Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury is a novel in which a "baptism" scene occurs. Guy Montag is the main character and the novel centers around him escaping his society where the government controls everything and where reading books is a sin, so people burn the books instead; like a daily community activity. The scene in which Guy Montag is running away from the society he lives and is being chased by a mechanical hound is the start of the baptism scene. The "baptism" part actually occurs when Guy Montag enters the river and takes off his clothes and wears Faber's clothes so that he could lose his scent, in order to ensure the hound could no longer trace him down. When Guy Montag comes out of the river, he is a new person, in a new society
