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they happened.
______Captain Beatty comes to visit Montag. He
explains that all firemen go through crises like this
one. He admits that the rule book is lying and explains
how and why their occupation exists. Montag doesnt
say much. After Beatty is gone, he tries talking to
Mildred about his unhappiness, but she is not
receptive. Then he goes to the ventilator grill and pulls
out the collection of books that hes hidden away. He
makes Mildred read them with him.
______At the river, Montag ditches his own gear, bathes, and puts on Fabers clothes.
After some heavy duty floating in the river, accompanied by some equally heavy duty
pondering on the nature of the universe, Montag finds a fire that is amazingly not
destroying stuff. Its actually a friendly fire.
______At the firehouse, the Mechanical Hound seems to threaten Montag. Captain
Beatty tells him this is impossible.
______Along with the campfire, he finds the book people, the leader of which is a guy
named Granger. Granger explains to Montag who they are. Very early in the morning,
the city is destroyed by bombs. In the aftermath, Montag recalls a passage from the
Book of Ecclesiastes and readies himself to rebuild and create, la the tree of life.
______That night, Montag hides the book under his pillow. He wakes up in the middle
of the night and wonders how he and his wife met. The next morning Montag is feeling
ill and wants his wife to call in sick for him. She wont. They argue; Montag doesnt
want to be a fireman anymore, and Mildred thinks this is ridiculous.
______That night at the firehouse, Beatty taunts Montag with contradictory quotes from
literature before driving them all to the site of an alarm: Montags house. Montag burns
his own house. Montag burns Beatty. Montag burns the Mechanical Hound, but not
before getting stabbed in the leg by its needle. Montag limps, then runs like hell.
______Guy Montag heads home after work and bumps into Clarisse McClellan, who
introduces herself and her crazy approach to life. Montag is at a loss when asked
whether or not hes happy; Clarisse leaves before he can decide.
______Montag flips out and decides he needs a teacher. He remembers meeting Faber
in the park one day and decides the old man will do just fine. Montag calls Faber, but
the man is reluctant to talk over the phone. Montag takes his copy of the Bible and
heads over there in person. On the subway, he tries to memorize some of the text but is
distracted by an advertisement.
______Once Montag is at Fabers, the old man explains to him that books themselves
arent important, but the information they contain is. Together the men plot how to
bring down the system. They talk about destroying the firemen structure from the inside
by planting books in the firemens houses. Faber commits to contacting a friend of his
who used to print books. He also gives Montag a two-way radio for his ear.
______Back at home, Montag cant stop thinking about Clarisse. Then he discovers his
wife has taken thirty or so sleeping pills. He calls in the emergency and is dismayed that
the men sent are more like plumbers than doctors. Once theyre gone, he takes a sleep
lozenge and dozes off.
______That night, Montag has to deal with his wifes insipid friends. He reads them
some poetry out loud, and they run away crying and angry.
The next morning, Montag is shocked to find that his wife remembers nothing from the
night before. He walks outside and encounters Clarisse, who encourages him to taste
the rain and informs him that, according to her dandelion, he is not in love. Montag
suffers an identity crisis, feeling that his body has divided in two halves.
______After planting a book at a fellow firemans house, Montag is nearly hit by a car.
At Fabers house, he watches his own pursuit on TV and leaves for the river with
Fabers smelly old clothes to mask his personal scent from the Mechanical Hound.
______While playing cards at the firehouse, Montag asks if firemen used to put out
fires, as Clarisse claimed earlier. He uses the phrase once upon a time, which he once
glimpsed in a book before he burned it. Beatty makes him look at the rule book, which
explains that firemen go way back to the earliest colonies in the U.S. The alarm goes off
and the men rush to a big house with a woman out front quoting Hugh Latimer. Inside,
Montag grabs a book before the place is burned.
_____Montag continues to meet Clarisse and learn more about her philosophy. He is
intrigued by her and thinks her older and wiser than those his own age, including his
wife. Montag is left at a loss when Clarisse disappears.

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