PLOT
WHAT HAPENED TO MILDRED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY? MEDICAL CONDITION AND TREATMENT
She took 30 sleeping pills at once, got an overdose.
Her stomach and blood were cleaned
WHAT ARE PARLOUR WALLS?
television screens which cover the surface of an entire wall that are a form of entertainment inside their homes.
WHO IS MILDRED MONTAG?
Guy´s wife, 30, perfect citizen, obsessed with technology
WHAT IS THE SYMBOLISM OF THE Salamander MONTAG HAS ON HIS UNIFORM?
once believed to live in fire without being consumed by it.
ACCORDING TO FABER, WHAT CAN BE DONE TO DESTROY THE FIREMEN SYSTEM?
People should plant books in firemen houses all over the country and then burn them
WHAT WERE 2 THEORIES ABOUT CLARISSE'S DISAPPEARANCE?
Her family moved out
She is death, run over by a car
WHAT ARE SEASHELLS?
devices people use as a way to fall asleep. They bring music, news, and entertainment.
WHO ARE STONEMAN & BLACK?
firemen working with Montag, never question their job
WHAT IS THE SYMBOLISM OF THE Phoenix MONTAG HAS ON HIS UNIFORM?
a bird that is consumed by flames but then rises from the ashes
WHAT DO FIREMEN DO WHEN A FIREMAN TAKES A BOOK ACCIDENTALLY?
Firemen let him keep the book for 24 hours, and then he has to burn it. If he doesn't do it, firemen go and burn it for him
DESCRIBE THE EVENTS THAT HAPPENED IN THE OLD WOMAN´S HOUSE
Firemen went there because a neighbour reported her. The woman burnt herself with her books. Montag took a book secretly.
WHY DOES THIS SOCIETY DOES NOT ALLOW PEOPLE TO HAVE BOOKS?
books could allow one person to excel intellectually over others and so make everyone else feel inferior, therefore without books people won´t have new ideas, everyone conforms, and as a result, everyone should be happy.
WHY IS CLARISSE CONSIDERED ABNORMAL?
She likes to think, she is interested in nature as well as in people. She has a lot of questions and questions the society she lives in
WHAT DOES THE NUMBER 451 MEAN IN THE CONTEXT OF THE STORY?
temperature that paper, particularly book paper, catches fire
WHAT WAS FABER´S IDEA IN ORDER TO KEEP SOME BOOKS IN SECRET?
He asked Montag for money in order to make copies of some books with an unemployed printer he knew
WHEN BEATTY HAD A CONVERSATION WITH MONTAG, HE TOLD HIM IMPORTANT CHANGES/THINGS THEY DID TO HAVE THE SOCIETY THEY LIVE IN. MENTION 2 OF THOSE THINGS
Books were cut, ten-or twelve-line dictionaries.
School is shortened, discipline relaxed.
Philosophies, histories, languages dropped.
English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored.
They had more athletes than intelectual people because of changes in education
COMPLETE THE FIREMEN SLOGAN...
Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner...
burn them to ashes, then burn the ashes
WHO IS PPROFESSOR FABER? HOW IS HE RELATED TO MONTAG?
A retired English professor who has a few books and helps Montag to understand them
WHAT DO BOOKS REPRESENT IN THE STORY?
individuality and an escape from mind control, transformation, humanity
WHAT DID FABER MEAN WHEN HE SAID: "A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?"
a book can make someone more intelligent, and with intelligence comes power. Beatty believes that people can abuse this intelligence and power to destroy the society they have created to control people
WHAT ARE THE 3 THINGS MISSING IN MONTAG´S SOCIETY ?
1. High quality information
2. Time to digest information
3. Ability to act based on what people learn
WHAT IS THE PROCESS FIREMEN HAVE TO FOLLOW WHEN SOMEONE IS REPORTED TO HAVE BOOKS?
1. Answer the alarm quickly.
2. Start the fire swiftly.
3. Burn everything.
4. Report back to firehouse immediately.
5. Stand alert for other Alarms.
WHAT IS THE MECHANICAL HOUND? 3 CHARACTERISTICS
programmed to track down and destroy citizens that break rules, can distinguish over 10,000 different scents, injects morphine and procaine
WHAT IS THE SYMBOL OF THE Sieve and the Sand?
sand represents the knowledge that Montag seeks, the sieve represents his mind trying retain this knowledge
HOW WAS SCHOOL IN MONTAG´S SOCIETY? (3 facts)
TV class, sports, transcription history, painting pictures, students can't ask questions, they give them answers, film-teacher