What is the climax of this novel? What happens? How do the events of this novel make you feel?
The climax is when Montag kills Beatty. This is the climax because this is the point of no return for Montag. The moment when he killed Beatty he cannot change back to the past. Murder is something that cannot be returned. When Montag arrived at his house he saw the house empty. Mildred runs out of his house with a suitcase and drove a taxi. Montag does not feel angry at her, however, he feels pity and anger at her. Beatty orders Montag to burn the house by himself. Montag burns everything, and when he is finished, Beatty places Montag under arrest. Beatty strikes his head and the green bullet falls out of Montag’s ear. Beatty switches the green bullet off and thrust it in his pocket. Beatty smiled and gave him more quotations. He demainds Montag to pull the trigger. Beatty let Montag shoot the flamethrower on him and be killed. The other two firemen didn't move. Montag forced them to turn around and beat their heads felling to the ground. Then the Mechanical Hound injects his leg but Montag beats it up. Then he run away.
The events of this novel makes me feel happy but incomprehensible. Montag murdering Beatty made me become less stressful because Beatty's action made me feel angry. Nevertheless, I didn't understand why Beatty would let Guy kill him. I had these questions left behind, "Whether he was trying to make Montag a criminal or giving a choice for him?"
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I asked the similar questions that you asked when I read the climax part of the novel. I also wondered things such as why Beatty let Guy kill him, why Beatty handed him a flame thrower, if Beatty was once a scholar, how come he knew so much about literature, or if Beatty actually wanted to die.
In addition, I had a similar feeling towards the climax. I also had a positive feeling about the death of Beatty because I disliked that character and it gave me less stress after on. I feel like we agree upon the climax and how we felt :)
One question I have is about the part you said "Montag does not feel angry at her, however, he feels pity and anger at her." If Montag wasn't angry at Mildred, how did he feel anger at her. I thought this sentence that you wrote was ambiguous and didn't make sense.
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