Characters
This young lady is "17 and insane."
Who is Clarisse McClellan?
This is what happens to Clarisse.
What is she's hit by a speeding car?
These are a staple in every civilians household, taking up the entire walls with "family" and keeping people's attention.
What are Parlor walls?
Montag reads this poem to his wife and her friends.
What is Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach"?
This is Transcendentalism.
What is an American literary movement?
This character says these words: "We never burned right."
This is our protagonist; he's a fireman in a dystopian society.
Who is Guy Montag?
This is the question posed to Montag that makes him question everything.
What is "Are you happy?"
This is the type of animal equipped with a sniffing needle and is set out to find anyone hiding contraband (books).
What is the hound?
What is the dangers of censorship and restricting art and information?
These are the two creators of Transcendentalism.
Who are Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson?
The words "It was a pleasure to burn" appear here in the novel.
What are the opening lines?
Who is Mildren Montag?
This is how Guy Montag knows he's been caught.
What is they roll up to his house after receiving a fire call?
This contraption can be found in most citizens ears; they use them to listen to music and shows.
What are Seashells in their ears?
Clarisse's character, and her unique way of doing things, best supports this theme.
What is a rejection of conformity, embracing individuality.
This tenet appears in Part III of the novel.
What is the Rejection of Material objects? What is the importance of nature? What is society is corrupt?
This character speaks the following lines: “We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law. Byron, Tom Paine, Machiavelli, or Christ, it’s here.”
Who is Granger?
This retired English Professor helps Montag escape to the woods.
Who is Faber?
Montag sees a fire in the woods, but it differs from the fire he's used to in these two ways.
The fire in the woods offers warmth and smells like wood instead of offering destruction and smelling like kerosene.
This is the symbolism of the book title and number reflected on the firemen's helmets.
What is 451 being the temperature that paper burns at?
Faber felt a society without books lacked these three elements.
What is quality, texture, and the right to carry out action based on the other two items.
"Montag was alone in the wilderness" (Bradbury 144). The quote best supports this Transcendentalist tenet.
What is the importance of solitude? What is the importance of nature?
These words do not actually appear within the narrative; they're called this: "If they give you ruled paper, write the other way."
What is the epigraph?
This woman cries after having a poem read to her by Guy Montag.
Who is Mrs. Phelps?
Guy Montag's new job is to remember this piece of literature.
What is the Book of Ecclesiastes?
Plato's Allegory of the Cave uses light and dark to represent these two motifs in the novel.
What are light and dark?
The choice to include Montage's role in remembering The Book of Ecclesiastes best supports this theme.
What is rejection of capitalism and materialism in American society?
The final reflections of Montag leave the book on a message of this: "To everything there is a season ... A time to break down, and a time to rebuild ... A time to keep silence, and a time to speak ... And on either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; And the leaves if the tree were for the healing of the nations" (Bradbury 165).
What is a message of rebirth and/or hope?
""And on either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." These are some of the final words in the novel, but they're also from this.
What is the Book of Revelations?