Dystopian Characteristics
"My uncle was arrested another time - did I tell you - for being a pedestrian. Oh, we're most peculiar."
What is restricted freedoms?
Protagonist, fireman who has an internal conflict about whether books are good or bad.
Who is Montag?
Books being burned is an example of...
What is the danger of censorship?
What is a fireman?
Person that Montag burned after he burned his own house?
Who is Beatty?
"'What, the Hound?' The Captain studied his cards. 'Come off it. It doesn't like or dislike. It just functions.'"
Who is Faber?
Mildred thinking the TV 'family' loves her is an example of....
What is technology worsens society?
What is printing books and planting them into fireman's homes?
Symbol that is used for the firemen (it was on Beatty's fireman hat)
What is a phoenix?
"We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.” - Beatty
Illusion to a perfect society
Perfect example of society's expectations; wife of main character
Who is Mildred?
History books being changed is an example of....
What is danger of censorship?
Temperature at which books burn?
What is Fahrenheit 451?
Montag is a _____ character? (static vs. dynamic)
What is a dynamic character?
"Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"
He laughed. "That's against the law!"
"Oh. Of course."
What is information, independent thought, and freedoms being restricted?
Fireman who is manipulative and believes that book are contradicting.
Who is Beatty?
Foil characters that could be considered ignorance vs. knowldge is...
Who are Clarrise and Mildred? (possible answer)
Who are Faber and Beatty? (possible answer)
Person who called the alarm on Montag's home.
Who is Mildred?
Montag read this poem to Mildred and her friends, which showed them their ignorance.
What is "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold?
"He imagined thousands on thousands of faces peering into yards, into alleys, and into the sky, faces hid by curtains, pale, night-frightened faces, like gray animals peering from electric caves, faces with gray colorless eyes, gray tongues, and gray thoughts looking out through the numb flesh of the face."
What is lack of individuality?
Young female who is "different" from society's expectations
Who is Clarisse?
"An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures, and more sports, but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don’t; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film-teacher."
Way that Granger and the men on the railroad tracks keep books alive.
What is "memorizing them to pass down orally"?
Metaphor that was used to describe that Montag was struggling to comprehend what he read.
What is "the sieve and the sand"?