How To Write A Brief Summary Of Fahrenheit 451

When the firemen were called to a house owned by a old lady, to burn the books she had. A book fell into Montag’s hands and without knowing it, he had stuffed in under his armpit in his coat.

Fire. Fire can mean so many different things in so many different situations. Fire has had a lot to do with the book Fahrenheit 451. Throughout the book, the meaning of that fire changes to the main character, Guy Montag. Montag’s profession is a fireman, but not the fireman you

In the first section, titled The Hearth and the Salamander, Montag shows perseverance. In this section he meets a teenage girl named Clarisse McClellan. She teaches him that it’s okay to think freely he questions if burning books is the right thing to do. When Montag returns home after meeting Clarisse he finds his wife, Mildred, had overdosed on pills, but she survived. Daily Montag met Clarisse and he got used to seeing her, until she went missing. Later on the firemen have to burn down a book-filled house of an old woman. The old woman cherishes her

When Mildred left, Montag killed Beatty. Montag and Beatty got along in the beginning of the novel, but towards the end it didn’t seem that way. When Montag had the books for a while, his warning that Beatty gave him was sending a mechanical hound to his house. Books in this society are not even allowed, but because Guy Montag was a fire fighter, he was aloud to have it for 24 hours and then required to turn it. It is almost as if Beatty wants Montag to kill him. If Montag wouldn’t of killed Beatty, he would’ve been arrested. Captain Beatty continues to lecture Montag on the importance of books in this society, and returning them. Beatty wants to know why he didn’t return them in when the mechanical hound came to his house. Montag knew that he couldn’t get away from Beatty. The mechanical hound would trace his scent and come get him. As ordered to, Guy Montag burnt his house down with the flame thrower that Beatty had gave to him to do so. Once he watched his house burn, he just stood there. Although, at this time, Montag still has the flamethrower. It was silent. Beatty ordered Montag to hand over the flamethrower. “Montag shut his eyes, shouted, shouted, shouted, and fought to get his hands at his ears to clamp and to cut away the sound. Beatty flopped over and over and over, and at last twisted in on himself like a charred wax doll and lay silent.” (Bradbury 121). Montag switched the flip on the flamethrower and proceeds

After Montag is finished burning the house down, Beatty arrests Montag. When Beatty begins to rebuke Montag, Montag turns on his superior and with the flamethrower, proceeds to burn Beatty to ashes.

Faber changed Montag from being a confused man, to an aware, thinking and analyzing person that is deferent from the society he lives in. after killing Beatty, the chief fireman at the station who has read many books and memorized most of them. Montag seeks Faber 's help again, he was confused did not know where to do to escape from the mechanical hound that was running after him. Faber tells Montag to go to the forest, where Montag rested and thought about what happened and whether he did the right thing or not. At the forest, Montag meets a group of men that was lead by Granger; an author who is the leader of a group that hopes to re-populate the world with books.

When walking home from another duty as a fireman Montag stumbles upon his new neighbor, Clarisse McClellan. The two engage in philosophical conversation, mainly driven by the young, “socially ill” neighbor. Before heading into his home, Clarisse asks Montag a question. She asks if he is happy. He laughs at the question at first but after looking at Clarisse’s bright, cheerful home, Montag realizes he may not be as happy as he thinks he is while standing in his cold bedroom. A metaphor describes his feelings as Bradbury writes, “He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back,” (12). Then as matters couldn't get worse, he discovers his wife has attempted suicide shortly after accidentally kicking an empty sleeping pill bottle on the floor. From that moment on he continues to refer to this incident, wondering why his wife took the pills in the first place. Even after calling for help and saving her life, Mildred continues to bother Montag with distrust and ignorance. She even reports Montag’s interest in books to the fire department, leading Montag to completely change the way he thinks about their

Montag encountered a kind seventeen-year-old girl named Clarisse McClellan, who opened his eyes to the purposelessness of his life with her innocently clever questions and her odd love of people and nature. As Montag's dissatisfaction with his life increased, he began to search for a solution in a stash of books that he had stolen from his own fires and hidden inside an air-conditioning vent.

Montag desperately tries to convince Mildred that books would be the start to end their internal suffering, but she is unwilling to alter her view on her lifestyle. He tries to show her that how they are currently living is not good for either of them. When Montag is convincing Mildred, Mildred’s inability to realize the positive change books would have on her causes her and Montag’s relationship to end. “See what you’re doing? You’ll ruin us!

Montag thought that no one knew about the books, but his wife Mildred did and she wanted to tell on Montag. Then while Mildred had her friends over Montag read poetry to them, ‘’Ah, love, let us be true, to one another for the world, which it seems to lie’’ (Bradbury 96). Montag read a book to prove a point to the women that books are important. The women then went and told on Montag for having books. Beatty then went to drive to Montag’s house then, ‘’They rounded a corner in thunder and a siren, with conclusion of tires, with scream of rubber, with a shift of kerosene bulk in glittery brass tank, like the food in the stomach of a giant, with Montag’s fingers jolting off the silver rail, swinging into cold space, with the wind tearing his hair back from his head, with the wind whistling in his teeth, and him all the while thinking of the chaff woman in his parlor tonight, with the kernels blown out from them by a neon wind, and his silly damned reading of a book to them’’ (Bradburry106). Beatty drove to Montag’s house with Montag and the firemen to burn it. Montag was shocked and then Montag ran away to escape punishments.

Captain Beatty arrives to speak with Montag, somehow knowing that he feels ill and would be taking the evening off. Before he leaves, Beatty makes mention of the fact that firemen are occasionally overcome by curiosity about the books that they burn and may steal one to satiate that curiosity. Even though when this happens, they are given a 24-hour respite to come to their senses and burn the book. If they do not follow this rule, then their coworkers

Montag is filled with dep, raw emotions after the stress of his night at work. After being sick on the carpet due to his distress, he tells Mildred of the previous night's events. She completely ignores what he has said and replies with “It’s a good thing the carpet is washable”. He mentions again “last night… we burned a thousand books. We burned a woman”.

Montag feels at the begining of the novel that the communication is greatly lacking in society. People are becoming very ignorant and turning reallife realationships aside. They now turn to their "tv families". One victim of neglecting real life realtionships is Mildred, Montag's wife. Montag truley hates this. "Nobody listens any more. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me. I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read." (2.125). Montag hopes that his wife and him can rejoin their connection through the books, but is sadly wrong and must find some one else, Faber.

Montag grows consistently dissatisfied with his life and work the more he talks with Clarisse. He starts to ponder if perhaps books aren’t so bad, and even snatches one from one of his book burning missions. Meanwhile Clarisse disappears, which I assumed she was dead and his boss, Captain Beatty, is growing suspicious. He lectures Montag on the potential hazards of books and explains the origin and history of their profession. Far from rejuvenated, Montag feels blazing anger and becomes more dangerously rebellious than ever. He spends one afternoon with his wife reading his secret stash of books he’s been storing behind his ventilator grill and decides he needs a teacher. He takes a Christian Bible and tries to memorize some of it on his trip.

The Night was cold the air smelled of the ropes we had been making all day I felt quite tired yet I could not fall asleep. One thing was for sure there had been no rain for weeks, days like this were bad. They were days that would cause people to go mad because there well might dry up and the roads would be dried up and bumpy, not soft like they should be. This always made people grumpy. Not that people were not already mad. They had been mad ever since we came here they call use lobster backs or bloody backs just because we were the red coats of a British soldiers. It to me was all wrong but my mind kept wandering to Rachel Marsh the servant to Mr and Mrs Adams. I remember when I first got here she was the Boston women to treat me like