What else is happening while montag is trying to run away?
a)
a war has started.
b)
the town is preparing for a hurricane that is about to make landfall.
c)
the news crews are tracking a convicted who has escaped from the high security prison.
d)
there are fireworks to celebrate the signing of a peace treaty.

d) There are fireworks to celebrate the signing of a peace treaty.

Explanation:

While Montag is running for his life, he hears that war is declared. He is nearly murdered by adolescents in a speeding vehicle yet figures out how to escape and even conceal a book in another firefighter's home and bring in a caution so as to occupy his followers.

Finally, he achieves Faber's loft. Faber guides him to escape toward the open nation, where instructors and scholars are living as tramps. Subsequent to putting on something else to occupy the new Mechanical Hound acquired by the police, Montag makes a last dash for the river.

the words “strangest” and “unusual” suggest that the narrator is about to tell the story of an odd or puzzling group of people.

explanation:

the intellectual community is a place like a university where people with high marks, or original thought or an outstanding interest in something gather. they take classes together. they discuss things. they argue sometimes, and not always in a friendly way. but if they argue, it is because they are passionate about something, and there is nothing the matter with that.

lately i've been hearing rumors that it is not the way it was when i went to school. the one thing all schools used to have was free speech. the 1st amendment rights were sacred. now i'm hearing they are not. students can be reported and disciplined for giving an off the wall opinion.

that is shameful.

intellectual ideas are meant to be discussed. they are meant to be chewed up and worked on. that is the primary responsibility of every intellectual community. if that is not the way it is, then that is not a school to go to.

social media, in my opinion, and this is just an opinion. i wouldn't take it too seriously, complicates everything to do with human communication. you can want to share things and others feel they have the right to be very critical or sarcastic or mean about what you share. lack of respect is an immeasurable intolerable condition and social media abounds with that sort of thing.

one of the things i really like about is how careful people are because they must have some idea that the mods are exactly what the word says they are. they police this board very well, and what is so remarkable about them is that they are no older than the average grade 12 student.

my hat goes off to them (which means i respect them quite a bit).