FAHRENHEIT 451

DEAR IRENE

"Patience, Montag. Let the war turn off the 'families.' Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge."
"There has to be someone ready when it blows up."
Faber, Montag. pg. 87

Faber, trying to dissuade Montag. They make an interesting pair, they're very separate although they believe in the same things.

"Pity, Montag, pity. Don't haggle and nag them; you were so recently of them yourself. They are so confident that they'll run on forever. But they won't run on. They don't know that this is all one huge big blazing meteor that makes a pretty fire in space, but that someday it'll have to hit. They see only the blaze, the pretty fire, as you saw it."
Faber to Montag. pg. 103

I don't really feel like dragging quotes that tell what happened next, so I'll summarize it again with my thoughts and stuff

So basically, Montag does something really stupid by bringing out a book of poetry in front of his wife's friends. His house is set to be burned down when Beatty finds out about it. It's Montag who has to burn down his own house. Afterwards, he kills Beatty who had found the earpiece that Faber gave him. So then the mechanical hound goes after him and injects some poison into his leg, but all is not lost for he just blasts it with the flamethrower and meanders over to Faber's place once his leg stops...tingling.

So I guess he manages to get to the river unscathed even though all the authorities are after him

There's a lot I can say about it. It was certainly a dramatic plot twist. I like how Beatty was speculated to have had wanted to die, interesting based on his disposition.

I'll be honest, I'm not quite finished yet. I'm in a terrible mood

love, Irene