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Part One of “Fahrenheit 451” is about a fireman who burns books in a future where anything that provokes thought or is unhappy is censored. In the beginning of Part One, the main character Montag is just like any other American and has fun burning books and hardly thinks anything about them at all. Then a girl named Clarisse starts to make him think about his life and about the books. By the end of Part One, he admits to his wife that he stole many books and starts to read them. The other important characters of Part One are Beatty, Clarisse, and Mildred. Beatty is Montag’s boss, the fire captain. He is well educated and yet hates books and the people who read them. He is very clever and a good talker, and often persuades Montag to think what Beatty wants him to think. Clarisse is a high school girl that moves in next door to Montag. Sh