Characters
This character is an educated cynic, struggling with the fact that learning only leads to confusion.
Who is Captain Beatty?
This theme is being discussed by Clarisse when she shares: "But I don't think it's social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do you? [. . .] an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history [. . .]"
What is education?
Mildred ultimately betrays Montag by taking this action.
What is calling in a fire alarm on Montag?
This major symbol is depicted in two ways, violent and destructive but also warm and healing.
What is fire?
Where Montag first saw Faber.
What is the park? or What is the park bench?
Who says, "It's really fun. It'll be even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth wall installed. How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall-TV put in? It's only two thousand dollars."
Who is Mildred?
This technological invention is made ominous by its ability to sniff out 'criminals' and shoot them full of a paralyzing drug.
What is the Mechanical Hound?
This character has an empty existence, living superficially and running from anything that might disturb his or her simplistic existence.
Who is Mildred?
The symbolism of Montag bathing in the river and donning Faber's clothes points to this theme.
What is transformation?
Beatty says this is, ultimately, the reason books had to be burned.
What is civil unrest (civil war)?
Bradbury masterfully uses this literary device when: Part one ends with Beatty's explanation of society's current existence and Beatty's visit to Montag's home, while part two picks up with Montag pretty quickly visiting Faber and hearing his perspective about society's condition.
What is contrast or juxtaposition?
Fahrenheit 451 is a novel that depicts this type of future.
What is a dystopian future?
Who says, "We're book burners, too. We read the books and burnt them, afraid they'd be found. Microfilming didn't pay off; we were always traveling, we didn't want to bury the film and come back later. Always the chance of discovery. Better to keep it in the old heads."
Who is Granger?
This technological invention allows Faber and Montag to communicate.
What is the Green Bullet?
This character welcomes Montag into his or her community, initiating Montag with the story of his or her life and the story of the community's existence.
Who is Granger?
The example of Clarisse's life and Granger's story of his grandfather point to this theme.
What is being truly alive? What is being an individual?
Faber tells Montag that these three things must be pursued by mankind (civilization) to be healthy and whole again.
What are quality, leisure, and action?
By describing technology as dangerous animals and creepy insects, Bradbury is using this literary device.
What is a simile or metaphor?
This is the year Fahrenheit 451 was first published.
What is 1951?
Who says, "Got to clean'em out both ways [. . .] No use getting the stomach if you don't clean the blood."
Who is the operator?
This technological invention keeps Mildred distracted from real life.
What are the parlor walls?
This character is responsible for bothering Montag enough to question his happiness.
Who is Clarisse?
The drivers of the beetles attempting to hit pedestrians and Clarisse sharing that "six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone" are examples of this theme.
What is the inhumanity of the society? What is the violence of the society?
This memory reflects Montag's frustration with opening himself up to books and knowledge.
What is the dime, sieve, and sand memory?
Bradbury is employing this literary device in the following passage: "He [Montag] saw many hands held to its warmth, hands without arms, hidden in darkness. Above the hands, motionless faces that were only moved and tossed and flickered with firelight. He hadn't known fire could look this way. He had never thought in his life that it could give as well as take. Even its smell was different."
What is imagery? or What are sensory details?
This item burns at the temperature of four hundred fifty one fahrenheit.
What is a book?
Montag refers to this character when he says, "You think too many things."
Who is Clarisse?
Mlldred wears these in her ears.
This character undergoes a profound transformation from an empty but dutiful existence to being free, truly in tune with being alive.
Who is Montag?
The woman choosing to stay with her books and be burned alive is an example of this theme?
What is suicide? What is death? What is martyrdom (choosing to die for one's beliefs)?
After killing Beatty, Montag makes sense of what happened by suggesting this about the captain?
What is Beatty wanted to die?
Some may point to Beatty's death as this moment in the plot of the story.
What is the climax?
He or she is the author of Fahrenheit 451.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
This character, while holding a book, observes, "It's as good as I remember. Lord, how they've changed it in our 'parlors' these days. Christ is one of the 'family' now. I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dress him up, or is it dressed him down?"
Who is Faber?
This technological invention saves Mildred's 'life.'
What is the black cobra? or What is the Eye?
This character laments the fact that he or she did not take action when he or she noticed that society was going awry.
Who is Faber?
When Montag says to Mildred, "We need not to be let alone, this is the theme behind those words.
What is being
This event is televised to the entire city.
What is Montag's attempt to escape?
This literary device is being used by Bradbury when he compares Montag's home to a "tomb-world" and a "mausoleum."
What is a *paradox?
*a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities
The name of the product whose jingle is played over and over while Montag travels by train to Faber's house.
What is "Denham's Dentifrice"?
The character being referenced in the following passage: "The smell of the river was cool and like a solid rain. [His or her] throat was burnt rust and his eyes were wept dry with running. [She or he] yelled as if this yell would jet him on, fling him the last hundred yards."
Who is Montag?
This character admits that he or she has to "put up with" his or her children but says that he or she only sees them three days a month.
Who is Mrs. Phelps?
This is the destination of the commune at the very end of the story.
What is the city?
Bradbury is using a simple writing technique with every instance of the jets flying overhead.
What is repetition?
Montag incurs an injury to this part of his body while on the run, attempting to cross the interstate.
What is his knee?
This character says, "We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while."
Who is Montag?
The family whose home Montag plants books in and them calls in a fire alarm on them.
Who are Mr. and Mrs. Black?
The title of part three of Fahrenheit 451.
What is "Burning Bright"?
The title of the poem that Montag reads that this excerpt is from:
Was once, too, at the full, and round the earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
It's melancholy, long, withdrawing roar . . .
What is "The Sea of Faith"?