Plot
These 2 characters met while 1 was walking home from work
Who are: Clarisse and Montang
This is the number on Guy Montangs helmet
What is: 451
Montang had this many TV walls in his house
What is: 3
Who was the author of Fahrenheit 451?
Who is: Ray Bradbury
Clarisse saying this made Montang reflect on his life
What is:"Are you happy"
What happened to Clarisse?
She was hit by a car and thought to be dead
How did Mildred try to take her own life?
She took a whole bottle of sleeping pills
What loud, thunderous things does Montag continuously hear overhead throughout the book?
What Are: Jet Planes
This is the reason that Fahrenheit 451 was banned
What is: Explicit Language
Beatty says - "A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon.” - this shows that he sees books as this
The woman with the books did this when the firefighters came
What is: Light herself on fire
Who released the mechanical hound to hunt down Montang in case he tried to run?
Who is: Beatty
Beatty believes that books should be burned for this reason
What is: They force people to think for themselves, making them hard for the government to control
Fahrenheit 451 was published on this day
What is: October 19, 1953
Clarisse saying - "Bet I know something else you don’t. There’s dew on the grass in this morning.’ He suddenly couldn’t remember if he had known this or not" - made Montang feel what way
What is: Angry/irritable
Montang used this to wash off his scent and escape the city
What is: A river
Montnag made one of Mildreds' friends cry by reading this type of literature to them
What is: Poetry
What year does the book take place in?
What is: 2049
Bradbury only permitted Fahrenheit 451 to be an e-book at the age of 91 in this year. He stated that e-books "smell like burned fuel"
What is: 2011
Montnag says this to which chracter "That’s the good part of dying; when you’ve nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.”
Who is: Faber
Montang asked Faber about which books?
What are: The Bible, Plato, and Shakespeare
Montang was trying to memorize the Bible for what reason
Because he feared that someone would try and take it from him
According to the firemans handbook, this person was the first firefighter in 1709
Who is: Benjamin Franklin
The first Draft of Fahrenheit 451 was written in this many days
What is: 9
The moment Montnag realizes that there may be more to books is when he sees the woman allow herself to be burned with them. He is recorded saying this
What is: “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”