Friday, October 14, 2011

What becomes of the mechanical hound in Part 3 Fahrenheit 451?

There are two different mechanical hounds seen in this
part of the book.  We know that one of them is destroyed by fire, and we assume that the
other one is as well, but we don't know for sure.


The first
hound is the one from Montag's fire station.  After Montag kills Captain Beatty with his
flamethrower outside Montag's house, the hound attacks him.  The hound does not fully
inject its poison into Montag so Montag is able to destroy it.  He incinerates it with
his flamethrower.


Later, another hound is brought to hunt
Montag.  He escapes it by jumping in the river and then later by drinking the liquid
that Granger gives him to disguise his scent.  The hound goes back to the city and kills
someone else so that the government can say that they caught Montag.  That hound
presumably gets destroyed when the city is bombed.


So, both
hounds presumably burn.  Montag gets the first one and the other one is destroyed by the
bombing.

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