After burning a fireman alive, Montag finds himself on the run, eventually connecting with the group of Eels.
Montag is confronted by Captain Beatty who erases his identity. Montag remembers that Captain Beatty was among the group of firemen who beat up his father for being an Eel and stops burning the books. On Beatty's orders Montag starts burning the stash. The firemen go to Montag's house and find a large stash of planted books. Montag was supposed to steal a transponder from the fire department in order to attach it to the bird so that it can be located by a group of scientists who will transfer the DNA to other animals.Īfter Montag steals the transponder, fireman Beatty goes to Montag to confirm his intention to continue as a fireman burning books. This rebel group encoded books into a starling's DNA so that it can live on and survive the efforts of the firemen. Montag decides to help a rebel who has a plan to reproduce their information through animals.
When he finally decides to rebel and understand how the "Eels" (book-reading outcasts) read, he comes to a realization-he now wants to read as well. All this changes when he meets an informant named Clarisse, who makes him challenge his actions and convictions by sharing some of the real history of the US and the rise of the Ministry with him. Guy Montag is a fireman living in Cleveland and goes about his work without question, believing that by following in his captain's footsteps he is serving and protecting society.
Books are ordered to be burned by "Firemen", who are part of the "Ministry", a totalitarian dictatorship that blames unhappiness, mental illness, and conflicting opinions on reading the "wrong" literature. The firemen don't contain fires, because the buildings are safe from fire, they have to burn books. The fire department isn't the same, what it has been. In the future, after a second civil war, most reading in the United States is confined to the Internet, called "The 9", and most books are banned (except for greatly simplified versions of books such as The Bible, To the Lighthouse and Moby Dick).
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