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Essay / Comprehension Question - 1567
How does Montag feel about his feelings if his wife died? Montag began to think about how his marriage to Mildred began, which they both do not remember. His thoughts were as follows: “He remembered thinking then that if she died, he was sure he wouldn't cry. Because it would be the death of a stranger, a face from the street, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so false that he began to cry, not at death but at the idea of not not cry at death, a stupid and empty man next to him. a stupid and empty woman, while the hungry snake made her even emptier. ” (Page 41), meaning that Montag will not be sad about the fact that Mildred is dead but about how he only feels empty and how society has made him deprived of emotions. What are Montag's comments about the people in the walls? Montag looks at Mildred who is watching the "parents" in the living room walls. He wants to tell her that Montag is not in love with her, just like the relationship between the people in the walls. They are all fake and all superficial, invented to lure viewers into watching television. What does Montag think of the old woman and all the books he destroyed? Montag keeps thinking about the old woman who burned herself with the books. He feels terribly guilty and even nauseated because of the situation he experienced as a fireman (perhaps also because Montag was unable to save the old women) but at the same time, Montag envy him also that the old women may be content with her life of having and enjoying books.Summarize Beatty's explanation of how the need for firefighters arose. Captain Beatty explains their job as a firefighter when Montag was still haunted by the old woman incident. Indeed, everything is fireproof. Their job was to publish the middle of a government-controlled paper - Montag reconnects with his past and finally remembers where he met Mildred (it was Chicago). promise at the end of the novel? The promise at the end of the novel is that, just like Phoenix, from the destroyed world, another new world formed by the "people of the book" will be built and that as a legacy, the memorized books will be passed on to subsequent generations. Moreover, the difference between phoenix and human is that human can learn from their mistake and fix it for the future. At the end of the novel, Montag recalls a passage from the Bible (allusion): “And on each side of the river there was a tree of life, which had twelve kinds of fruit, and which yielded its fruit every month; And the leaves of the tree were used to heal the nations. » Which means that the time of destruction is over; the time of rebirth has begun.