Fahrenheit 451 Dialectical Journal

At the beginning, Montag begins to wander to a gas station and cleans up. Through the radio, he hears that the war has officially started. Montag is nearly run over by a speeding car, that he thinks is the police, but ends up just being careless teenagers; the car left tread marks on his middle finger where it skidded over. He wonders if those could have been the same people that killed Clarisse. Montag then walks to the house of one of his co-workers, Mr. Black, and hides the books in her kitchen before going to a phone booth to call an alarm on his house. Montag then goes to Faber to tell him what has happened. When Montag finally arrives at Faber's house, he informs him of the situation and together they devise a plan to get Montag to safety and to start to print books again. Montag gives Faber money for the printer to start his business again in St. Louis, and both plan to meet there eventually. Faber, who turns on the news and sees a Mechanical Hound and a helicopter in search of Montag, gives Montag dirty clothes and whiskey to keep the Hound from finding him and instructs him to find the camps of the homeless by following the rusting railroad tracks into the country. Faber will then have to rid his house of Montag's scent and take a bus to …show more content…
He's relieved when the Hound only hesitates at Faber's house and then keeps going. Every person in every house is watching, and in order to help find Montag, the announcer on the Seashell radio gives everyone a count to ten to look outside for him, which they all do. By that time, Montag had reached the river, and put on Faber's garments and the whiskey to mask his scent; he keenly avoids the helicopter searchlights as he drifts downstream. Washing aground in the country, Montag’s senses are overcome by nature's smells, sights, and sounds. As he continues to follow the railroad tracks, Montag realizes Clarisse had been there as