Origin Stories
The genre of literature that is entirely realistic, except for one element.
What is magical realism?
What is "refused" in the short story "The Refusal"?
What is one wish from the citizens per year?
The theme of this unit.
What is the idea that there are things that connect and bring us back to one another?
The author of this book.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
Hannah's last name.
What is Sycks?
A story about a man who criticized the government too much, and the ugliest part of him appeared.
What is "The Nose"?
The main character in Ursula LeGuin's short story "She Unnames Them."
Who is Eve?
A play about the union of two families with different backgrounds.
What is Cherokee Family Reunion?
The first moment in the book where Montag starts to have a breakdown.
What is when Millie and her friends are over and he pulls out a book?
What Hannah wanted to be when she was younger.
What is a teacher?
A story about a man who appears in a small, South American community and becomes a local spectacle.
What is "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"?
Chinua Achebe wrote this text in response to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, wanting to change the narrative that white authors were imposing on African people.
What is "Things Fall Apart"?
Her hair was "inappropriate" and she became pregnant as a teenager.
The name of the fire engine.
What is the Salamander?
Hannah's favorite color.
What are earthy shades of green?
Nikolai Gogol, Franz Kafka, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Toni Morrison, Jorge Luis Borges, Alice Hoffman, Salman Rushdie
The place where Jimmy Santiago Baca (of "I Am Offering This Poem") learned to read and write.
What is prison?
Name one of the seven ages of man according to As You Like It.
infant, school-boy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon, second childishness
The name of the second part?
What is the sieve and the sand?
"Alright party people!"
Name one of the creation myths from around the world we read.
Egyptian, Mayan, Hindu, Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Chinese
The difference between these two genres is that one genre believes that literature must reflect the world around it, and the other believes that literature is an "act" that we are all in on.
What is modernism and postmodernism?
The name of the inventor who singlehandedly changed access to literature in the modern world.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
The book that Montag is responsible for memorizing parts of.
What is parts of Ecclesiastes and Revelation?
The thing Hannah is most looking forward to this summer.
What is reading books at the beach?