Dystopia
Entertainment in F451 serves what roles? List at least 2
Controls the population
Distracts / escapism
Spreads propaganda
What is it?: with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world
Personification OR metaphor
The character who wakes Montag up and initiates his hero's journey is..
Clarisse
In F451 Jesus is...
A mascot for selling products
And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up.
Montag
Utopia means..
Dystopia means..
An imaginary perfect place..
A bad place (typically seems like a utopia at first)
What is it?: "his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. "
Metaphor
Who is Granger?
Leader of the rebel intellectuals on the traintracks
How did the book ban start?
People lost interest in reading and got offended by books
You laugh when I haven’t been funny and you answer right off. You never stop to think what I’ve asked you.
Clarisse
What is propaganda?
biased information to manipulate, usually highly emotional & oversimplified info
A book alighted (...) like a white pigeon,
Simile
Who is Faber?
former English professor, helps Montag
What is the main goal of the group Montag joins at the end?
To memorize books
I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I’m alive.
Faber
Where do we find propaganda in F451?
Denham Dentifice Ad, TV, Fugitive alert , Anti-book rhetoric, Jesus selling products etc.
What is it?: "A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. "
Metaphor
What makes Captain Beatty paradoxical?
He is educated and well read but he hates books
What question does Clarisse ask Montag that upsets him?
Are you happy?
None of those books agree with each other. You’ve been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel.
Captain Beatty
What is school like in F451?
Screens, mindless trivia, no deep thinking
Define paradox
Contradictory ideas, usually has some meaning or truth though (dead and alive)
Which character brags about seeing her kids only twice a month?
Mrs. Phelps
What poem does Montag read to Mildred's friends and how do they react?
Dover's Beach, cry/mad
Funny, how funny, not to remember where or when you met your husband or wife.”
Mildred