Characters
A conflicted fireman who carries the "perfume" of Kerosene and longs to know more about the books he burns.
Who is Guy Montag?
“So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it."
Who is (Captain) Beatty?
"Sitting there like a wax doll melting in its own heat."
What is a simile?
Montag's feelings about the mechanical hound
Fearful, uneasy, scared
The illegal thing Montag does at the burning of the old woman's home.
What is he steals a book?
A shallow and cold woman who loves her TV parlor and scripts.
Who is Mildred Montag?
“You weren’t there, you didn’t see! There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house.”
Who is Montag?
"Each becomes a black butterfly."
What is a metaphor?
The amount of books Montag was hiding in the ventilator at his home.
What is 20 books?
The jingle Montag hears while trying to comprehend what he is reading on the train.
What is Denham's Dentrifice?
The inquisitive, curious girl who is hit by a car and dies.
Who is Clarisse Mcclellan?
“If we had a fourth wall, why it’d be just like this room wasn’t ours at all, but all kinds of exotic people’s rooms!”
Who is Mildred?
"It was sleeping but not sleeping."
The three things Faber says a world without books is missing.
What is Quality Information, Leisure (time to digest the books), and Freedom (of thought)
The name of the poem Montag reads to Millie and her friends.
What is Dover Beach?
The cruel fire captain who knows more about literature than we think.
Who is Captain Beatty?
“I don’t talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I’m alive."
Who is Faber?
"Delicately, like the petals of a flower."
What is a simile?
2 examples of the futuristic technology Bradbury predicts in the novel:
What is:
ATMs
Airpods/Earbuds
Large flatscreen TVs
Spy (or "bugged") earpieces
A former professor who Montag turns to for guidance on comprehending literature.
Who is Faber?
"You can stop counting."
Who is the Old Woman (Mrs. Blake)?
"With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world."
What is a metaphor?
The question Clarisse asks Montag that upsets him.
Faber says this is how the television prevents people from thinking.
What is it tells you what to think, quickly and immediately?