The book i am responding to is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In Fahrenheit 451, there is a particular event in the book that rather shocked me. In section 1, from pages 33 to 37, Montag and his fire crew get a call to an elderly womans house in the middle of the night to burn her books. The firefighters demand she tell them where the books are and they tear up her house looking for them. What surprises me the most is that the firefighters start the fires and don 't put them out like in our modern day world. The firefighters also burn whole houses down, “Beatty flicked his fingers to spark the kerosine. It was too late. Montag gasped. The woman on the porch reached out with contempt to them all, and struck the kitchen match against the railing.”