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the book burner
Montag is a fireman who's job is to burn books. -
Change of heart
Montag meets a girl named Clarisse. She is seventeen, and she is able to change Montag's view on practically every aspect of his world. Montag is opened to a whole new way of life when he meets Clarisse. -
unexpected tragedy
Montag comes home from work to see his wife on death's door from taking in too many pills. He, hurriedly, gets a doctor who heals her back to normal. -
sudden death
Just several days after Montag meets Clarisse, she is said to have been killed in a car crash. -
a traitor
Te author mentions that Montag has collected over twenty books at the end of the first part. -
reunion with a stranger
Montag is in dire need of answers so he goes to talk to an old stranger he once met named Faber. They come up with a plan to overthrown the firmen and Faber gives Montag a device that allows them to communicate at large distances. -
sick day
Montag is having an internal war so he feels very sick; he calls in sick and later Beatty comes to talk to Montag. -
caught in the act
Montag is talking to Beatty when Mildred his wife starts to fix the bed; he gets very nervous because there is a book under his and he has to yell at her to not touch his pillow. After that Beatty gives Montag a speech about firmen and thier dealings with books. -
self-distruction
Montag goes to work and wen the alarm goes off, the firemen arrive at his house. Beatty makes him burn his own house as he watches his wife ditch the scene forever. -
life or death
after he burns his house, Montag burns Beatty alive and anything else that stops him from attaining freedom. As soon as this is done he runs away. -
Faber's house
Montag goes to Faber's house and to calm down for a little while; he sees that another Mechanical hound is chasing him, so he along with Faber's elp erase all scent of him and he leave toward the river. -
friend or foe
After traveling in the river for a while, he comes across a group of men; he hids for a while, but they call him out from the darkness. They soon allow him to join them in their travels. -
big blast
As the group of men are traveling, the hear the hiss of war planes and brace themselves for the atomic blast as it lays the city to waste.