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Montag lives in a society where books aren’t allowed, but when he starts realizing things his feelings change about books and love. Clarisse a girl comes into Montag’s life and shows him a different view in love. Also, an old man, Fabor, Montag met at the park shows Montag a different view in books. Montag believed that reading books were useless and that he’s in love with mildred, but towards the end Montag learns from Clarisse and Fabor that books are more than words on paper and that he wasn’t really in love with Mildred.

In the beginning, Montag believed he loved Mildred and cared for her and never bothered getting into reading books. For example, Mildred wasn’t feeling good so Montag took her to the hospital, “Mildred! Her face was like
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For instance, Montag tries convincing Mildred that books are a great thing and have stories behind them, “He read a dozen pages here or there and came at last to this: It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.” Mildred sat across the hall from him. “What does it mean? It doesn’t mean anything! The captain was right.” “Here now,” said Montag. “We’ll start over again at the beginning.” Pg. 72. Basically, Mildred is not taking Montag’s lesson about books seriously. Mildred believes Beatty and takes Beatty’s side. Montag then decides to go to Fabor Montag remembers what Fabor has said to him when they met in the park. Fabor had told Montag poems he had read and said, “I don’t talk things sir, I talk the meaning of things” Pg. 77. Montag needed Fabor’s help printing more books and knew that Fabor would help. To sum it up, Mildred didn’t agree with Montag, which proves Mildred doesn’t support or show love for Montag, so Montag goes to Fabor for

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