anything. It is a bonfire used by the book readers. They enlighten Guy, and welcome him into thier society. -
"Civilization is Destroyed"
Guy wakes up early the next morning to see the Hydrogen bombs destroying the city. He vows to rebuild a better soeity in it's wake.