Q 5. Fehrenheit 451

5＊What is the climax of this novel? What happens? How do the events of this novel make you feel?

The climax of the story happens when Guy Montag kills Captin Beaty at his own house. Beaty tells Montag that his wife, Mildren, has set the alarm, and Montag becomes upset. This reversal of the story was shocking to me. I knew that Mildren was less courageous than Montag about the book that he was keeping, but I never knew that Mildren would actually set the alarm up on his husband.
The more interesting fact is that Montag kills Beaty, but that Beaty was willing to die. Beaty tells Montag to go ahead and pull the trigger. Maybe Beaty had enough of the miserable life, burning all those books after all.
I thought it was double shocking point of the novel, because of Mildren, and Beaty. And I wonder if I were in their situation. Would I do like they have done too? I know there are enough details to get to know those characters, but then again, maybe it is hard to predict by the surfaces of the characters, as in my life, I cannot predict people by their surface. Maybe it was shocking because I was predicting Mildren, and Beaty by the surface. Therefore, I should have read the novel carefully, or should have not look at the surfaces of the characters.