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Beatty In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

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In the book Fahrenheit 451 Montag was forced to make a split second choice by Beatty. To kill Beatty or to let himself fall in the other norm of society . Beatty was the chief of the firemen and with that power he made Montag burn down his house. Beatty also took it upon himself to send the hound to Montag's place to try and scare him into submission. Montag is not guilty for killing Beatty and here is why. Montag was trying to protect Faber. Wen Beatty hit Montag in the head a green bullet fell out of his ear .This green bullet was a communicator that Faber was using to help Montag. Wen Beatty got a hold of the green bullet and found out its purpose he told Montag that he was going track the signal to find Montag’s friend (Bradbury 112). …show more content…

Montag was a fireman himself so he know that owning a book was illegal and he owns 20. So wen Beathy handed him a flamethrower and told him to burn down his house he did so. When he finished Beauty told him he was under arrest witch scared Montag so he tried to run even tho the hound would easily catch him and kill him. Wen Montag started to run Beatty hit him in the head (Bradbury 112) . Montag could have taken this as a sign of aggression because he showed no intent to hurt Beatty before this point . When Montag got to his feet he pointed the flamethrower at Beatty. Beatty then continued to prod the hornet's nest by insulting Montag witch pushed him even further over the line of holding back. The book can confirm this because it says when Montag looks back on this point he doesn't know if it was is hands doing it or what Beatty says that finally pushed him to murder (Bradbury 112) This action can be compare to the actions that caused the U.S. to join WW2. When Japan attacked pearl harbor in an act to cripple the U.S. naval support the U.S. refused to accept defeat after being attacked to in an act to defend The U.S. as a hole the U.S. joined WW2. Some people might assume that maybe Montag just wanted to get Beatty of his back for always pushing him around or that maybe Montag just did not like Beatty .If that is true why did Montag kill Beatty in front of a lot of people and one of his biggest fears the hound. Sure maybe it was the

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