Finished - Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 overall was a very engaging, thrilling story. It all starts out when we meet a peculiar man named Guy Montag. Now in the beginning of the book, I saw Montag as very mysterious, but not exactly in a good way. He seemed pretty timid and a bit boring. But now I see that was because of his own secret of the books he was hiding. He goes on to meet a neighbor tat just moved in, Clarisse. I think Clarisse encourages him very much in a forward direction towards being his individual self. They become good friends, but Montag hears that Clarisse is now dead and I think the main reason that Montag does continue in his revelation to bring back books is because he wants to carry out the legacy of Clarisse. She was such a genuinely intelligent and mysterious person. After all of this we soon learn that Montag has been hiding books in his home for quite a while now and brings yet another one home with him after yet another fire he starts in a harmless woman's house.  He is visited by Captain Beatty, his theoretical boss down at the fire station and Beatty is very keen on hinting to Montag that he knows about the books. After Beatty leaves he shows his secret stash to Mildred, his wife, and she freaks out. he is not pleased with them, being her simple minded self. She just does not want to think about anything that is not in sync with what she normally thinks about.

This brings us to the Part 2 of the book. This is where it all starts to get really interesting. Mildred and Montag start out this part of the book by arguing over the books. Millie is much more interested in the fact of watching T.V. or her "family" than anything to do with Montag sand his books. She thinks he's completely insane. Just when Montag starts to lose hope, he remembers an old English Professor by the name of Faber. Montag arrives at Faber's house after a brief call and they discuss books. They come up with a plan to make copies of books and put them in all the firemen's homes so that nobody can trust them and they may be forced to bring books back just for the pure sake of it. Faber gives Montag an ear piece that he has made so that they can communicate back and forth. Like a walkie talkie for your ear. When Montag comes home, Millie and two of her friends are there. Montag goes crazy for  split second and tries to make them understand how important books are while Faber is screaming in his ear not to read to them. Montag does though, read to them that is. They turn Montag in without his knowledge and Montag leaves his home to go to the forestation to turn in only one book to Beatty, thinking everything will be okay and the suspicion will go away. Only that's not exactly what happens. They have to leave the forestation to go start a fire in someones house when they suddenly pull up to Montag's home. This was not expected, obviously, by Montag.

That ends Part 2 and with every end there is a beginning and this beginning happens to be the thrill seeking Part 3. It starts with Montag being beaten to shreds with the words of Beatty. Beatty will not stop insulting him for how stupid he is to have not seen all of the signs. He then forces Montag to burn his own house down with him in which Montag does not take very calmly. Well to the point where Monag actually kills Beatty. Whoops. He burns him alive with a flamethrower when Beatty tries to arrest him. He knocks the other firemen out and makes a run for it, well he tries ,but the Hound gets to him first, slicing a chunk of his leg up, but Montag throws the flamethrower at him as well, killing also, the Hound. Montag travels the distance to Faber's house and finds that they are transporting another Hound to come and try to find him. Faber tells Montag to travel to an old printer's home in St. Louis and Montag tells Faber to remove his scent from Faber's house so the Hound does not reach him. It works and when the Hound reaches Faber's house he turns around. montage changes out of his scented clothes and is carries downstream by a river. When he stops he find a group of unusual people, all with the same motives as Faber. They become friends quickly, learning that they are much of the same. They also watch the chase for Montag on television, eyeing that they have captured "Montag", the only problem is that it's not truly Montag. The story ends when they see jets overlooking the city and exploding the city into bits with bombs. Montag and his friends move towards the city afterwards to try to rebuild it into what they would want.