Brief Summary Of Series: Pearson Spectre Litt

Guy montag, a future fireman who sets fires, and enjoys it. This society cant read books, it's illegal, all books are burned seemingly to everyone’s enjoyment, including guy. Largely defining his character as finding a fire-fueled smile that never leaves his face. Clarisse, a girl living next to guy, changes his mind with simple questions he’s never heard, “are you in love?’’ No one asks him a personal question, he doesn't know the answer. With books being burned for their knowledge, authenticity is scarce and people are feed what they “need” to hear, substance-less information no one cares to change or question because they don't know how, just hop in the truck and hit 90 mph for an hour if something bothers

Although many complaints were turned in, the report that montag’s wife Millie sent was the one that caused the fire department to take action. In this passage, Beatty explains that he intends to murder Guy by burning him. He also believes that if he burns Montag he won't have to deal with the repercussions of murdering him, and it will be assumed that he burned with his books. If this conflict hadn’t happened, Montag would have stayed in the city to die when it was bombed. He also would have never been able to share the messages that he had learned from reading books as well as he would have outside the city. In closing, the central conflict in this book saved the main character's life and helped set him up to help fix

Joseph – helps the protagonist. He is Mike’s classmate and is his best friend. He and Mike team up to take on Andy

Clarisse makes Guy Montag open his mind up to new things. Clarisse asks Guy Montag a question that is very simple yet very deep. The question she asks him is simply “Are you happy?” This question inspires Guy to think about his life and how he can change it. Once Montag gets home he finds his wife Mildred looking lifeless, his wife had tried to commit suicide. It made him think more about Clarisse’s question of “Are you happy?” The next morning when Montag and Mildred had awoke, Mildred did not remember her attempted suicide. His wife’s attempted suicide made him think more about his life and the events of his life so far. Montag tries to understand why Clarisse questions the ways of their society and acts the way she does. Montag does not understand why Clarisse asks herself why. Montag begins to question the society he lives in because of Clarisse’s question. Montag ask a coworker about what firemen use to do in their job in the past. His fireman coworkers tell him to remember the rule book and that they were given the job they do now for a reason. The firehouse gets a call to go burn down another house that contains books, it is Mrs. Black’s house. When they arrive the light of the fire had already started from the burning of her house and books. Mrs. Black decided to stay in her house with her burning books and die. Montag wonders why

He shows Montag is a fireman but has a softer side when he runs into a young girl. He is different from other firemen because he listens to what the interesting girl is saying.

A 30 year-old firefighter, Guy Montag, burns houses instead of saving them. “ He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a minstrel man, burnt-cooked, in the mirror” (2). Montag is a rebellious character that thinks highly of himself. His neighbor is named Clarisse McClellan. She is a charming and intelligent girl. “ Bet I know something you don’t. There’s dew on the grass in the morning” (7). Clarisse absorbs nature and knows more than Montag. Mildred is Montag's wife. She is addicted to pills and she’s stuck in media. “ Two pale moonstones buried in a creek of clear water over which the life of the world ran… her face was like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain… her not caring whether it came or went” (11). When she overdoses it seems that she is careless, thoughtless, and completely empty minded. Mildred isn't unhappy with her life because she attempts things that cause

We meet Guy Montag, a Fireman, who burns books in a futuristic and dystopian American society. The Central problem is Montag’s Man vs Society conflict in which he battles against an oppressive society.

At the Fire Station, Beatty is talking to Montag, trying to convince him that the firemen are great. Faber through an earpiece helps Montag stay strong. Then, a fire alarm goes off and the firemen go to the scene. It is Montag’s house “Why, we’ve stopped in front of my house” (pg 110). Beatty forces Montag to burn his house on his own, going room by room, getting every book. As he burns, he has is finally fireman based feelings about it “ Fire was best for everything” (pg 116). Once Montag is done, Beatty notices the earpiece Montag has and takes it. Afraid of the plan with Faber being destroyed, Montag burns and kills Beatty and then runs. Montag says before he burns Beatty “We never burned right . . .” (pg 119) which tells us that Montag thoroughly knows that the way the firemen burned was wrong and they never burned for the right

Harvey’s reign of terror had already been going on for a while when Susie died. When Len Fenerman, the useless detective, investigated Harvey’s house, he gained nothing but some empty names: Leah, and Sophie, and the usual dollhouse story. In fact, the only real clue Len got

Montage struggles with himself to abide with his government. Even though Guy is a fireman who burns books, he has a mental desire to save them from being burned. Montag wants to be an intellectual person who will discover and uncover realities of his society. Although, he fears being discovered and getting killed for his mistakes. Montag fears moving forward and feels stuck to the ground “

In the fall, Grandma Lynn calls Jack and says she's moving in. That December, Mr. Harvey has been gone over a year, and nobody has been able to find him. Susie feels sorry for Len Fenerman because he didn't solve the crime in time or get the lady. (Apparently, when Abigail left for California, she cut all ties to Len.) Len feels extremely guilty for not solving Susie's case.

When Montag realizes that he was not helping society, but was only sucked into his belief in doing the right thing, he represents the salamander surviving the flames. The flames are what society wants people to do, like being ignorant, but Montag becomes aware of all the problems he created and lies he’s been telling himself. He’s not giving into society’s intentions, represented by fire, but surviving it as the salamander. When he was thinking about his relationship with Mildred, he stated, “Well, wasn’t there a wall between him and Mildred, when you came down to it? Literally not just one wall but, so far, three!” (44). Montag remembers Clarisse and her dandelion test, and how she said he wasn’t in love with anyone. He realizes that Mildred never cared about him, and is too attached to technology and the TV walls. People are being too consumed by technology to notice anything about the world, but Montag is able to because he thinks. He was figuring out why certain things happen, a quality many people in his society do not have, because they never question their actions. Secondly, Montag was talking to Mildred about Clarisse and his job, and said, “But I kept putting her alongside the firemen in the House last night, and I suddenly realized... I didn’t like myself at all any more” (67). What Montag despised was destroying objects solely based on their opposing views of society. He is

4. Montag turns the flame thrower toward Beatty and burns him to ashes, knocks the other firemen out and runs for it.

He causes problems for the next lawyer who tells the police to arrest him which leads him to his death by refusing to deal with his

society and man vs. himself. Montag joins the firemen back at the station after being sick, and the siren rings. He goes along with his regular routine, but then the firemen arrive at their destination, Montag’s house. Beatty instructs Montag to burn his own home, when Beatty states, “I want you to do tis job all by your lonesome, Montag. Not with kerosene and a match, but piecework, with a flame thrower.