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  • Essay / Narrative Structure and Characters in Fahrenheit 451 By...

    This begins the rising action of the novel. While at the fire station, they receive a call. Guy and the team, accompanied by Captain Beatty, head towards the house. They come in and start burning the books. The woman who lives there is, so to speak, frozen. She doesn't leave the house when Guy tells her to go out, she just stays put. All the other firefighters and the captain come out and tell Guy to leave too. Guy does his best to convince the woman to leave but she stays and burns down with the house. This makes Guy think that there must be something in the books. He thinks there must be something in them to make someone want to stay in a burning house. The next day, Guy doesn't go to work, so he asks Mildred to call Beatty and tell him he's sick. Beatty ends up showing up at his house to check on him. While Beatty is there, he explains to Guy the importance and history of his work. Guy had taken a book home and hid it under his pillow. While Beatty is there, his wife comes in and tries to fluff the pillow. Guy gets angry and yells at his wife and tells her to leave him alone, but not before she realizes what's under the pillow. After Beatty leaves, Guy takes a ladder and pulls them out from the ceiling, opens them and begins reading them. They spent the whole afternoon browsing and reading