Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start firesThe system was simple Everyone understood it Books were for burningalong with the houses in which they were hiddenGuy Montag enjoyed his job He had been a fireman for ten years and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flamesnever questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraidThen he met a professor who told him of a future in which people could thinkand Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do
