Fahrenheit 451 Book
The character who initiated Montag’s change of heart
Who is Clarisse?
The character who Montag kills using a flame thrower
Who is Captain Beatty? Note that Montag kills Beatty in this film and the book, but not in the 2018 film.
Her name is Mildred in the book, Linda in Truffaut’s film, and she does not even exist in the 2018 film of Fahrenheit 451
Who is Montag’s wife?
The kind of question that should be asked in an analyzing opposing arguments paper
What is a “should question”?
How you emphasize names of long works (full-length performances, books etc.) in MLA
What is italicize? Names of shorter works (chapters, songs etc.) are put in quotation marks.
What one of Mildred’s friends does when Montag reads
What is cry? All of the entertainment is covering up feelings and war.
The characters who were played by the same actress
Who are Montag’s wife and Clarisse?
The internet-like thing that televises Montag and his fellow firemen to the public
What is the Nine?
The genre of writing focused on telling you something new about a particular person, place or occupation. Hint: It would likely appear in a newspaper or magazine.
What is a profile?
What needs to be cited in-text and at the end of your paper
What is everything (that did not come from your own head)? This includes interviews and performances. In MLA, in-text citations are in author page number format.
The name for the animal-like killing machine that pierces Montag with a drug-filled needle/tooth
What is the Hound? Note that the Hound does not exist in either of the films!
Clarisse’s job in this version of Fahrenheit 451
What is being a schoolteacher? She was a high school student in the book and a bartender/spy in the 2018 film.
The name of the technology that the book people are developing to allow people to contain books in their DNA. Hint: It is not in the book or in Truffaut’s film.
What is Omnis?
Research method involving interviews and lived experience
What is field research or ethnography? Your particular relationship to the subject you are researching is called your positionality. Research primarily involving books is archival.
Sentences that have more than one independent clause without proper punctuation
What are run-on sentences and/or a coma splices?
The name that Mildred gives to the people who appear on her wall TV
What is her “family”? The devices that she wore in her ears are called seashells.
Famous French director of the film
Who is Francois Truffaut?
The character who gets killed at the end of the 2018 film
Who is Montag? Note he is only reported to have died but survives in the other film and the book.
This part of a paper lays out the author’s claim and how they intend to argue that claim throughout the paper
What is a thesis (and forecasting statement)? Remember that in many academic genres of writing, this is where YOU fit in.
Any quotation you put in a paper should be followed by this
What is an analysis or explanation (of what it means and why it is relevant to the paper, thesis, topic and/or world)?