The New Society
Everyone has TVs in their homes along with walls to hold them.
What did everyone have in their homes?
Clarisse likes to hang around nature.
What is her favorite passtime?
They are now responsible for the burning of books and libraries.
What is the new responsibility for the Fire Dept.?
Montag is a fireman who burns libraries and books.
What is Montag’s job?
She is the wife of Guy Montag.
Who is Mildred Montag?
They mainly teach 4 things, Sports, TV, Transcription History, and painting pictures to suppress intelligence.
What do schools mainly teach?
She is weird to others because of her disinterest in television and love for nature.
Why is Clarisse considered a weirdo?
The Hound growled at Montag likely because of someone interfering with the Hound’s profile of Montag, which made it growl at him.
Why did the Hound likely growl at Montag?
He started to think these doubts after talking with Clarisse, which began to take shape of his thoughts in the later part of this segment of the story.
What started his doubts of the Fire Dept.?
Mildred had overdosed on sleeping pills she took regularly.
Why was Mildred rushed to the ER?
They only talk about what is shown to them, and have no originality.
What do the students at school talk about?
Clarisse was involved in a car crash, which from what we know killed her or stopped her from being in the area for a long time.
Why did Clarisse supposedly disappear?
They played chase with the Hound, making chickens and rats run from it until caught.
What do the firemen do in their free time?
After talking with Clarisse, and having a dandelion placed on his chin, he realized that he did not live anyone.
What realization did Montag have after talking with Clarisse?
She did not remember doing those things. The memories of her actions were wiped, and she was just hungry after awakening.
What happened after Mildred woke up after the overdose?
They care so little about their patients due to them being routine in their minds.
Why do the medics care so little about their patients?
She is antisocial because of her traits that differ from the student’s minds that mostly never speak anything original.
How is Clarisse considered antisocial in the eyes of the school’s kids?
They burned books to limit the intelligence of society, which made it easier to control and manipulate their thoughts. To ensure no one escapes this, they burned books books.
Why does the Fire Dept. need to burn books in the first place?
He brought a book home because of him seeing the reaction of the woman choosing death over a life without books, which made him think there must be some value to them.
Why did Montag sneak a book home?
She had completely forgotten about the first time meeting her husband, and she did not really care about it either.
What did Mildred show to Montag about herself that made him outraged?
They were so important to her because of the knowledge gained from them that is super valuable to her.
Why were the books so important to the woman?
Clarisse was one of the main reasons Montag had begun to doubt his job, and she also made him realize he didn’t like doing his job and that he never loved Mildred. Those thoughts were new.
What did Clarisse do to make Montag realize new things?
He knows the quote by memory because he likely knows more than he lets on about literature.
How would Captain Beatty know the woman’s quote by memory?
Montag is this because he originally sides with the villain side in the beginning of the story, and starts to slowly rebel from that ideology. He is imperfect.
Why is Montag an antihero?
She is the new lows of the society that she lives in, with her intelligence being beyond subpar, and her type of suicide attempt being common in society.
What does Mildred represent about this new society?