A man who'd always had charcoal fingers seems to have washed his hands. After 20 years of burning books, Guy Montag met a young girl who led his hands to the water. Clarisse McClellan was "seventeen and crazy," and somehow, she entered his mind and showed him that he was unhappy. Earlier in his life, he'd met an old, cowardly philosopher by the name of Fabor. Fabor also helped push through the thick skull that the society had built up over his brain. Why would these people try to convince Montag that thinking is important? Pleasure is the only thing that you should seek in this society, and you won't get that by thinking! He burned a woman who refused to leave her books, and that made him think that there has to be some sort of great importance
