Mildred spends the majority of her time interacting with these
Parlor Walls
Clarisse asks Montag this question after their first meeting
"Are you happy?"
A name that symbolizes an "everyman," an ordinary person
Guy
Just below the level of awareness
Subconscious
Montag fears that this creature has it out for him
The Mechanical Hound
Montag steals this from the old woman's attic
A book
Montag compares Clarisse's face to these two things
A clock (the dial) and a mirror
The ancient Greeks believed this animal to be unaffected by fire (Hint: firemen)
Salamander
A tumble backward, especially for comic effect
Pratfall
Fireman are allowed to hold onto stolen books for this long before they must be burned
24 hours
Revealed at the end of Part 1, Montag has this many books hidden behind the air conditioning grill in his home.
About 20
Mildred reveals this to Montag the night the woman burned in her house
Clarisse is dead
Hearth
Far beyond the norm
Radical
There have been 2, 532 of these in the United States between 2021 and 2022
Book Bannings
After Mildred overdoses on sleeping tablets, these people don't care because they get 9 or 10 of the same cases every night.
Paramedics
Montag is fascinated with Clarisse and her family because they do this with each other.
Talk
The McClellan family crest has these two words on it
Think on
Pretending with intention to deceive
Feigning
Beatty refers to a book as this
"A loaded gun" (in the house next door)
Montag asks Mildred this question, proving their disconnection
When did we meet? And where?
Clarisse's uncle was arrested for these two things
Driving slowly on the highway and being a pedestrian
The old woman burned with her books as an act of this
Protest/Resistance
One of several parallel layers of material
Stratum
Self-immolation