Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury :: Ray Bradburys Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 Ray BradburyGuy Montag is a fireman in the future in charge of burning books. On his way home from take a crap one evening, he meets his new neighbor, an inquisitive 17-year-old girl named Clarisse McClellan.She asks him about his job and tells him she comes from a strange family that does such peculiar things as talk to each other and walk places (being a pedestrian is, like reading, against the law). She askshim if he is happy and then disappears into her house. The meeting disturbs Montag, who is not used to talking with people. He goes home and realizes he is not happy, that his appearance of happiness upto this point has been just a mask. He finds his wife, Mildred, in bed listening to earplug radios, just as he has found her each night for the past two years. He finds an empty bottle of sleeping pills by her bedand calls the emergency hospital just as a sonic boom from a squadron of jet bombers shakes the house. The hospital sends out two workers with machin es that pump Mildreds stomach and replace all her bloodwith fresh blood. Montag goes outside and listens to the laughter and the voices approach path from the McClellan house. Montag goes in again and considers all that has happened to him that night and feels terribly disoriented as he takes a sleep lozenge and dozes off.The next day, Mildred remembers nothing about her act suicide and denies it when Montag tries to tell her about it. He leaves for work and finds Clarisse outside walking in the rain, catching it in her gumshield. She rubs a dandelion under her chin and says it marrow shes in love when the pollen rubs off on her. She rubs it under his chin, but no pollen rubs off. She asks him why he chose to be a fireman and says he is unlike the others she has met, who go away not talk to her or listen to what she says to them. He tells her to get along to her appointment with her psychiatrist. After she is gone, he tilts hishead back and catches the rain in his mouth for a f ew moments.Montag reaches down to touch the Mechanical Hound in the fire station, and it growls at him and threatens him. Montag tells Captain Beatty what happened and suggests that someone may have