As soon as they approached the house, Mildred quickly comes out with her suitcase and gets into a taxi and leaves. I have now learnt that Captain Beatty sent the Mechanical Hound to investigate Montag’s house. That is how he knew of the books. Soon after that, Mildred’s two friends also reported the book that Montag possessed. Montag’s own wife, Mildred, even reported him after her friends did. This is a shame that Montag’s own wife would do such a thing. Montag has to burn all the books along with his house by himself with a flamethrower. These were commands by Captain Beatty. This part disgusted me because making Montag flame throw his own house seemed a little overboard. Captain Beatty turned from a friend to being real mean. Once he did as he was told Captain Beatty notices Montag listening to something. It was the device in which allowed him to listen to Faber. The device then fell out of Montag’s ear when Captain Beatty hit him in the head. Captain Beatty picked it up, put it in his pocket and said “Well-so there’s more here than I thought. I saw you tilt your head, listening. First I thought you had a Seashell. But when you turned clever later, I wondered. We’ll trace this and drop it on your friend (Bradbury, 118).” This made Montag really mad. Captain Beatty then went on and one and soon enough he flame threw and killed Captain Beatty. I didn’t really think Montag was crazy enough to really do it but he did. He then knocks out the other firemen and flame throws the mechanical dog after it pounces on him and injects Montag’s leg with anesthetic. After this he goes to the back yard where he hid the books and discovers that Mildred missed four books. He takes them and hobbles on down the street. I’m proud of Montag for sticking up for his beliefs in the book. Even though what he did was outrageous he was doing it for all the right reasons in his mind.
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