How Does Montag Escape From Fahrenheit 451

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Montag’s escape from his city and Beatty was very thrilling. So many things happened. Beatty ended up getting killed by Montag with a flamethrower because Beatty knew about Faber. But Montag knew he wanted to die anyways. He first was just going through alleys and having no idea where in the world he was going but ended up going to Faber’s house. While they were at Faber’s house, Faber turned on the TV and Montag was all over the screen. Police doing everything they can to find Montag and they are starting to bring the Hound out to look for him. I guess the Hound always finds what they are looking for because it can smell so many different types of scents. So Faber and Montag have an idea that Faber turns the sprinklers on outside, blasts the air conditioner, give Montag Faber’s dirty clothes that have scents of him on …show more content…
The Hound actually ends up not going to Faber’s house, luckily their plan worked. On the way to the river he stops at some houses to look through the window to see where the Hound is at. While he was watching they had the idea that everyone that was watching the Hound go out of their house and see if they see Montag somewhere. So they count down and Montag is almost out of the long lane of houses and when they get to about two or one he makes it in the dark spot right next to the river. Then he ends up putting on Faber’s dirty clothes on and just floats on down the river for a long time. He finally gets to this unusual place to him. It was a camp of intellectuals along the river. He meets these people that memorize books before someone burns them so they still have that knowledge of the book so you can share it with the others that are memorizing other books. If they have to burn books, they still want that knowledge that are in them so each person gets assign a book and they read it and memorize and share it with

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