OBJECTS
These mini-radios are often found in people's ears.
What are Seashells?
The fire captain who knows a lot, but has given into societal norms.
Who is Captain Beatty?
"Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag. Take your fight outside. Better yet, into the incinerator."
What is censorship? OR What is book burning?
"Nobody listens any more. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me. I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say."
Who is Montag? OR Who is Guy Montag?
A small green metal object that listens.
What is Faber's listening device? OR What is Faber's invention? OR What is the green bullet?
Mildred wants a fourth one of these.
What is a parlor wall?
Considers himself a coward; stopped teaching when people chose to stop learning.
Who is Faber? OR Who is Professor Faber?
"The fact is we didn't get along well until photography came into its own. Then--motion pictures in the early twentieth century. Radio. Television. Things began to have mass."
What is technology replacing books? OR What is entertainment replacing reading?
"They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming pools mostly and say how swell! But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else."
Who is Clarisse? OR Who is Clarisse McClellan?
What Montag often takes to work or get around town.
What is the subway?
These are affectionally considered family by Mildred.
What are the parlor wall characters? OR What are the TV characters?
"Funny, how funny, not to remember where or when you met your husband or wife."
Who is Mildred?
"They just run the answers at you,...and us sitting there for four more hours of film-teacher...It's a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom and them telling us it's wine when it's not."
What is Clarisse's school? OR What is the education system?
"The books are to remind us what...fools we are...The things you're looking for,...are in the world, but the only way the average chap will see ninety-nine percent of them is in a book."
Who is Faber? OR Who is Professor Faber?
What Mildred likes to drive fast in the countryside.
What is the beetle?
The shape of the fire engine that the firefighters drive.
What is the Salamander?
They are described as "monstrous crystal chandelier tinkling in a thousand chimes," with their "Cheshire cat smiles burning through the walls of the house..."
Who are Mildred and her friends? OR Who are Mildred, Mrs. Phelps, and Mrs. Bowles?
"I plunk the children in school nine days out of ten. I put up with them when they come home three days a month; it's not bad at all. You heave them into the 'parlor' and turn the switch. It's like washing clothes; stuff laundry in and slam the lid."
What is inattentive parenting? OR What is a lack of interest in children? OR What is letting school and the parlor walls do the babysitting?
"I don't want to change sides and just be told what to do. There's no reason to change if I do that."
Who is Montag? OR Who is Guy Montag?
Clarisse had Montag rub this under his chin to see if he was in love.
What is a dandelion?
"Under the doorsill, a slow, probing sniff, an exhalation of electric steam...Silence. The cold rain falling. And the smell of blue electricity blowing under the locked door."
What is the Mechanical Hound?
This is the author of the book.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
Established in 1790 by Benjamin Franklin, firefighters are to respond to the alarm and start the fire swiftly and burn everything before returning immediately to the firehouse.
What is changing history?
"The whole culture's shot through. The skeleton needs melting and reshaping...Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord."
Who is Faber? OR Who is Professor Faber?
This is no longer part of the house; in the past, people would locate here to talk into all hours of the night.
What is a porch? OR What is a front porch?