Monday, 6 July 2015

What are 8 important events that occur in Fahrenheit 451?

Hollis Sanders

  • Montag meets Clarisse, a strange girl who causes Montag to question the nature of
    society and his role in it, his values, and the effectiveness of the existing power
    structure.
  • On the job as a "fireman," Montag and his team raid a
    house where a woman is keeping contraband books. Rather than suffer on the authorities' terms,
    the woman instead immolates with her books. This astounds Montag, who is moved to steal a book
    from the home.
  • Montag learns of the death of Clarisse and is suspicious of
    the circumstances.
  • With the help of a retired English professor named
    Faber, Montag plots to overthrow the current power structure. Beatty, Montag's chief, is
    suspicious of Montag's activity and tries to make him see reason without direct
    accusation.
  • Montag, furious at the vapid nature of his wife and her
    friends' lives, reads them the poem "Dover Beach."
  • Horrified, his
    wife contacts the authorities, and Montag is called as a fireman to burn down his own
    home.
  • In a climactic confrontation with Beatty, Montag kills his boss.
    However, it is implied that Beatty was world-weary himself and allowed his own death.

  • Montag escapes the city and lives among a fringe society of scholars who memorize
    books so that they may rebuild the intellectual world when the society of the book-burners
    inevitably collapses.
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