(MIP-1) How people come to move so fast, and it damages what they value. (SIP-A) People move so quickly because that is what they were taught when they were babies, and the rules enforced into their brains. (STEWE-1) …show more content…
(SIP-A) When Mildred overdoses, she almost dies, but when Montag talks to her about it, she brushes if off and doesn’t think about it, she just moves forward. (STEWE-1) When Montag comes home from his work, he finds his wife on the ground next to a empty pill bottle. Mildred is dying, because she was moving too fast to realize what she had done. This happens so frequently, because the men who save her are not medics, instead they are plumbers. When Montag mentions this to them, the plumber simple says “‘Hell!’ The operator’s cigarette moved on his lip. ‘We got these cases nine or ten a night. Got so many, starting a few years ago, we had special machines built. With the optical lens, of course, that was new; the rest is ancient. You don’t need an .M.D., case like this; all you need is two handymen, clean up the problem in half an hour’” (Bradbury 13). This happens so frequently in the society that even plumbers are able to revive people like this, an overdose state. (STEWE-2) The next morning, Mildred wakes up, the seashells already in her ear, and moving from one thing to another. ‘Yes,’ he said. ‘I wanted to talk to you.’ He paused. ‘You took all the pills in your bottle last night.’ ‘Oh, I wouldn't do that,’ she said, surprised. ‘The bottle was empty.’ ‘I wouldn't do a thing like that. Why would I do a thing like that?’ she asked. ‘Maybe you took two pills and forgot and took two more, and forgot again and took two more, and were so dopy you kept right on until you had thirty or forty of them in you.’ ‘Heck,’ she said, ‘what would I want to go and do a silly thing like that for?’ ‘I don't know,’ he said. She was quite obviously waiting for him to go. ‘I didn't do that,’ she said. ‘Never in a billion years.’ ‘Alright if you say so,’ he said. ‘That's what the lady said.’ She turned back to her script. ‘What's on this afternoon?’ he asked tiredly. She didn't look up from her