Fahrenheit 451: Burning Bright

The title for this section is a reference to the burning that occur at several points throughout the section. The section begins as Guy Montag is called to his house by an alarm designating his house must be burnt. He sees Mildred leaving with a packed suitcase and deduces that she called the firemen to the house. Beatty leads him into the house and hands him a flamethrower telling him that he must burn down the house by himself and if he attempts to escape he will be killed. But then Guy comes up with the bright idea of roasting Beatty alive with his new found flamethrower. Beatty toasts up pretty good (Guy must like his human well-done. Ha joke.) After killing his boss (He was fed up with those lousy hours! Ok I'm done.) Guy escape into his yard and digs up the remaining books he has been hoarding which amounts to four. The mechanical hound injects his leg making it go numb but as he does with all his problems he burns it. He runs away as news choppers begin to track him as does another mechanical hound. He hides his books in a co-worker's house (that's what you get for stealing my lunch! Ok sorry I promise I'm done now) and calls an alert to his house to distract the firemen. Then he runs to Faber's house and learn to follow the railroad tracks out until he meets some hobos and Guy tells him how to get rid of his scent in the house. Guy runs to a river and jumps in to make the hound lose his scent. He floats down the river for a while until he washes onto shore and walks on until finding the group of hobos. The leader introduces himself as Granger and tells Montag they are memorizing books for when the world ends and they can rebuild society. Not long after this the bombs drop and the city is vaporized. The group then walks up river to start a new life and be reborn as a collective whole just like the phoenix.