Pages 151-158 : Montag is able to watch the Hound track him by glancing through people’s house windows into their TV parlors. As Montag continues to run toward the river, he hears an announcement on his Seashell radio telling everyone to get up and look out their doors and windows for him on the count of ten. He reaches the river just as the announcer counts to ten and all the doors in the neighborhood start to open. To keep the Hound from picking up his scent, he wades into the river and drifts away with the current. He avoids the searchlights of the police helicopters, and then sees them turn and fly away. Granger’s ironic welcoming of Montag back from the dead symbolizes Montag’s rebirth into a more meaningful life. Bradbury employs butterfly imagery throughout the book, specifically to describe the “death” of burning books, so the idea of metamorphosis or transformation has been foreshadowed. The fact that the men can recover every word of books they have read makes them living conduits to the dead.

Reading level:

The reading level of my book is fairly low, which was expected. It landed between a 9th and 8th grade level. Once I started reading the book, I noticed that the book was written in a very simple manner and it was not challenging to read.

 

I did not particularly enjoy this book, it lacked plot twist and an interesting plot altogether. I was never really enticed to keep reading this book because it was predictable and uninteresting. I think the author had a good idea for the book and I could have been much more interesting but the writing was executed poorly. 

Guy Montag -  A third-generation fireman who suddenly realizes the emptiness of his life and starts to search for meaning in the books he is supposed to be burning

Mildred Montag -  Montag’s brittle, sickly looking wife. 

Captain Beatty -  The captain of Montag’s fire department.