When Montag arrives at work the first day, he approaches
the Mechanical Hound which growls and extends its silver needle toward him. It keeps
extending it and retracting it, as if not sure if it should attack. When Montag steps
back, the Hound steps forward, obviously becoming the aggressor. Montag complains that
the Hound doesn't like him and hints that maybe someone manipulated its calculators. Its
calculators were set to amino acids, sulfur, butter fat, and alkaline. All of the
firemen's data were set up in the Hound's memory so that it would not attack the
firemen.
The problem is that Montag had already started
collecting books, and Clarisse had started Montag's process of "thinking" and "feeling"
Many believe that the process of thinking and definitely "feeling" create a chemical
and electronic reaction. (see website below). According to
Wikipedia,"A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the
transformation of one set of chemical substances to another". If Montag had a chemical
reaction because he was starting to think and rebel, then the Hound would have
recognized it. It wasn't fully developed yet, so the Hound wasn't sure. If it had been
sure, Montag would have been dead.
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