Fahrenheit 451 summary

Fahrenheit 451 is a book that is about a man by the name of guy montag that is a firefighter that instead of putting out fires starts them in house that are owned by people who have books. In this futuristic world, sum what like ares, books are illegal to have getting your house burnt down if suspected to have any. In the story montag gets asked by a girl that lived next to him if he was happy. This and the burning of lady who would rather burn with her books than loose them sets montag over the edge making him stop going to work and stay home with his wife reading books that montag had been stealing from different houses they burn. Beatty his fire chief comes to his house after montag stops coming to work telling him that what he's going through is normal and all he needs to do is burn the books and come back to work. Instead he goes to an old teacher named faber asking him if there's a way he can print the books he has so he can give back the other copy to Beatty. One night montag goes to the fire station to talk to Beatty and there is a call for the firefighters to go burn a house and they end up at montags house. As the firefighters start to burn his house montag takes a flame thrower type thing and kills Beatty.