Exposition
- Main character is Guy Montag, a fireman who burns books
- Other characters are Mildred Montag, his wife, Captain Beatty, his boss, and Clarisse McClellan, his neighbor
- Setting: a year sometime past 2022, in a more advanced city with fireproof houses, faster cars, better machines, and where books are outlawed
Rising Action
- Montag meets Clarisse, his new neighbor, and she talks about how she sees the wonder in everything
- Mildred takes too many sleeping pills, causing emergency hospital people to come in and heal her
- The Mechanical Hound at the firehouse growls at Montag
- The firemen receive an alarm, and burn the house with the books in it, including the woman inside
- Mildred tells Montag that she thinks the reason Clarisse is missing is because she might have been hit by a car
- Captain Beatty gives Montag a lecture on the history of firemen and books
- Montag reveals the 20 books hidden in the ventilator, and tries to read them
- The Hound comes to their house and sniffs under the door
- Montag remembers a professor who can teach him to understand the books, so he calls him and heads to his house
- Montag has a flashback of a sieve and sand
- Mildred has the ladies over, and Montag reads a book to them
- Montag goes to the firehouse and feels guilty around Beatty
- The Firemen get an alarm from a house, which turns out to be Montag's
- Montag burns down his own house
Climax
- Montag burns Captain Beatty to his death, and knocks out the other firemen by hitting them on the backs of their heads
Falling Action
- Montag burns the Mechanical Hound, which attacked him
- Montag gets the books that Mildred didn't find and heads to gas station
- Montag plants the books at another fire station and goes to Faber's house while running from a second Mechanical Hound
- Faber tells Montag to run to the river , swim away from the city, and meet up with other book-loving professors
- Montag escapes the city and finds the professors
Resolution
- Montag agrees to share the books and lines he memorized to help society rediscover books
- An atomic bomb hits the city, blowing up everyone in it, including Mildred
*Background from wallpapers-bank.com, diagram from avoidingatrophy.blogspot.com*