English, 19.09.2019 13:30 elisesnelson

Read the passage from fahrenheit 451, in which mildred is making the bed during the conversation between montag and beatty.
mildred smoothed the bedclothes. montag felt his heart jump and jump again as she patted his pillow. right now she was pulling at his shoulder to try to get him to move so she could take the pillow out and fix it nicely and put it back. and perhaps cry out and stare or simply reach down her hand and say, “what’s this? ” and hold up the hidden book with touching innocence.
“school is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, english and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts? ”
“let me fix your pillow,” said mildred.
“no! ” whispered montag.
“the zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.”
mildred said, “here.”
“get away,” said montag.
“life becomes one big pratfall, montag; everything bang, boff, and wow! ”
“wow,” said mildred, yanking at the pillow.
“for god’s sake, let me be! ” cried montag passionately.
beatty opened his eyes wide.
mildred’s hand had frozen behind the pillow. her fingers were tracing the book’s outline and as the shape became familiar her face looked surprised and then stunned. her mouth opened to ask a question .
this passage moves the plot of the story forward because _[blank]_.
beatty reveals the details of how their society operates
mildred discovers the book montag has hidden under the pillow
montag loses track of what beatty is trying to say to him
beatty discovers the real reason montag did not come to work

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