Fahrenheit 451
Guy Montag is a fireman in charge of burning books. A gentle young girl named Clarisse
McClellan opens his eyes to the emptiness of his life with her innocently penetrating questions
and peculiar love of people and nature. After his wife Mildred attempts suicide without even
realizing what she is doing, after he witnesses an old woman let herself be burned with her
books, and after he hears that Clarisse has been killed by a speeding car, Montag searches for
solutions to his rising dissatisfaction in a stash of books he has stolen and hidden. He looks to
Mildred for help and support, but she prefers television to her husband\'s company and cannot
understand why he would want to take the terrible risk of reading books.
Montag remembers an old intellectual named Faber with whom he once talked in the park and
goes to him for help in understanding what he reads. Meanwhile, Beatty, Montag\'s superior, has
guessed that Montag is experimenting with books and hints that......
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