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This is how Mildred tries to take her own life as the novel opens.
What is an overdose of sleeping pills?
In the novel, fire symbolically represents both destruction and this contrasting concept by the end of the story.
What is warmth, renewal, or rebirth?
This is the primary method the government uses to keep citizens from thinking critically and questioning authority.
What is censorship or banning books?
This former English professor mentors Montag and encourages his rebellion.
Professor Faber
The prisoners in Plato’s cave forced to look at _______ for their entire lives
What are shadows?
This is the metaphor for the animal that Montag used when he described the stomach pump and blood-replacement machine that the EMS used on Mildred.
What is a snake?
This eight-legged creature with a procaine needle represents the government's use of technology to hunt and control citizens.
What is the Mechanical Hound?
Mildred's obsession with her three television 'walls' and her 'family' represents the novel's critique of this modern phenomenon.
What is technology addiction?
This is what the earbuds in the novel are called.
What are seashells?
This event happens happens at the old woman's house, and deeply affects Montag...
What is the old lady choosing to die with her books rather than leave them.
This is the number of walls that are TV walls in Montag's home. She refers to them as her ____________________________.
What is 3? What is her family?
Montag undergoes this type of character transformation when he evolves from a book burner who takes 'special pleasure' in his work to a fugitive who memorizes literature.
What is a dynamic AND round character?
Montag's society has not physically forced everyone to stop thinking. What has society provided that makes many people not want to think?
What is constant entertainment, technology, speed, distraction, and shallow pleasure?
The symbol and meaning is on Montag's fire helmet.
What is in the novel, the firemen adopt the salamander as their emblem (and call their fire trucks "salamanders") to represent their ability to surround themselves with fire every day while remaining untouched and immune to its destructive power?
“Metaphorically, Mildred is imprisoned by the parlor walls.” Explain what this means WITHOUT using the words metaphor or figuratively.
What is the television isn't literally holding Mildred prisoner; her obsession with it controls or consumes her life.
This is how Montag and Granger keep knowledge of books.
What is "to memorize books"?
Why is Mildred is important to Montag's character development and self-awareness?
What is she helps him recognize emptiness in his own life?
This is the symbolic bird that Granger teaches his men about.
What is "The Phoenix?"
The leader of the social outcasts and professors Montag meets along the tracks.
Who is Granger?
Plato's Allegory of the Cave: After seeing the outside world, the freed prisoner returns to the cave. How do the other prisoners react when he tries to tell them the truth?
What is they reject or ridicule him and do not want to believe him. They may even become hostile toward him because his ideas threaten what they believe.
What does the following mean and what does it refer to?
People CHOOSE to stay in the cave.
ANSWER:
It means people sometimes choose ignorance or comfort over truth because questioning what they have always believed can be difficult, uncomfortable, or frightening.
What it refers to:
In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, the prisoners resist leaving the only reality they have ever known. In Fahrenheit 451, many people choose entertainment, technology, and distraction instead of thinking deeply or questioning their society.
Accept: “People would rather believe what is comfortable than face an uncomfortable truth.” Plato's Allegory of the Cave
Why is Montag is best classified as an anti-hero rather than a traditional hero?
What is he begins as part of the system and makes questionable choices as he changes?
How Montag and Beatty function as foils regarding their views on society's beliefs and structure.
What is Montag questions society while Beatty defends it?
This character knows literature surprisingly well but still enforces the law of the land.
Who is Beatty?
Explain this statement using Fahrenheit 451:
“Being entertained is not the same thing as being happy.”
What are characters such as Mildred have constant entertainment but lack genuine relationships, emotional connection, and meaningful thought; Montag gradually recognizes that difference.
What are the first words of the novel?
What is "It was a pleasure to burn"?
Clarisse and Beatty both influence Montag, but in opposite ways. Explain the difference.
What is Clarisse encourages curiosity and questioning, while Beatty defends conformity and the existing system.
What does Montag plan to share with the others at noon on the last page of the novel?
What is a passage from Revelations the Bible about the Healing of a Nation?
Granger compares humanity to this mythological bird because humans repeatedly destroy themselves and rise from the ashes.
What is the Phoenix?
Although Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 in 1953, several technologies in the novel resemble technology we use today. Name TWO examples and explain the modern technology they resemble.