Summary

            Captain Beatty comes to make sure that Montag is doing ok, because he figured that he would call in sick to work that day.  He begins to explain to Montag that every fireman goes through the “problem”, that he has been experiencing.  Beatty begins to tell Montag the history of the fireman and how they used to be, and how they began the tradition of burning books.  Beatty explains that since all houses became fireproof the fire fighters purpose has been changed to putting out fires, to burning books.

            Montag then goes on to ask Beatty about how a girl like Clarisse could survive, and Beatty goes on to tell him that he had been keeping an eye on Clarisse’s entire family for a few years by then, because of all there weird behaviors and that he believed that Clarisse would be better off dead.  Beatty then leaves and Montag tells Mildred that he no longer wants to work at the station anymore.  He then goes on to show her a collection of 20 or so books that he had been collecting.  He asks Mildred to help him search through the books for answers and then he begins to read.

            Montag and Mildred read all day, but Montag is struggling because he insists that he does not understand what he is reading and he believes that he needs a teacher to teach him to understand.  He decides to call Professor Faber, because it was apparent that he had been reading poetry and books.  When Montag first calls him Faber believes that it is a trap and he just hangs up the phone.  So, Montag decides to go pay Faber a visit at his home.

            While on the subway Montag flashes his book on accident and nearly gets into severe trouble.  Once he arrives at Faber’s house Faber realizes that he is not setting up a trap and that he really needs his help.  Montag suggested the plan of planting books in other fireman’s houses, but Faber quickly shot it down.  Faber then has the idea to give Montag a two-way radio that he had made and Montag would hand back in a book to see how Beatty would react; with the two-way radio Faber can hear Beatty and relay to Montag what to say.

Analysis

            Captain Beatty goes to Montag’s House, knowing that he wanted to call in sick and not be on the force anymore.  Montag tells Beatty that he is having this “problem”, which is feeling bad because of all the books that he had been burning and how he doesn’t understand what he is doing it and why he is doing what he is doing.  Beatty then begins to explain to him the history of how the fire fighters began to burn books, how they used to be the ones to put out the fires but after the houses became fireproof then they began to burn books because they thought that the TV was better than reading because people don’t have to stop and process the information with the TV they just get the info with no time to stop and analyze it.

            Montag goes on to ask Beatty how a girl like Clarisse, who reads books, could survive.  When he asks this, I believe that this section is crucial in the book because it seems as if he is trying to answers out Beatty as to how he, or anyone else for that matter, could survive if they were to read books.  He has been gaining interest in the books and this is a section where he is trying to find out how to survive by doing this.

            The intensity of the section begins to pick up when Montag goes to see Faber.  Faber, a professor whom Montag had meet earlier at the park, Montag knew he was a person who had been reading and Montag wants him to help develop a plan to get back at the firefighters for doing what they have been doing, burning books.  When Faber gives Montag the two-way radio that he had mad this puts a huge twist on the book, with the ability for Montag and Faber to communicate, this gives them a huge advantage for them, Faber and Montag, over the firfighters, because they can communicate.

            The fact that Montag was willing to sacrifice himself to do something that he knew was right, wearing the two-way radio and basically spying, was a sign that even during a difficult ime such as this human beings for one, have good in there heart, and two, everyone in one way or another shows a sense of bravery, and this was Montag’s and his bravery played a huge role in the book.