Any rational reader paying careful attention to Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, should notice that the protagonist, Guy Montag, possesses books in his vent long before the novel reveals that fact, due to the novel’s foreshadowing. It should be self-evident when the book reveals that, as the book constantly gives clues throughout the text. The book gives its first clue when Montag enters his dark home, “...looking up at the ventilator grill [...], something seemed to peer down at him now. He moved his eyes quickly away” (8). This line does not seem of much importance, but it lets the reader know that the vent exists and that there is something inside it; it occupies the mind subconsciously. After the Hound, a mechanical dog that hunts