There is one quote that stood out to me from the first section of the book, Fahrenheit 451. The quote is "'No, Millie, no! Wait! Stop it, will you? You dont know... stop it!' he slapped her face grabbing her again and shook her. She said his name and began to cry. ' Millie!' he said. ' Listen. Give me a second, will you? We can't do anything. We can't burn these. I want to look at them, at least look at them once. Then if what the captian says is true, we'll burn them together, believe me, we'll burn them together. You must help me.' he said." I think this quote is very importnant to the story because this is when Montag starts going against the government and reads book and has books in his ventilator. This is a symbol of Montag questioning and wondering about the government and why they do things like this. Clarisse is the one who started Montag questioning because she was telling him how she heard in the past firemen put out fire and didnt start fires and burn houses down. If Montag never met Clarisse the book would be completely different.The quote also leads us to the rest of the book because it is sort of giving the reader hints about what might happen to Montag and Mildred and if the government finds that Montag was hiding and reading books. This really proves what kind of person Montag is and how he feels about his career/job. i thought it was interesting that it says that he slapped Mildred because this is just another way of proving he isn't in love with her really at all.
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