Part one certainly ends with a bang. It is revealed that Guy Montag, loyal firefighter extraordinaire, had been hoarding books for a while now. It does not sound like he has actually read any of them yet, but just the fact that he has them is cause enough for burning. I guess it really should not have come as such a surprise, given the previous allusions to something hidden in the heating vent, but I was only expecting him to have one or two books hidden there- not twenty. And what really surprises me is that the fire chief Beatty never noticed him stealing the books in the first place. I can see how one might have slipped under the radar, but twenty? The fire chief really needs to get his head in the game.
The history of their world sounds like absolute crap to me. They got rid of books so people would not think anymore and could be happy? What about all the people whose whole life revolves around books? What about the librarians? A librarian's happiness comes from sharing loved books with people in the hopes they can make them happy as well. It sounds to me like the people of that world just got lazy and stupid. What really struck me was the wife and her TV walls. She made her husband spend all that money just so she could "talk" to her relatives. The sad thing is, she does not even know who they are or why they are fighting and angry at each other. It seems that they don't know that themselves. And the wife doesn't see a problem with this. She doesn't even realise that deep down, she's so unhappy that she would take her own life.
I can't belive that Clarisse died. That just seemed so sudden and cruel on the author's part. She was the one who opened Montag's eyes to the way the world should be, and she won't even be around to see what happens because of that.
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