* The woman on the porch reached out with contempt to them all and struck the kitchen match against the railing
Mildred!
Guy Montag, firemen, encounters, seventeen-year-old, Clarisse McClellan. Clarisse questions Montag about life in general which gets Montag thinking about things he´s never really thought about . All Montag has ever done is burn books but Clarisse opens his eyes about the emptiness in his life.
I stole it
The book-where did you-?
The firemen respond to an alarm that an old woman has a stash of hidden books in her house. The old woman refuses to leave her house and chooses to be burned alive along with her books.
I want you to do this job all by your lonesome, Montag. Not with kerosene and a match , but piecework , with a flamethrower. Your house, your clean up.
Montag comes home to find, his wife, Mildred overdosed on sleeping pills. He rushes to make an emergency call to the hospital. Later, two men with two machines come to pump out Mildred´s stomach.
Montag took a book from the old woman. Montag goes to visit Faber, an old man he meet at the park, to learn more about what the books hold. Faber explains to Montag the value of books which conceives of quality, leisure, and the freedom to take action.
The alarm goes off at the station and all the firemen rush off to answer it. Montag comes to surprise when he realizes that the alarm is coming from his own house. Mildred had betrayed him. Captain Beatty forces montag to burn his own house and proceeds to out Montag under arrest for having books in his house. Montag burns Captain Beatty alive with the flamethrower and runs away.
As Montag makes a run for it and manages to escape, he comes across Granger. Granger goes on to help Montag. Granger teaches Montag the importance and purpose of life.