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Mildred tries to commit suicide
Montag comes home to find that his wife, Mildred, had tried to commit suicide and had overdosed on 30 capsules of sleeping pills. Montag calls the "Emergency hospital", and two men show up with machines that clean both the stomach and the blood.This saves her and she forgets the whole event. -
Montag meets Clarisse
Meeting Clarisse was what changed Montag's view on his world. Without her, he never would have questioned his life or wondered about books or what they contained. -
The Mechanical Hound
The Mechanical hound greatly dislikes Montag and growls at him when Montag touched its muzzle. -
Clarisse tells Montag about school
Clarisse explains to Montag as to why she's antisocial and doesn't like going to school. She tells Montag of how her classmates kill each and how she has lost many of her friends in shootings and car wrecks just in the past year. Montag starts to see serious flaws in society. -
Clarisse disappears.
After many days of enjoying Clarisse's company, Montag feels lonely without her. His daily routine has been disturbed, and her disappearance makes him suspicious. -
Montag steals a book
Montag's curiousity about books has finally gotten the best of him so he steals a book from a lady's house that is about to be burned. -
Montag watches woman burn
After being alerted, the firemen show up as usual to burn the books, but this time the woman won't leave her books behind. Instead she lights her own match and burns along with her books. This memory sticks with Montag and has a large effect on him. -
Clarisse Dead?
Mildread tells Montag that Clarisse was hit by a car and died, also that her family has moved away. -
Montag is sick
After watching the old woman burn with her books, Montag begins to feel ill from guilt and confusion. So for the first time ever he doesn't go to work. -
Beatty comes to visit
Captin Beatty realizes that something is wrong with Montag and comes to visit. He comes to try and reassure Montag of his place, but Montag is still unswayed which suprises Beatty. Beatty also explains to Montag wy books are burned and why the job description of the fireman changed -
Mildred finds the stolen book
During Beatty's visit, Mildred goes to fix Montag's pillow and finds the book that he stole from the deceased lady's house. -
Montag shows Mildred his hidden book stash
Montag reveals to Mildred his stash of books that he has collected over the years and hidden in the air-conditioning vent above the front door. -
Montag looks for Faber
Montag decides that he needs a teacher. He remembers the professor he met in the park the year before named Faber. Montag contacts him and at first Faber feels as if he's being set up. But after Montag takes his copy of the Bible to Faber's house, Faber realizes that he is serious. -
True Importance of Books
Faber explains to Montag that it is the information inside of the books that is important bot the books themselves. -
A Plan
The men plot how to bring down the system. They talk about destroying the firemen structure by planting books in the firemen’s houses. Faber promises to contact a friend of his who used to print books. He also gives Montag a two-way radio for his ear. -
Mrs. Bowles and Mrs. Phelps
Mildred's friends make Montag angry, so he reads them some poetry out loud, and they run away crying and angry. -
Burn Burn Burn
Montag's house is burned. Montag kills and burns Beatty. Montag burns the mechanical hound, but first he is struck by its needle. -
Montag's House
That night when Montag gets to the fire house, Beatty uses quotes from literature to make Montag feel guilty and make accusations. When the alert sounds, they head off to the sight: Montag's house. -
Fleeing from the Mechanical Hound
After stopping at Faber's house, Montag heads for the river wearing Faber's clothes to mask his smell. -
River People
After exiting the river, Montag finds other literate people whose leader, Granger, states Montag may join their group if he has something to offer, in which he quotes a scripture from the Bible. -
Carrying out the Plan
After planting books in a fellow fireman's house and calling the authorities, Montag nearly gets hit by car. If he hadn't fell down he would have been killed. This realization reinforces Montag's new view of the flawed society. -
Create and Rebuild
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.