Predict what will happen to Montag because of this thing he has hidden.
Fahrenheit 451
past Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 Part I: The Hearth and the Salamander Summary
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- Guy Montag is having a proficient time setting things on fire. It'southward his task. He's a fire fighter, and appropriately wearing a fireman's hat with the number 451 engraved on the front.
- Now, past "setting things on fire" what we mean is burning a business firm downwardly. More info to come; stay tuned.
- Back at the burn down station, Montag hangs upward his gear and takes a shower. (Gleefully destroying homes is dirty work.) He slides down the classic fireman pole and heads outside; information technology's about midnight.
- He takes the subway to the station nearest his home and exits to the nighttime street, where he has the same feeling he'due south had for a few nights running: someone has merely been there in the street.
- The someone turns out to exist a immature woman, whom he discovers when he rounds the corner. She's very pale and has dark, shining brown eyes, and is staring at the "salamander" on his arm and the "phoenix disc" on his breast, 2 images on his uniform of creatures associated with fire.
- Anyhow, Montag asks the girl if she'southward his new neighbor, which she is. She introduces herself as Clarisse McClellan, just merely after being spacey and weird almost the fact that Montag is a fireman. She asks to accompany him dwelling house, and Montag agrees.
- As they walk forth together, Montag, despite the perpetual aura of kerosene that hangs most his person, smells strawberries and apricots in the air, which he knows is impossible this fourth dimension of year.
- Clarisse decides to dispense with the small talk and reveals that she is seventeen and crazy. Her favorite activities include walking around and smelling things. And likewise looking at things, like the sunrise. She so informs Montag that she's non afraid of him.
- Montag looks into her dark eyes and sees himself reflected. He senses a certain illumination in her face. (We're distressing, we tin can't brand this less cheesy for y'all.)
- Clarisse wants to know how long Montag has been a fire fighter. Since he was xx, he says, so x years ago. She asks if he's read the books he burns; of form not, he answers, considering that's illegal.
- He and then recites a piddling rhyming ditty in which different authors are burned on different days. Clarisse wants to know if, long agone, firemen actually put out fires instead of starting them.
- No, says Montag. In what kind of silly earth would firemen put out fires?
- Clarisse laughs, is chastised past Montag for not showing respect, and, without segue, she begins talking about the cars that speed down the highway as well quickly to run across the globe around them. (She has time to think about things like that, she explains, because she doesn't appoint in normal, time-wasting activities.)
- We go the sense that the cars really are unreasonably speedy when Clarisse talks almost the two-hundred-long foot billboards. She discusses all the things people miss when they drive past so quickly, like the fact that there's dew on the grass in the morning time.
- Montag admits he hasn't looked in a long fourth dimension.
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- Clarisse explains that she lives with her mother, father, and Uncle. Her uncle is the rebel, information technology seems. He's the ane who tells her about how things used to be. He too gets arrested occasionally for such crimes as…being a pedestrian.
- They've reached their respective houses and Montag says good night. Before they part, Clarisse asks him if he's happy, which he finds to exist obnoxious. She's gone before he can reply.
- Once he enters his house, though, Montag can't milkshake the question. Of course he's happy! Correct…?
- The whole encounter has left a bad taste in his mouth. It was all very strange, he reflects, like this one time he ran into an every bit odd old guy in the park. (Oh, subtle foreshadowing, where would we be without y'all?)
- He besides tin can't stop thinking about Clarisse'southward face, which he finds to be very beautiful. Information technology reminds him of the face up of a clock, illuminated in darkness, "all certainty and knowing."
- So Montag yells at himself for being a moron and pondering such lightheaded matters.
- Just back to her face. It seemed to him like a mirror, reflecting him when he looked in it. We get into some blurry identity business concern here, where Montag can't separate himself from Clarisse.
- He also thinks it's weird that she was but standing in the street like that in the eye of the nighttime, most equally if she were waiting for him…
- Montag goes into his bedroom but doesn't turn on the low-cal. He's not happy. He feels as though he's been wearing a mask, and this Clarisse girl took it and ran away.
- Before he flicks the low-cal switch, Montag stands around in the darkness and wonders what it will look like when he turns on the light. He knows his married woman will be lying on the bed, apartment on her back, that she'll have piffling Seashells in her ears (headphones, we gather) listening to sounds and talk from the radio.
- Montag makes his way to his ain bed (this is similar a 1950s, Lucy and Ricky sleeping accommodation), merely on the fashion he trips on a metal object. He sensed that he was going to trip before he did.
- Rather than turning on the light, Montag merely flicks his lighter to illuminate the room. When he sees his wife, Mildred, she'south pale and her breath is shallow. The object on the floor is a bottle of sleeping pills, which used to have xxx capsules in it and now has goose egg.
- Every bit he stands there in stupor, a serial of jet bombers flies overhead, filling the sky with dissonance and shaking the bedroom. When they're gone, he grabs the phone and dials any is the messed-upwardly hereafter-world version of nine-1-1.
- Two guys evidence up to help with the emergency. They're more like plumbers than doctors, much to Montag'southward dismay. They utilise two machines on his wife, one to suck out her stomach and the other to make clean her blood.
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- They're rather callous and thing-of-fact, and ask Montag for the fifty dollar fee when they're done. When he asks why they didn't ship a medical doctor, the men respond that these cases come ten a night, so they're pretty routine.
- The handymen go out Montag lone with his nonetheless-sleeping wife. He ponders the immensity of the universe and the melancholy of being lone in a earth of strangers.
- Montag goes to the window. It's 2 a.m. He hears the sound of laughter coming from Clarisse's firm. He walks over to their house and stands on the porch, listening to the words of a man he guesses is Clarisse's uncle. This is an age of disposability, the voice says, when homo beings are used and thrown away like napkins.
- Montag moves back to his own firm and falls asleep with the aid of a "sleep lozenge," listening to the sound of the pelting and concluding, "I don't know annihilation anymore."
- The next morning, Montag wakes up to find his married woman Mildred making toast and completely oblivious to last dark'south fiasco, like that whole attempted suicide thing.
- Instead, Mildred wants to talk almost TV. Three walls of their parlour room are apparently fabricated up of large Television screens, which she watches endlessly.
- In this world, TV is interactive. Mildred sent in enough box tops to become a script, and she's meant to stand in the center of the room and read her part of the television evidence.
- She likewise asks nigh getting a fourth Tv wall put in, for two,000 dollars. Montag responds that this is a third of his yearly pay.
- Montag, who has had enough of his insipid spouse, walks outside in the rain. He encounters Clarisse, who is of course trying to grab the pelting drops in her oral cavity.
- She's holding a dandelion and informs Montag that, if you rub the flower nether your chin and your chin turns yellow, information technology ways you're in honey. According to this exam, Clarisse is in love. Montag tries information technology; he is non in love.
- This makes him angry, probably because he'southward married and existence in love is sort of supposed to go hand-in-hand with the rings.
- Clarisse explains that she has to go run across her psychiatrist at present. "They" desire to know why she spends so much time thinking and playing effectually in nature instead of watching Television or engaging in other, equally brainless activities.
- Montag remarks that she seems so much older than his wife, even though Mildred is thirty and she's only seventeen.
- And then she wants to know about how Montag got into his line of work. It's foreign, she thinks, for someone equally open-minded as him to be a firefighter.
- Montag feels his body divide into two halves, which is probably hyperbole-speak for "identity crisis." Clarisse heads out, and he stands around catching the rain in his mouth.
- In the back of the firehouse lies the Mechanical Hound. It tracks its prey by sense of aroma and kills them by lethal injection via its retractable four inch needle. When the firemen go bored, they program it to chase down rats or chickens. (Whatever happened to Monopoly?)
- Montag touches the hound on the head and it starts growling, which freaks him out. He backs away slowly until the hound closes its mechanical eyes again.
- On the other side of the room, three of his coworkers and the Captain are all playing cards together. Montag comments that the hound doesn't like him, simply the Captain counters that a mechanical animate being doesn't have any such emotions.
- Information technology's threatened him more than than one time, Montag replies. What if someone programmed it confronting him? Secretly, he worries about what he has hidden behind the ventilator grill back home (more on this later).
- Captain Beatty makes a joke virtually Montag feeling guilty, which Montag does an all-around horrible job of playing off casually.
- Montag continues to meet Clarisse every twenty-four hours; she always walks him to the corner of his street. He comments that he feels every bit though he's known her for years, and lest we start to think anything sketchy is going on, he insists that she makes him feel like a male parent.
- She wants to know why he doesn't have any children himself, and Montag, embarrassed, explains that his wife never wanted any.
- They keep to chat. Clarisse explains that she doesn't go to school and that they don't miss her there, since she'due south very anti-social anyway. About of the activities in schoolhouse—watching TV, looking at pictures, playing sports—don't seem really social anyhow (y'all never take real conversations with people, she says), so in her opinion she's not missing much.
- Clarisse then reveals the staggering violence prevalent in her world. People are always pain each other, and half-dozen of her friends have been shot in the last twelvemonth, never mind anybody that dies in motorcar wrecks.
- Then she occupies her day by and large past watching. She likes to ride the subway and listen and watch. In doing so, Clarisse has discovered that no one talks about annihilation substantial. Even art is abstruse, though she's heard that sometime in the past art really showed you existent people.
- A week afterwards, Clarisse is gone.
- Playing cards at the firehouse one night, Montag listens to the news on the radio: war may intermission out any moment, it reports.
- Captain Beatty asks him what's incorrect, and Montag wonders if information technology'southward guilt that he'southward feeling.
- He looks effectually the table at the other firemen and realizes that they all look exactly like he does: night hair, unshaven, sunburnt faces. Montag asks aloud what happened to the man last calendar week, whose library they "stock-still."
- Beatty explains that he was taken off to an insane asylum, since "any human being's insane who thinks he tin fool the government and us."
- Montag looks to the typed lists of millions of forbidden books which beautify the walls of the firehouse. Once again he remembers the ventilator grille back habitation and is somehow soothed by it. He begins to respond to Beatty by saying, "Once upon a time," but is interrupted—this is an odd thing to say.
- Montag realizes he fabricated a mistake; at the last fire he glimpsed inside ane of the books they were burning and saw the line "in one case upon a time."
- So he re-words his question. Didn't firemen used to put out fires, he asks, rather than beginning them?
- The other firemen express mirth and show him their rule books, which conspicuously establish that the organization was started in 1790, in the colonies, by Benjamin Franklin. The rules themselves are fairly simple and can exist summed upwardly as "Become. Burn down. Come up back."
- Meanwhile, the alarm goes off and the firemen all rush out of the station house.
- They arrive at a 3-story house and seize a woman who is by no means trying to escape. Standing outside her firm, she repeats the words which Hugh Latimer, a British clergyman, spoke to his friend as they were both being burned every bit heretics: "Play the homo, Main Ridley; nosotros shall this twenty-four hour period light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never exist put out."
- Beatty slaps the woman in the face and insists she tell him where "they" are. Merely he already knows that the books are hidden in the attic, as reported by this woman's neighbour.
- As the firemen scurry into the house, Montag is irritated. He never minded burning books earlier because they were only things, just objects unrelated to people.
- Up in the attic, Montag attacks the books with his flamethrower. Every bit one falls open, he reads a single line: "Fourth dimension has fallen comatose in the afternoon sunshine." (This is from Scottish poet Alexander Smith's Dreamthorp, a collection of essays.)
- Montag'due south hand reaches out and takes the book, hiding information technology inside his jacket. Not Montag—Montag's hand. He believes it acted on its own.
- Exterior the burning business firm, its owner refuses to move. "You tin can't have my books," says the woman. Then she pulls out a match and lights everything on fire, including herself. Meanwhile, Montag wonders why the fire alarms always come at night—perchance considering burn down is more beautiful against the night sky.
- On the way back to the firehouse, Beatty is able to repeat, word for word, what the woman quoted from Hugh Latimer, and explicate its historical source.
- The firemen are so surprised that they drive correct by the firehouse.
- At domicile, Mildred asks annoying questions which Montag ignores while still blaming his mitt for all his earlier deportment. He hides his book under his pillow.
- He climbs into bed and cries himself to sleep.
- Montag wakes up in the eye of the night and sees his wife in her own bed on the other side of the room, with the "Seashell" audio device in her ear. He wonders if the all-time way to talk to her might be a similar device, where he could whisper to her while she's sleeping. Just he doesn't know what he would say anyway.
- Finally he wakes her upwardly and asks if she remembers how they met; she doesn't, even though it was merely ten years ago.
- Montag wonders if she would cry, were he to die. Probably not. He remembers the dandelion which reported his lack of love.
- He feels there'south a wall between him and his wife, much like the iii Tv set walls in the parlour. She thinks of the fictional characters as her family.
- Montag reflects on the loud, overwhelming sounds that come up from the Tv set room when Mildred is in there watching.
- Still in bed, Montag asks Mildred if she's seen the daughter next door, Clarisse, since she disappeared four days ago. Mildred thinks she'due south dead and that her family has moved away. Guy falls asleep with thoughts of the Mechanical Hound.
- The next morn Montag is ill and asks his wife for aspirin, and to turn off the noisy screens in the parlour room. She doesn't want to, since that'south her family unit.
- He tries to tell her almost what happened concluding night—the woman they burned with all her books—but Mildred doesn't care and but keeps talking nearly her TV shows.
- Montag wants his wife to call in sick for him at work, because he knows if he got on the phone with Captain Beatty he'd fold similar a bad hand of cards and go to work anyway.
- He asks her if she'd mind if he quit his job. There must exist something special about books, he argues, since the adult female killed herself over them.
- Just Mildred is logical and fears hunger-stricken poverty.
- Montag realizes that a volume isn't just an object, it's a office of the person who wrote information technology.
- Mildred is upset, only Montag counters that she hasn't been actually bothered by annihilation, not ever.
- Just then Captain Beatty pulls up exterior. Once in the firm, he orders Mildred to close the TV up. Left with Montag, he explains that he'due south seen this all earlier, that every firefighter goes through this.
- The rule book lies, he said—their job hasn't existed as long equally it claims. It came into beingness later, later movies and radio took people away from books. Everything got shorter, faster.
- While he's lecturing to Montag, who is still in bed, Mildred starts fixing up the room, fluffing the pillows, etc. She finds the book backside his pillow but Montag cuts her off and yells at her to leave before she'due south able to depict Beatty'due south attention to it.
- Beatty has moved on to the topic of sports, which allow for the organization and therefore subjugation of the country's citizens.
- The biggest problem with books, Beatty explains, is that everyone is then obsessed with political definiteness and not offending whatsoever minorities that the materials were over-censored. At the end of the mean solar day, all that was immune to remain was comic books and porn. "Intellectual" became a swear give-and-take, because everyone has to be equal, no i smarty-pants immune to rising higher up the rest.
- So these men were persecuted, and their books burned.
- At the core, people want to be happy. And since everyone is a minority of something (whether race, sexual orientation, or occupation), anybody was offended by something. Which means all books are offensive, and all books should be burned.
- Montag asks how it is possible that someone like Clarisse exists. The odd duck happens now and and so, says Beatty, which is why they try to take the children off to school at the earliest possible historic period—to indoctrinate them, to stamp out individuality.
- People similar Clarisse are better off dead, he concludes.
- In school, they stuff the children total of facts, but eliminate the possibility of statement or disagreement. If they tin't disagree, they can't peradventure exist unhappy. And happiness is the indicate of living.
- Books, says Beatty, don't say anything. They are fiction, philosophy, argument, simply zippo tangible or real. They brand you feel lost.
- Montag asks what happens if a firewoman accidentally takes a volume dwelling house. Beatty responds that the fireman can go on information technology for a twenty-four hours, but that then they volition come to burn down it. Beatty stands to leave, asking if Montag will come to work tonight.
- Though certain that he will never come to work again, Montag says "Maybe."
- Beatty drives away in his car (a protrude) and Montag, looking out at the street, remembers Clarisse talking about how people used to accept front porches, before sitting and talking and thinking was looked down upon.
- Montag continues to think aloud regarding his personal crisis. He wants to smash things, he's unhappy, he doesn't know if he'll ever work over again—he might even start reading books. He wants to exercise something big, but he doesn't know what.
- He tells his wife he wants to show her something—something backside the ventilator grill.
- The something turns out to exist an entire drove of books that Montag has squirreled abroad, one at a fourth dimension, over the last yr.
- He tells Mildred that they're in this together at present; Mildred responds by shrieking and taking one of the books to the kitchen incinerator.
- Montag stops her and pleads desperately with his married woman. He wants to read the books just once, to see what's in them. If at that place's nix in that location, he'll burn them. But people similar Clarisse made him curious, and he wants to know why men like Beatty are agape of her.
- The front door's electronic vocalization notifies Mrs. Montag that someone is at the front door. She'due south afraid information technology's Beatty again, just Montag insists they ignore the visitor and start reading the books. He opens one and, after a dozen pages, comes to this line: "It is computed that eleven thousand persons accept at several times suffered death rather than submit to suspension their eggs at the smaller end." (FYI: This is from Gulliver's Travels.)
- Mildred doesn't know what this ways, and concludes that it ways nothing—that Beatty was right.
- Montag says they should first over, at the beginning.
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