Who Said It?
“My grandfather and father were firemen.”
Guy Montag
“Funny, how funny, not to remember where or when you met your husband or wife.”
Mildred says this when her and Guy are discussing the fact they do not remember where or when they met each other.
What happens when Guy uses the term "once upon a time"?
Beatty asks "what kinda talk is that?"
Guy knows he gave himself away to Beatty - he saw those words in a book.
Salamander
The mythology of the salamander says they can survive in extreme temperatures (even in fire).
Ray Bradbury's famous first sentence in this novel is..?
"It was a pleasure to burn."
“I rarely watch the parlor walls or go to races or Fun Parks. So I’ve lots of time for crazy thoughts, I guess.”
Clarisse McClellan
“wasn’t there a wall between him and Mildred, when you came down to it? Literally not just one wall but, so far, three! And expensive, too!”
How did the firemen know the woman had books?
"telephone alarm card"
Her neighbor turned her in through a community-surveillance system.
Hearth
fire, warmth, comfort, home, belonging, peace
"That's my family," is something Mildred says. She is referring to _____________?
the characters on her parlor walls (tv screens)
"I don' know anything anymore."
Guy Montag
“He felt his body divide in to a hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a not trembling, the two halves grinding one against the other.”
Guy has conflicting feelings.
_____________ was killed by a ___________.
Clarisse / car
"liquid melancholy"
This is a metaphor comparing the physical "junk" inside Mildred to the emotional "junk" she is suppressing by denying how she feels.
What is Guy referring to when he thinks, "[y]ou weren’t hurting anyone, you were only hurting things.”
When they arrived at the woman's house, she was supposed to have been arrested. Someone made an error and she was still there. Her presence made Guy and the others have to confront the fact that they did hurt people when they burned belongings and homes.
“None of these books agree with each other. You’ve been locked in here for years with a regular… Tower of Babel. The people in those books never lived.”
Captain Beatty said this to the woman as if these were good reasons not to read any books.
- People can't handle multiple opinions and sort it out for themselves.
- Fictional characters don't matter and/or history books aren't "true."
“We get these cases nine or ten a night. Got so many, starting a few years ago we had these special machines built.”
The men who came to rescue Mildred explained that a LOT of people attempt suicide in this dystopian society.
Guy Montag is worried that someone programmed the ________________ in way that could endanger him.
(must be exact words!)
mechanical hound
"vague stirrings of dis-ease in him"
"dis-ease" = pun
literal meaning = uneasy
also implying = disease, sickness, society is making people metaphorically "ill"
What is the big (little) question that Clarisse asks Guy? This begins to "shake him up."
"Are you happy?"
“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
Guy Montag
“a Mildred so deep inside this one, and so bothered, really bothered, that the two women had never met.”
this metaphor is explaining that Mildred is not being honest with herself about her feelings, as if she has another person inside of herself
supposed "First Fireman"
Benjamin Franklin
“The most significant memory he had of Mildred, really, was…(?)” The metaphor here is that Mildred is ___________________.
a girl alone in a forest without trees, or with the shadows of trees that used to be there
alone / lonely / lost / isolated
What is the meaning behind the woman saying: “Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.”
This quote is a famous line from a man named Latimer who was burned for his beliefs in 1555. The fact that the woman chose this quote is symbolic of her wish that more people will resist the dystopian rules and firemen, choosing to keep books and knowledge. The "candle" that will "never be put out" is both a reference to fire and a metaphor for ideas that are hard to "kill" once they have caught on.