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     Montag leaves the house and finds friends along the railway. The people by the train tracks showed Montag the live broadcast of the mechanical hound following and tracking him down. Granger explains how he is like Montag by the fact that once he was chased and he had memorized all of these books. They all had this happen to them and Montag realizes this. Granger tells Montag that they are not the only people that do this, there are people all around the country that do this. They have an effective system so they only read the book one time and then they burn it themselves. 


Literary elements: 

Simile: "When we heard you plunging around out in the forest like a drunken elk we didn't hide like we usually do."

Metaphor: "He was a thing of brush and liquid eye, of fur and muzzle and hoof, he was a thing of horn and blood that would smell like autumn if you bled it out onto the ground."

Allusion: "This id Fred Clement, former occupant of the Thomas Hardy chair at Cambridge before it became an Atomic Engineering School. This id Dr. Simmons from U.C.L.A., a specialist in Ortega y Gasset," 


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