Biography
The author of F451
Ray Bradbury
How does Montaq feel about his career at the beginning of the book?
Proud
Even though Montaq reads the books multiple times, his inability to comprehend them causes him to
Seek out Faber for help
Why was Montaq's death publicized?
People love good television
“I remember. Montag clung to the earth. I remember. Chicago. Chicago a long time ago. Millie and I. That’s where we met! I remember now!”
The title of the book is based off of
The temperature at which paper burns
What time of year does the novel begin?
Fall
Montaq hears an advertisement and is reminded of
Trying to fill a sieve with sand
What realization does Montaq have of fire after escaping?
That fire can be used for good
“He lay far across the room from her- on a winter island separated by an empty sea.”
Metaphor
The genre of the novel
dystopian
Mildrid is introduced to the reader after she first,
Overdoses on sleeping medication.
What does Montaq do to convince Faber to help him
What does book does Montaq take "ownership" over
Ecclesiastes or Revelation
“I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver’s Travels”
Allusion
Censorship is
prohibition of any books, films, etc that are considered obscene
Montaq is unable to remember
How he met his wife
To prevent Beatty from talking Montaq out of his purpose
Faber gives Montaq the "green bullet"
When Granger says "We're going to put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them" he means
We should all reflect on the past and apply it towards the future
“Two dozen of them [helicopters] flurried, wavering, indecisive, three miles off, like butterflies puzzled by Autumn…”
Simile
Although the novel happens in futuristic times, the novel is based off of what time frame of society?
1950s
Mildrid cleans up around the house while Beatty is there because
Which poem does Montaq read to the Women?
Dover Beach
Who does Montaq meet after becoming a refugee
Granger, Dr. Simmons, Reverend Padover, Fred Clement
“There was a silly bird called a Phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up/ every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again”
symbolism