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Summary
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Montag
took the subway back after going to the bank for Faber. While on his way back, Montag listens to reports over the radio that
the country is mobilizing for war. Faber begin to talk and started to read to him from the Book of Jobs. Montag gets home
and find two of Mildred friends over, Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowls. He attempts to have a conversation with all three women.
They humor his but talk about how they voted in the elections based on looks. Montag all of a sudden bring a book of poetry
out and Mildred tries to cover it up by explain that a fireman can bring home one book a year. Faber, listening to this whole
conversation, urges Montag to go along with his wife. He ignores Faber and begins to read a piece of poetry. Both women got
very upset, one of them demand that he stop at once. Montag yells at Mrs. Bowls to go home and think about her empty life
and both women leave. Mildred begins to burn the books one by one, so Montag re hides them in the backyard. Montag go to the
fire station where he gives his books to Beatty. Montag is afraid to make a mistake so he refuses to move. Faber talks to
Montag through the shell piece in his ear and tells him that mistakes are okay. The fire alarm goes off, and the house is
Montag’s own home.
Mildred
grabbed a suitcase and rushed out of the house, and Montag had realized his own wife called the alarm on him. Montag was ordered
to burn his house and get threatened that if he runs away the hound with be put on him. Beatty then realizes that Montag has
something in his ear and strikes him across the head. Montag then burn Beatty with his flamethrower and strikes the other
two firemen on the head, knocking them out. Soon after, the hound appears and
injects Montag’s leg making it numb. He hears sirens and makes a run for it but stumbles over and has to force himself
up and continue running. Montag comes across a gas station and decided to go and wash the soot off his face. Trying to create
an allusion, Montag goes into a coworker’s house, places the books he hides in the back yard in the house and then called
the alarm on them. He gets to Faber’s house, and gives him the money that Faber had Montag get. Faber tells Montag to leave town and tells him to fallow the railroad to the homes of homeless intellectuals.
He tells Montag to one day go to St. Louis where they will meet again.
Analysis
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Through these two sections,
we can see that the author used significant religious references to show Montag’s journey to free thought and realization
of the world. We see that Faber, the Professor, reads from the book of Jobs. This section of Jobs is about GOD wondering is
Job will remain faithful. Clearly, Faber is also wondering if Montag will remain faithful even with all the obstacles. Montag
begins to have free thought and proves Faber wrong when he become suspicious of Faber’s orders. Another place where
we see that the author used religion to show Montag’s journey was when he tried to engage in a conversation with Mildred
and her two friends. He compares them to religious obstacles. Through the conversation he realizes that they have emptiness,
and have a lack of concern for the war to come. He also notices that they seem
meaningless. Montag opens his book of Poetry to “Dover
beach”; it deals with the theme of lost faith and the capacity of relationships to replace faith. Afterward he goes
back to the Fire station and washes his hand. One can see that he is washing the guilt of what he had done and starting over
with a clean slat. During the conversation with Mildred and her Friends, Montag talks out a book and starts reading. The women
insist that he put it away and through the earpiece Faber talks to Montag and tries to encouraging to list to his wife and
put it away. The author is trying to show the reading though this that Technology can be both positive and negative, it all
depends of how one uses it. Lastly thought this section the author continues on the development of the fight between Faber
and Beatty over Montag.
Mildred picks up and leaves
Montag in this section. As Montag watches Mildred leave, he realizes that she will forget all about him and move on showing
that she never had fullness in the marriage. In this section, one can see that Montag still had enjoyment in burning houses
for he had no trouble burning his own home. When he burns his own house it is almost like he is leaving what he had before
behind and moving on. Underneath the Ashes from the house, one can think that maybe Mildred, metaphorically, is being burnt
with the house. This left an empty slat for him to move on and start all over. After, Beatty does something to anger Montag,
at which point Montag sets Beatty on fire. Beatty is described as no longer human and no longer known to Montag when he catches
fire. Fire is symbol here as Montag’s Liberty. Later
Montag realizes that he has done and starts to feel a little bad about it. Montag gets to Faber’s house and they watch
the News together. One can not help but wonder if Montag every regretted letting go of the life he had and if he always felt
like something was missing. One might also think about the fear in Montag’s eyes when he knew the whole city was looking
for him to kill him. The last image of the section is at Faber’s house suggesting a hopeful end for Montag and his world.
The image is of water from the sprinklers, but it is describes as rain.
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