“…and sat mumbling, ‘Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone, everything, everything gone now…’” (Bradbury 114). Mildred, his own wife, called the fire department because of the books Montag kept. Not only did she just call the fire department, but she called the one place that Montag worked and was already on the edge of being fired and put in prison. In one shot he lost his wife and job and in pages to come, his home. Many people would just give up, give Beatty the books within the 24 hours or just burn the rest of them but not Montag.
After, while Montag was igniting his house, Beatty claimed, "When you're quite finished, you're under arrest" (Bradbury 111). Captain Beatty was also reading books in his life secretly. But instead, he punishes Montag for reading books secretly just like him. Betraying others cannot reward you in the end; Captain Beatty died with pain from the heat of a
It was a Wednesday afternoon when Book-burning-ben came to town and started burning all of the schools books. We cried for help thinking that all of our books would end up being destroyed. In a quick matter of seconds Captain Do It All came to our rescue. Captain Do It All first made sure that all of the town was okay and that we back away from the situation so that way we would be safe and out of harm’s way. Captain Do It All flew up to try and stop Book-burning-ben, Captain Do It All tried reasoning with him but he was not having it.
She decides to tell herself that with each strike, she won’t be killing someone as much as she’ll be letting someone else live. She will be saving someone’s life. Chapter 4: In this chapter, a man comes to West’s house and delivers the news that she has been assigned her alt. They have one month for one of them to get killed by the other. If neither of them prove they’re worthiness, the board kills them both.
Shortly after Montag arrives at home, he realizes his commanding officer, Captain Beatty has discovered he is hoarding books. He then decides that he has to burn his house down. After he is done, he is arrested. He then proceeds to burn Captain Beatty to ashes. He runs and later arrives at Faber’s house.
Throughout the book so far, Okonkwo has done countless actions without even thinking about the consequences. For example, he impulsively beats his wife during the week of peace forgetting that he is not supposed to do that and will be forced to repent. You could say that he somewhat lives his life in the moment and doesn’t consider the future. He without a second thought kills Ikemefuna and never would have thought that he would be so emotionally scared. | “It was on his fourth trip that he had found Ekwefi, and by then he had become gravely worried.”Chapter 12 pg.82 | As the story progresses Okonkwo continues to appear more and more like a warm loving fatherly figure.
The first death that really rattles Montag is when the firemen are getting ready to burn a house down, and the woman that lived there started herself and her books on fire. When he got home from that, he found out that Clarisse had died. His wife, Mildred, has an addiction to pills that will most likely eventually kill her too. Teen murdered
After a week of barely showing up to work, and going on spontaneous dates with the local waitress, Peter finds that he is going to be promoted, while Samir and Michael are going to be laid off. The layoffs lead Peter to convince Michael to infect the work computers, with Samir’s help, with a virus that would secretly steal money from the company. This goes terribly wrong when Michael misplaces a decimal and instead of fractions of a penny going missing, full dollars go missing. When Peter goes to turn in his confession, fully knowing he is going to go to jail, he finds the office in a much unexpected state. Milton, the worker who had been laid off five years ago, but no one had told him, was finally fed up with being walked all over and set the building on fire, something he had muttered about before.
41) Nick says when Nick is at the asylum to help Lewis direct. This is also when Nick and Lewis fight verbally. He doesn’t appreciate the meeting that the opera has for the patients, and sees both the patient’s attitudes and opera itself as “right wing crap”. Nick has a low tolerance for the quirks of the patients, and insensitive towards them, making a joke about their situation. Nick and Lucy didn’t even go to watch the play “Cosi”.
He also wanted to kill himself because he couldn’t handle it anymore. He was tired of seeing his family suffer from something that wasn’t even his fault. A plan that South El Monte High School has if someone would try to commit suicide is quite hard because they say that every case is unique. They would have to be notified by someone close or a friend at school who they have spoken about committing suicide. If they do try and stop the student from committing suicide they will bring a therapist to help them with their problems, therefore if the student acts crazy they have the authority to hold him in for twenty four hours.