5 R's
Firemen arrive with kerosene and flamethrowers to destroy books and the homes that hide them, an example of this form of censorship.
What is removal?
This fireman is the novel’s protagonist
Who is Guy Montag?
Mildred wears these tiny radios in her ears, named for a sound-of-the-ocean item.
What are Seashells?
At this temperature, according to the title, book paper catches fire.
What is 451 degrees Fahrenheit?
This element symbolizes both destruction and, at the end, warmth and renewal.
What is fire?
Bradbury said the novel is less about this government action than about how media can make people stop reading.
What is censorship?
The group of exiles memorize books to preserve them, led by this man.
Who is Granger?
the suppression or removal of writing, artistic work, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.
censorship
Beatty says every group demanded that anything offensive be cut out, leaving “dishwater” and harmless text, which is a form of censorship.
What is redaction?
Montag’s wife, who overdoses on sleeping pills early in the book.
Who is Mildred?
These wall-sized screens star Mildred’s “family.”
What are parlor walls?
The woman who chooses to burn with her books reinforces this decision for Montag.
(Hero's Journey)
What is the turning point/inciting event of his doubts?
As a boy, Montag tried to fill this leaky tool with sand, a symbol of his failure to retain knowledge.
What is a sieve?
Montag’s forced smile and Mildred’s denial about her overdose are examples of the lack of this.
What is authenticity?
Granger compares the group’s mission to this mythical bird that rises from its own ashes.
What is the phoenix?
voluntary self-punishment inflicted as an outward expression of repentance for having done wrong
What is penance?
Faber’s hidden home and the old woman’s secret library both show books being pushed from public spaces to private ones, which is this form of censorship.
What is relocation?
This retired English professor helps Montag through a hidden earpiece.
Who is Faber?
This eight-legged robot tracks fugitives and injects them with a sedative.
What is the Mechanical Hound?
Montag eventually turns his flamethrower on this character.
Who is Captain Beatty?
Mildred’s seashell radios symbolize this, the isolation of people who are physically together but disconnected.
What is isolation/disconnection?
Seashell radios and parlor walls replace face-to-face conversation, which Bradbury suggests damages this essential human skill
What is interpersonal communication?
The book people live as these, traveling along old railroad tracks
What are hobos/vagabonds?
a modulation or inflection of the voice.
cadence
Calling books “dangerous” or “disturbing” changes how people see them, a form of censorship that works by changing the label.
What is relabeling?
The person haunts Montag's thoughts and changes the way he thinks.
Who is Clarisse McClellan?
The firemen’s trucks and the kerosene they use are both nicknamed after this fire-dwelling creature.
What is the Salamander?
Montag escapes the Hound and the city by fleeing down this kind of waterway.
What is a river?
The Mechanical Hound symbolizes this, the dehumanizing power of technology in the hands of the state.
What is technology used for control/conformity?
Beatty has this skill but uses it to defend censorship, showing it must come with values to matter.
What is literacy?
Granger’s key idea: books themselves don’t matter, but these three things do.
What are quality information, leisure to digest it, and the right to act on it?
An action done as a routine duty or habit without real care
perfunctorily
Clarisse is questioned about her walks and her interest in nature, showing this form of censorship applied to behavior and thinking.
What is restriction?
Knows more about literature than Montag and will quote it to make a strong point about how useless it is.
Who is Captain Beatty?
Faber’s invention that lets him speak privately to Montag.
What is the two-way radio/ear device?
The city meets this fate at the end while the war breaks out.
What is destroyed by bombs?
Granger says humans are better than the phoenix because they can remember this.
What are their mistakes?
Comparing how Clarisse spends her afternoons with how Mildred spends hers, using details from the text, is the kind of question this framework helps teachers design.
What is DOK?
Montag is chosen to memorize this Old Testament book.
What is Ecclesiastes?
a utensil consisting of a wire or plastic mesh held in a frame, used for straining solids from liquids, for separating coarser from finer particles, or for reducing soft solids to a pulp.
What is sieve?