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    This document provides an overview of the first part of the novel Fahrenheit 451. It introduces the main character, Guy Montag, who is a fireman in a dystopian future where firemen burn books instead of putting out fires. Montag begins to question his role after meeting his neighbor Clarisse, who makes him realize he may not be as happy as he seemed. The summary then describes an incident where Montag's fire squad burns down a house containing a library and the woman inside lights herself on fire with her books. This further causes Montag to doubt his world and role as a fireman.

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    This document provides an overview of the first part of the novel Fahrenheit 451. It introduces the main character, Guy Montag, who is a fireman in a dystopian future where firemen burn books instead of putting out fires. Montag begins to question his role after meeting his neighbor Clarisse, who makes him realize he may not be as happy as he seemed. The summary then describes an incident where Montag's fire squad burns down a house containing a library and the woman inside lights herself on fire with her books. This further causes Montag to doubt his world and role as a fireman.

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    This document provides an overview of the first part of the novel Fahrenheit 451. It introduces the main character, Guy Montag, who is a fireman in a dystopian future where firemen burn books instead of putting out fires. Montag begins to question his role after meeting his neighbor Clarisse, who makes him realize he may not be as happy as he seemed. The summary then describes an incident where Montag's fire squad burns down a house containing a library and the woman inside lights herself on fire with her books. This further causes Montag to doubt his world and role as a fireman.

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    This document provides an overview of the first part of the novel Fahrenheit 451. It introduces the main character, Guy Montag, who is a fireman in a dystopian future where firemen burn books instead of putting out fires. Montag begins to question his role after meeting his neighbor Clarisse, who makes him realize he may not be as happy as he seemed. The summary then describes an incident where Montag's fire squad burns down a house containing a library and the woman inside lights herself on fire with her books. This further causes Montag to doubt his world and role as a fireman.

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    The Hearth and the Salamander


    Introduction
    In the first part of Fahrenheit 451, the character, named guy Montag, a thirty
    year old man in the distant future, is introduced. This deadly new dystopian future,
    which lets people drive jet cars to relieve of stress, and the role and meaning of
    fireman, as houses are already made fireproofed, made obsolete. However, firemen
    have been given a new occupation; burning and destroying books that interfere with
    governmental propaganda in any way. However, not only does the books have to be
    destroyed, the house containing the book(s) also has to be obliterated. Books,
    therefore, must be destroyed without question.

    For Montag, and many other firemen, it was a pleasure to burn books. This,
    connecting with the pleasure of the incineration of novels and the job of being a
    fireman, makes Montag happy. However, when Montag met Clarisse McClellan his new
    teenage neighbour, Montag realizes that his life was not as happy as it seemed.
    Clarisse gives enlightenment to Montag, for she not only questions about his own
    happiness, but on how the world was before (history). Clarisse therefore opens up a
    lost part of mind Montag had never known, a mind of softness and kindness oblivious
    to the dystopian world in the novel.

    The next morning, he hurriedly enters the fire station and immediately
    confronts the Mechanical hound, who growls at him, sensing Montags depression and
    state of despair. One day at the fire station, there had been report of a woman
    hoarding a library of books. Therefore, when the fire quad pumped the house with
    gas, the woman insisted on lighting herself up with the books, just like what she
    stated before she was dead. The woman evidently saw Montag grabbing one of her
    books, because she said, go on. After the death of the woman, Montag begins to
    question the origin of fire-fighters, and is now confused with the world he lives in.

    After the realization of hiding a book, he confesses to Millie that he had stored
    an armada of books, all big and small. However, Beatty comes to his home, knowing
    that Montag has hidden one book. However, after a lengthy discussion and telling
    Montag to destroy the book within 24 hours, Millie and Montag begin reading their
    first book.

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