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In "Fahrenheit 451", Montag believes the mechanical hound has been reprogrammed by Captain Beatty to pick up his chemical smell and attack him. These hounds were programmed to find and take out their target by injecting them with Morphine.
In the first section of the book(The Hearth and the Salamander), Montag notices the mechanical house acting very hostile toward him. Montag fears the mechanical beast. As the story progresses, the hound grows more and more hostile toward him. This is strange because it is almost like Beatty(Montag's Fire Chief) programmed the hound to react that way toward Montag, as if he knew he was hoarding the books illegally.
Montag is reading poetry just before the mechanical hound arrives. The hound's arrival should indicate to Montag that he is in trouble and that the authorities are aware of his subversive activities. His reaction is one of fear and paranoia as he realizes the seriousness of the situation he is in.
The hound doesn't like Montag and this is because the hound is programmed to be able to sniff out chemical compistions of books
montag gets chased by the mechanical dog when he tries to escape from burning his own home in the last chapter of Fahrenheit 451. also the mechanical dog is able to track until he drinks some liquid in a forest that a guy gives him
After the Mechanical Hound stabs Montag in the leg with a needle containing anesthetic he destroys the Hound with the flamethrower he used to burn down his house.
Montag mistakes a deer for the Hound in Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." The deer startles Montag with its sudden appearance, causing him to compare its eyes and movement to those of the mechanical Hound.
during the manhunt for Montag by the hound, the camera identifies an innocent man as Montag because the hound had lost Montag. (Montag's disguise worked) In order to please the people watching the manhunt on television they killed a man but didn't get close enough to him with the camera for anybody to realize that it wasn't Montag.
After leaving the hound, Montag's leg starts to get numb.
Because he was trapped and the mechanical hound was in the area
Montag initially thinks he sees a person on the railroad tracks, but it turns out to be a mechanical hound.
Early in the novel, the Mechanical Hound growls at Montag, hinting at a future conflict between them. Beatty warns Montag that the Hound is never wrong and is capable of sensing any deviation from the norm, setting up a battle of wills between Montag and the Hound. When Montag becomes increasingly disillusioned with society and its reliance on technology, it sets the stage for a showdown with the Hound, which represents that same oppressive technology.