Monday, February 11, 2013

MY F451

 Firemen in the story start fires as opposed to putting them out. Guy Montag is fireman who loves his job and  is happy with his life until he meets a girl named Clarisse. Clarisse tells Montag that that life has more meaning than what people realize. Montag then begins to think about things in a way that he hadn't done before. He changes into a new person. One night when him and the other firemen get a call to go burn some books he is astonished when the owner of the books decides to be burned in her house with the books. Montag wonders what is so special about books that can make a person do such a thing, so he snatches a book from the owner's house. He adds it to the stash of his other books he has hidden in his house. Montag remembers an old english professor named Faber that he met a long time ago and he plans to talk to him to learn more about books. Once at Faber's, they devise a plan to plant books in the firestations so that the stations have to be burned. Montag's boss, Captain Beatty, knows that Montag has a book and let's him hold onto it for a while hoping to realize that people don't need books. When Montag doesn't burn the book, Beatty brings Montag and the other firemen out to burn Montag's house down. After the house has been burnt, Montag is tired of what Beatty says and burns him to death, even though later he realizes that's what Beatty wanted all along. Montag runs away out of the city and ends up running into a group of old teachers who have books memorized in their heads. He decides to join their lifestyle and memorize a book himself. Later the city gets being bombed due to the war that was currently going on and him and the group walk to what's left of the city and want to rebuild, the right way.

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