Summary: Beatty finaly reveals that he knows montag has been hording books. He forces Montag to burn his own house. Montag went crazy from all the pressure and taunting of Beatty and aimed his flamethrower at him and killed Beatty. After this he had no choice but to flee, escaping from the firemen, and eventually the city.
Descriptive Selection: I really enjoyed the description Bradbury used when montag was "killing" the mechanical hound.
"Montag caught it with a bloom of fire, a sinle wondrous blossom the curled in petals of yellow and blue and orange about the metal dog, clad it in a new covering as it slammed inot Montag and threw him ten feet back against the bole of a tree, taking the flame gun with him. He felt it scrabble and seize his led and stab the needle in for a moment before the fire snapped the Hound up in the air, burst its metal bones at the joints and blew out its interior in a single flushing red color like a skyrocked fastenend to the street."
I thought this was a significant part because Montag is defeating something he has long feared. The author portrays this by describing the fire as if resembling a flower. You can almost imagine the flames curling out of the flamethrower as he elagantly describes the petals. Then the needle stabbing into him sends shivers down the reader's spine. As he describes the hound dying, you can practically hear the mechanical yelp and howl.
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hey you biter!! you took my quote! oh well... I agree though the needle did assert a kind of shivery feeling and the blossom of fire really created a beautiful description.
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