In Fahrenheit 451, when he finally discusses books and reading with his wife, Mildred, Montag stresses the potential importance of literature. To this, sensing her husband's dismay and urgency, Mildred asks why anyone should read books. In response to this, Montag embarks on a vitriolic rant about life and death and whether they have any meaning.
He tells his wife about a snake he had seen the other day, dying but alive, and how it could see and feel what happened to it but could do nothing to stop it. He brings up how Clarisse had been killed for her love of books, and he discusses the never-ending wars and the bombers constantly in the sky. In the end, he concludes that books may hold the keys to preventing civilization's collapse, if only we would read them.
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