Beatty converses at great length with Montag and tells him that every fireman gets the itch to read a book at some point in his career. Somehow, Beatty knows that Montag is keeping a book, and he is interested in reading it. Montag decides to call in sick to work the next day, but he is surprised by a visit from Beatty. During their conversation, Montag discovers from Millie that Clarisse was killed in an automobile accident. ![]() Later the same night, Montag tries to discuss the day with Millie, but she is not interested in what he has to say. The home, along with the old woman and her books, is set aflame, but not before Montag steals one of the books. Montag urges the woman to leave the house because the entire home will be destroyed, but she refuses to leave her precious books. The firemen race to her home and begin destroying the contraband. One day at the fire station, the firemen receive a call that an old woman has stashed books in her house. She points out that their world used to be an entirely different world, one where pictures showed actual people and people talked about important things. During one of his final conversations with Clarisse, Montag learns that she fears the violence in her peers. Several days pass since Montag's last meeting with Clarisse. Because of this brief encounter, Montag realizes that the Hound doesn't like him, a point that he quickly points out to his fellow fireman, Captain Beatty. He enters the fire station and immediately encounters the Mechanical Hound, who actually growls at him. On his way to work, Montag again encounters Clarisse and is left pondering things like the taste of rain and what dandelions represent. Montag, though frustrated and confused about what happened the previous night, heads off to work. She avoids Montag's questions and instead focuses on the new script she has received for an interactive television program. The next morning, Montag attempts to discuss what happened the night before, but his wife is uninterested in any type of discussion. He calls the emergency squad, and the strangers come with their machine to save his wife. He discovers that his wife Mildred (Millie), whether intentionally or unintentionally, has overdosed on the pills. Montag enters his bedroom to find an empty bottle of sleeping pills lying on the floor next to his bed. Upon entering his home, however, her image is quickly erased. Her inquisitive nature fascinates him because she ponders things such as happiness, love, and, more importantly, the contents of the books that he burns.Īt first, Montag tries to ignore her questions, but on the rest of his walk home, he cannot get the young girl out of his mind. She is young, pretty, and energetic, but more importantly, she converses with him about things that he has never considered. Clarisse is the antithesis of anyone Montag has ever met. ![]() Montag, a fireman who destroys books for a living, is walking home from work one day when the young Clarisse approaches him and introduces herself. The story begins with an inciting incident in which Montag meets Clarisse McClellan. Ray Bradbury introduces this new world through the character Guy Montag, the protagonist, during a short time in his life. The people live in a world with no reminders of history or appreciation of the past the population receives the present from television. Books are considered evil because they make people question and think. The fireman is now seen as a flamethrower, a destroyer of books rather than an insurance against fire. Television has replaced the common perception of family. The individual is not accepted and the intellectual is considered an outlaw. ![]() Set in the twenty-fourth century, Fahrenheit 451 introduces a new world in which control of the masses by the media, overpopulation, and censorship has taken over the general population.
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