Summarize: Clarrise is gone, Montag tries to talk to the other firemen about thinking and ideas. When the foremen go to a house they discover a woman still inside, ruining there usual routine. Montag steals a book. This woman lights herself and her books on fire, commiting suicide and trying to start a revolution.
Discuss: Since Clarrise leaves Montag must now fill the thinking void that she opened up in him. When he steals a book he commits his first true act of rebellion. This book may make hime eager to read other books. Montag begins to feel guilt at burning books because of the woman.
Literary Elements:
Alusion - When the woman says "Play the man, master Ridley...ect" allusion to Hugh Laimer, a Protestant matyr. Means to start a revolution.
Symbol: The women who killed herself was a symbol that people will do incredible things when challeneged and as a sort of omen for change. The fact that she remained nameless is perhaps a representation that anyone can start a revolution, it doesn't have to be someone with great power.
Characters: Beatty, we were introduced to him in pgs 20-30 not actually in pgs30-40. He is a man with no questions to ask, completely rational.
An unnamed woman, she is a great reader, couragous, and believes in books
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