F451. Pg. 32-50

Robby Treadwell

2/26/13

32-50

Period 4

Summary: The bell at the fire station rings, and the men go to the place and meet Beatty a women in charge. They go up to an attic and light all the books and magazines on fire. But, then Beatty takes a match and lights the kerosene making a huge fire. We also find out Clarisse got ran over by a car most likely and is dead.

Quotation: "Where's your common sense? None of these books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Bable. Snap out of it! The people in these books never lived. Come on now!"

Quotation Significance: This quote answers my answer from last nights litblog of why they burn the books. They burn the books if the people in them didn't live, or if the books weren't related. 

Reflection: This was an interesting group of pages to read at the beginning. I got confused towards the end of the chapter when Montag asks his wife where they met and stuff. After that the rest of the pages were confusing except for the part when they talk about where Clarisse goes. That would be really sad if Clarisse really did get ran over because she was a very nice young girl. I thought it was funny to picture just a bunch of firemen just shoveling out someones precious magazines and lighting them on fire. Beatty shows a lot of courage too when she pulls out the match and scares all the men. I thought that was funny as well. 

Discussion Question: Is Clarisse really dead?