Fahrenheit 451
... as punishment for our sins. When Montag got home, he didn't even feel like turning on the light on and his wife asked him if he was drunk. He was also sweating, and couldn't think properly. Montag soon started to think of things that he had never thought of asking about, such as where he and Mildred had met each other for the first time. The next day he said he was sick. When Beatty, the fire chief, came to check on Montag, Montag desperately wanted him to leave his house. Montag also was wondering why a woman would have died for "worthless" books. He also began to wonder what happened to Clarisse because she was so different and talked about other things than television and meaningless "virtual families". In the morning Montag told Mildred he had books hidden behind the radiator. Despite how Mildred had acted from possession of books, he began to read them. Later he went to Faber's, house and they tried to find someone who could reprint copies of the Bible. Montag soon began to show and tell other people there was nothing wrong with books. Often when we are wondering what to do our wondering why we are doing something, we need to ask others to help us and give their opinion. While some of Mildred's friends were at their house watching television, Montag read some poetry and tried to explain to them why there was nothing wrong with books. Mildred, furious about having books in her house, turned in the fire alarm for their own house and the firemen came to burn it. Montag showed how worthless his life used to be by burning his own house. This is similar to when be become Christians. We like to get rid of everything ...