F451 Summary Part 1

           So far in the book we have learned various things. First of all, we learned who some of our characters were: Guy Montag, Clarisse, and Mildred. They are all distinctive from each other. Montag is a firefighter, who is married to Mildred. Clarisse is a person who is happy and has a good relationship with her family. We also learned that the title of this book " Fahrenheit 451" is the temperature at which book burns and that is Montag's job.
             Montag is a firefighter who, job is to burn books, but he is a depressed man who thinks he is happy until Clarisse comes along and questions him. She asks him "Are you happy?" That's when he begins to question himself and his happiness. Through Clarisse we learn that her family actually talks to each other which was not usual in their society. Our now called televisions are called parlor walls in their society which take away their ability to talk basically.
             After their encounter, Montag returns home to fin his wife, Mildred, unresponsive because she has overdosed on sleeping pills. She has Seashell Radios in her ears which are headphones that help her fall asleep. From this scenario we learn that overdosing in their society is quite frequent and an ordinary thing that happens. There's machines that were created to 'fix' this problem in such little time. This incident with his wife causes Montag to realize that he doesn't know anything about his wife. He only know how interested she is in her "family" which is the images on her TV.