Symbols and Motifs
This is what the phoenix symbolizes.
What is "being born again from destruction"?
This is Montag's profession and what he does in that profession.
What is a fireman who burns books, not houses?
This is where Montag goes at the beginning Part II.
What is Faber's house?
This is what happens to Beatty.
What is "Montag kills him with a flamethrower"?
This is the inciting incident of the novel.
What is "Clarisse asks Montag if he is happy"?
This is what the sieve and the sand symbolize.
What is "Montag's struggle to hold on to knowledge and the overall difficulty of truly reading a book"?
This is a description of Clarisse.
Where is his own house?
This is the name of the former author Montag meets in on the railroad tracks.
Who is Granger?
This is the overall conflict of the novel.
What is "Montag slowly realizes that society is purposefully oppressing everyone to keep them from questioning things"?
This is what books symbolizes.
What is "knowledge and the freedom to think for oneself"?
This is the figurative language device used when the author mentions Shakespeare.
What is an allusion?
This is how Montag convinces Faber to help.
What is tearing pages out of Faber's only copy of the Bible?
What is "a car of highschoolers chase Montag up and down the road, trying to run him over for fun"?
This is the climax of the story.
What is "Montag kills Beatty with a flamethrower"?
This is what Mildred's "Family" symbolizes.
What is "society's distance from one another as people and need to constant stimulation"?
What is driving too fast?
This is why Mildred's friend begins to cry.
What is "Montag read a poem out loud and she had never experienced feeling emotion due to words, so she was confused and overwhelmed by both the words and doing something illegal"?
This is why an innocent man was killed.
What is "the government had to kill 'Montag' because they couldn't let society think someone could escape the hound, and because they couldn't actually get Montag, they killed an innocent man"?
This is the resolution of the novel.
What is "the Mechanical Hound stops searching for Montag and Montag gets out of the river"?
This is what the Hearth symbolizes and how it connects to the story.
What is "warmth, home, and the beginning of something," and Montag begins to question society and find his own personality by the end of Part I, which is titled "The Hearth and the Salamander"?
This is the famous line the old lady quotes when the firemen enter her home.
What is "Play on, Master Ridley"?
This one of the reasons Faber says books are important and therefore banned.
What is "quality, leisure, or acting on what was learned from quality and leisure"?
This is what Montag has memorized at the end of the novel.
What is "the Book of Ecclesiastes"?
This is why the woman burning herself alive is not the inciting incident.
What is "the conflict is all about Montag realizing his society is keeping people unhappy and dumb on purpose, so the inciting incident must be when Montag first begins to question society, which is BEFORE the old lady burns herself alive"?