QUESTION 4-Fahrenheit 451

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

And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering mannikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him. There was a hiss like a great mouthful of spittle banging a red-hot stove, a bubbling and frothing as if salt had been poured over a monstrous black snail to cause a terrible liquefaction and a boiling over of yellow foam. Montag shut his eyes, shouted, shouted, and fought to get his hands at his ears to clamp and to cut away the sound. Beatty flopped over and over and over, and at last twisted in on himself like a charred wax doll and lay silent.
-from page 119, Fahrenheit 451

The climax of this novel starts when Mildred turned on the alarm and the firemen including Montag came to his own house to burn the books. At first, Montag didn’t know that his house’s alarm went on but he notices it when the salamander arrives to his house and when he sees Mildred going out from her house with bags. Beatty told Montag to burn his own house and after when Montag did it, he burns Beatty too. Montag himself was so shocked after he had thought what he had just done. When he heard the police coming, he pulls himself together and runs away from his house to nowhere. He later realizes that he was running towards Faber.
I was really surprised when Montag killed Beatty because I thought Montag would never do such a thing. I think Montag could have gotten away from Beatty without choosing a extreme way to kill him.