Fahrenheit 451 Cheat Sheet

Fahrenheit 451 Part 3: “Burning Bright” Summary (pages 107 - 119)  Mildred and her friends called in the alarm  Mildred ignores Montag and leaves in a cab  He burns down the house with a flamethrower directed by Captain Beatty  Beatty continues to attack Montag with words, Faber directs him to run; Montag tries but is stopped by Captain Beatty, who discovers the ear radio  Montag kills Beatty with the flamethrower and runs  Montag is disabled temporarily by the Mechanical Hound  he retrieves some books from the yard and goes to Faber’s  Montag is scared and sad, but did not want to kill anyone, now he is a wanted fugitive Fahrenheit 451 Summary (pages 119 – 130)  Radios report “war has been declared” as Montag washes up at a gas station  Crossing the vast boulevard Montag is nearly killed by a speeding car  he hides books in the kitchen of fireman Black’s house  At Faber’s house, Montag gives him money, the two men watch as a new mechanical hound is shown on TV; it will hunt Montag  Montag and Faber try to cover Montag’s scent as Montag runs towards the river Fahrenheit 451 Summary (pages 130 – 138)  As Montag runs through the streets and alleys he looks in windows of houses to see the Hound chasing him in the TV parlors  Faber’s house is passed by and Montag makes it to the river just in time  He uses the river and Faber’s old clothes to mask his scent  He thinks of Millie, remembers sleeping in a barn loft as a boy and enjoys being out of the city  Montag finds the old railroad tracks Fahrenheit 451 Summary (pages 138-148)    Montag finds a group of men around a fire; they welcome him With a portable battery TV, they watch the helicopters and the Hound catch “Montag,” an innocent man out for a walk Montag meets the men and learns that they each hold a book in their memory; there are thousands like them Fahrenheit 451 Summary (pages 148-158) • The city is bombed, completely destroyed • Montag thinks of Millie and Faber; Faber is on a bus, Millie may be in a hotel room watching the TV walls • Granger comforts Montag with some life lessons his grandfather taught him • The shock wave from the bomb reaches the men, knocks them down • The men cook and share some bacon for breakfast, then begin walking • Montag remembers details of Ecclesiastes, plans to share it with the men later