Guy Montag is burning down a house filled with books expressing how much he enjoys it and showing how proud he is to be a firefighter.
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It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.
Montag shortly after meeting his neighbor realizes he's not happy with society because everyone lives side by side but no one actually connects with one another, including his wife Mildred.
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Why is it I feel like I've known you for so many years?
Because I like you and I don't want anything from you.
Montag and Captain Beatty go to start a fire in a women's house but she refuses to leave her books, so she dies in the fire. Montag also secretly steals one of her books.
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You can't ever have my books.
You know the law. Where's your common sense?
Montag feels sickened after burning the lady in her house with her books and hearing about Clairesse McClellan's death from his wife Mildred. He also starts questioning if books could be more important than they seem.
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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.
McClellan was Run over by a car. Four days ago.
Captain Beatty comes to visit Montag because he called in sick and has a suspicion Montag is hiding something. When the captain was visiting Mildred found a book under Montag's pillow but said nothing.
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Just thought I'd come by and see how the sick man is.
Montag goes to a retired English professor he knew, named Faber. He does this talk to about his plan of planting books in firefighters houses now that he believes the book law is corrupt and should be changed. Faber agreed and gave him a small 2 way radio ear piece to help and communicate.
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If you put it in your ear, Montag, I can sit comfortably home, warming my frightened bones, and hear and analyze the firemen's world, find its weaknesses, without danger.