Part 3 - Burning Bright
Burning Bright, the third and final part of this book, starts of with Montag in front of his house. Beatty is talking to him when Mildred rushes out of the house with a suitcase and is driven away in a taxi. Montag realizes that she betrayed him and sounded the alarm. He is forced to burn his own house down. Montag burns everything, and after, he is placed under arrest. Beatty sees that Montag is listening to something so hits him on the head. The green bullet shaped radio from Faber falls out of his ear. Beatty then picks it up, saying that he will have it traced to find the person on the other end. Beatty eggs Guy on with literary quotes and eventually, Montag uses his flamethrower to burn Beatty. Then the Mechanical Hound turns up and injects Montag’s leg with an anesthetic before he manages to destroy it. He stumbles away on his numb leg.
He hears sirens approaching and runs until the numbness leaves his leg. Guy puts a Seashell radio in his ear and hears a police alert telling people to be look out for him. He also hears that war has been declared. He starts to cross a wide street and is almost hit by a car. At first, he thinks it is the police coming to get him, but then Montag realizes the car’s passengers are children, and he wonders if they were the ones who killed Clarisse. Guy goes into a firemen's house, hides some books and calls in an alarm.
He then goes to Faber’s house to tell him what happened. Together, they devise a plan for Montag to run away. He is supposed to follow railroad tracks out of town and to look for a group of intellectuals. Faber then tells Guy to meet him in St. Louis sometime in the future, where he is going to meet a retired printer. They turn on the TV and hear that another Mechanical Hound has been sent out after Montag. He takes a suitcase full of Faber’s old clothes, tells the professor how to take his scent of the professor's house so the Hound will not stop there, and runs off.
He reaches a river and swims in it in order to wash his scent off and make the hound lose his scent. He changes into Faber's old clothes. After he gets out of the river, he finds the railroad tracks and starts to follow them. After a while, he sees a campfire with me huddled around it. A man named Granger comes and introduces everyone. He shows Montag the TV and they start watching the chase. They see that the Hound has actually gone the other way and found a scapegoat who is said to be Guy. The scapegoat is chased down and killed.
After the chase is finished, Granger explains his philosophy of memorizing books to keep them “alive”. He explains that they memorize them until they can write them down again and introduce them back into society. Then, they see a plane dropping a bomb and they watch it slowly descend. Then, the bomb hits and there is a huge explosion. After, Granger compares mankind to a phoenix rising again and again from its own ashes, and comments that they will first need to build a mirror factory to take a long look at themselves. The men turn upriver toward the city to help the survivors rebuild from the ashes.
He hears sirens approaching and runs until the numbness leaves his leg. Guy puts a Seashell radio in his ear and hears a police alert telling people to be look out for him. He also hears that war has been declared. He starts to cross a wide street and is almost hit by a car. At first, he thinks it is the police coming to get him, but then Montag realizes the car’s passengers are children, and he wonders if they were the ones who killed Clarisse. Guy goes into a firemen's house, hides some books and calls in an alarm.
He then goes to Faber’s house to tell him what happened. Together, they devise a plan for Montag to run away. He is supposed to follow railroad tracks out of town and to look for a group of intellectuals. Faber then tells Guy to meet him in St. Louis sometime in the future, where he is going to meet a retired printer. They turn on the TV and hear that another Mechanical Hound has been sent out after Montag. He takes a suitcase full of Faber’s old clothes, tells the professor how to take his scent of the professor's house so the Hound will not stop there, and runs off.
He reaches a river and swims in it in order to wash his scent off and make the hound lose his scent. He changes into Faber's old clothes. After he gets out of the river, he finds the railroad tracks and starts to follow them. After a while, he sees a campfire with me huddled around it. A man named Granger comes and introduces everyone. He shows Montag the TV and they start watching the chase. They see that the Hound has actually gone the other way and found a scapegoat who is said to be Guy. The scapegoat is chased down and killed.
After the chase is finished, Granger explains his philosophy of memorizing books to keep them “alive”. He explains that they memorize them until they can write them down again and introduce them back into society. Then, they see a plane dropping a bomb and they watch it slowly descend. Then, the bomb hits and there is a huge explosion. After, Granger compares mankind to a phoenix rising again and again from its own ashes, and comments that they will first need to build a mirror factory to take a long look at themselves. The men turn upriver toward the city to help the survivors rebuild from the ashes.