elements
Robotic animal for the fireman with the purpose to burn books and catch fugitives
What is surveillance
What is Bradbury warning us about?
what is the path humanity is on
Why does Bradbury incorporate these elements?
What is call of action
”she was the first person in a good many years I’ve really liked/she was the first person I can remember who looked straight as me as if i counted” (who are they describing)
What is Clarisse McClellan
Represents the shallow citizen by being super engaged in their television and acting cold and shallow around others
What is mildred
“Colored people don‘t like little black sambo burn It. White people don’t feel good about uncle tom’s cabin burn it.”
What is Information/independent thought and freedom are restricted and/or censored
Bradbury is critiquing this advancement
What is technology
“and one day he would look back upon the fool and know the fool. Even now he could feel the start of the long journey.“
What is guy montag
Book leader who tries to preserve literature
What is granger
“I’ve heard rumors the world is starving but we’re well fed:
What is citizens having fear of the outside world
What Bradbury tells us is declining
What is decline of being intellectual
“We having everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something missing. The only thing I positively knew was gone was the books I’d burn in ten or twelve years so I thought books might help”
What is the symbol not character?
What is disatisfaction
Friend of Mildred who does not appear to be concerned of her third husband being sent off to war
What is Mrs. Phelps
The rise of dystopian society due to losing this
What is freedom
“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget”
What is the sieve and the sand
Believes that society is the way it is due to cowards such as them although they still possess books
What is professor Faber
“a bomber fight had been moving east all the time they talked, only now did the two men stop and listen, feeling the great jet sound tremble inside themselves”
What is constant war
What is being suppressed
What is individualism
We read the books and burn them. Afraid they’d be found…better to keep it the head where no one can see it or suspect it”
What is granger
Makes montag realize he is miserable by asking “are you happy”
What is Clarisse