Fahrenheit 451: A Short Story

Montag jolted awake. He looked over out his window and he realized it was all a dream. It was raining outside, as if symbolizing his new beginning. He slowly got up and walked downstairs . He grabbed a raincoat and walked outside. The rain washed over him like the christening of a new born baby, the rain on his skin felt so good he stood there for awhile, thinking. What did this dream mean…? He stood outside for a while just letting the falling rain bring him new thoughts. Then, he walked back inside and fell asleep.
When he awoke he did the same as he did the night before, he looked out the window but this time it was different than it had been. The land around his house had been laid to waist. There was a gigantic hole in his house.The sky outside was …show more content…
He still couldn’t see so he felt it best to play dead. he stopped moving and eventually his vision returned to him. As his eyes adjusted to the darkness he heard voices coming from behind him. He turn around too quickly and felt a sharp pain in his neck. Ow! What happened to me? Finally his eyes had adjusted. He turned around cautiously this time. He saw a light coming from the end of what seems like a tunnel. He crawled toward it for he feared what would happen to his legs if he attempted to walk. Eventually he got to where the light was coming from. It came from a fire, and around that fire sat 3 men. Behind them were tents and boxes of money and food.
They had firearms in their laps and were eating some sort of meat. one man noticed him and immediately grabbed his weapon and aimed it at Montag. “Don’t move” yelled the man. One of the men sitting around the fire got up and picked Montag up from where he was crouching. He brought him over to the fire and sat him down on the bench. He reached to another table and dropped two things in Montag’s lap. The first was a plate of food, roast beef and potatoes. The second, was a