F451 Day8 HW

"He could see the helicopters falling falling like the first flakes of snow in the long winter to come"(Bradbury 129).

As Montag begins to run away, he can sense the urgency and length of his journey to come. He knows that for every obstacle he encounters now, there will be countless more challenging up ahead. He knows it is him against the world. The first helicopters do not pose too much of a threat to Montag, and he is able to over come them with a certain ease, just as one is not impeded by a little bit of snow. But as the search for him gets worse, his life will become one big blizzard.

"Beatty wanted to die"(Bradbury 122).

Beatty had provoked Montag tirelessly, forcing him to burn his own home and books, all the while tormenting and taunting him with quotes. However, Beatty had never seemed to consider the possibility of Montag turning and pointing his fire at him. Why not? With all of his vast knowledge and ideas, Beatty must know that when given a motive and a weapon, and years of abuse, this was something Montag might do. So why provoke him, Beatty had nothing to gain from harping on Montag, so maybe he did want to die. Maybe his knowledge left him lonely, isolated from a world that relates better with "white clowns" and "families" than they do with real people. Maybe Beatty saw the error of his ways, and wished to end it all, but had no way to explain why. Maybe, in his final moments, Beatty wanted to be a martyr. By allowing Montag to kill him, Beatty would in turn, make Montag the subject of police attention. In isolating Montag, it would keep him from being able to spread his new thoughts on the world to any other radical people. But maybe, just maybe, Beatty did not want to die. No book in the world could have prepared him for a sudden burst of temper and flame.