Fahrenheit 451 - The Hobos

The Hobos are a group of guys that travel the railroad lines outside of cities. These are the people Guy so deperately wants to get to. Guy had this idea that they will make everything clear to him as soon as he sees them. After Guy is washed down the river he does meet up with the hobos but they are nothing like he expects. Rather than a band of rag tag men in crappy clothing. Guy finds a group of men who are well dressed for living on a railroad, as well as men who are clean, but the most surprising part is the fact that they are so intelligent. Each man could be a professor or had been a professor somewhere. Guy begins asking them how they keep all the books and where they keep them. Then it gets really cool, rather than lugging around books that could get them in trouble they all memorize either the whole book or just certain, when someone is coming close to dying they pass along the book so that it wall never fully be lost to humanity. I think it would be pretty damn hard to remember a whole book or even a chapter or two. I have a hard time remembering homework I can barely imagine trying to memorize something so large and varying. You would also have to memorize it word for word so that your positive you don to change the story in any way. Guy decides he is going to become a hobo, he decides on what book he has that he will memorize. I am pretty sure it was the poem one but I am not positive. I do not know how realistic the hobos were. I mean there just are not that many people out there who would be willing to give up their life in order to memorize a book no one ever really enjoys reading. I am sure that there would be a few but I do not think there would be as many people as the hobo told Guy there was.