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- But Clarisse’s favorite subject wasn’t herself. It was everyone else, and me. She was the first person in a good many years I’ve really liked. She was the first person I can remember who looked straight at me as if I counted.
- Montag meets Clarisse
- I’m antisocial, they say. I don’t mix. It’s so strange. I’m very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn’t it? Social to me means talking to you about things like this.
- Mildred Attempts Suicide
- His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable. And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind
- The lady died with her books
- There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.
- Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!
- Guy meets Clarisse, his curious seventeen-year-old neighbor who asks questions that make him think about their society and his life. She serves to enlighten his mind and spur him into creating change. Meeting Clarisse changes the way Guy feels about his job, wife, and the rest of his life.
- Montag Shows Mildred his Hidden books
- "Books aren't people ... my 'family' is people. They tell me things; I laugh, they laugh! And the colors.
- Guy finds his wife unconscious in their bed, needing emergency care after an overdose attempt. The emergency hospital is called and Mildred is saved, while the operators reveal to Guy that they get nine or ten overdose cases per night.
- Montag Visits Faber
- “This afternoon I thought thatif it turned out that books were worthwhile, we might get a press and print some extra copies
- In this society there is 3 important things missing: the life of his society are quality of information, time to think, and the right to act on your own thoughts.
- Guy responds to a call at the firehouse and his team rushes to the house of a woman with books in her attic. He tries desperately to convince the woman to leave the doomed house, but she refuses. Rather than give up her knowledge to live a safe, but unhappy life, the woman chooses to go down in flames with her house.
- Montag reads to Mildred Friends
- Mrs. Phelps was crying
- Boks just bring pain
- Montag STOP!
- Guy decides to come clean and shows his wife his hidden collection of books stashed away in the air conditioning vents. Mildred panics and wants to turn them in immediately, but Guy convinces her to give him twenty-four hours to read together and find out any secrets that could be hidden within the banned books
- After recalling meeting a retired English professor in a park a year prior, Guy pays a visit to him to show him the Bible he stole and speak with him. Faber talks about the three things missing from modern society: quality informative content, leisure time to think, and the right to act based on information learned from the first two needs. The two plan to meet with a book printer, and Faber also provides Guy with a method of communicating with him, a small earpiece the size of a Seashell Radio.
- Guy returns home to find Mildred with two friends. He listens to their small talk and becomes increasingly frustrated before pulling out a book of poetry, Dover Beach, and reading it to the three women. One of the women starts crying at the poem and they storm out, leaving Mildred extremely upset.
- Reading: “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold
- Maria Celese Leon | English | Fahrenheit 451
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