The New Society
Clarisse likes to hang around nature.
What is her favorite passtime?
What is the new purpose of the fire department in Fahrenheit 451?
They are responsible for the burning of libraries and books.
What is Montag's job?
He is a fireman who burns libraries and books.
Who was Mildred Montag?
Mildred is the wife of Guy Montag.
Schools mainly teach 4 things, Sports, TV, Transcription History, and painting pictures to suppress intelligence.
What do schools mainly teach?
She is weird to others because of her disinterest in television and love for nature.
Why is Clarisse considered a weirdo?
Why would the Hound growl at Montag?
The Hound likely growls at him because someone interfered with the Hound's profile of Montag, making it growl at him in response. They input 'memory' into the Hound which made it growl at him.
What started his doubts of the Fire Dept.?
What started his doubts of the Fire Dept. was him starting to piece together from Clarisse that he did not like his job.
Why was Mildred rushed into the ER?
They only talk about what is shown to them, and have no originality.
What do the students at school talk about?
Clarisse was involved in a car crash, which from what we know killed her or stopped her from being in the area for a long time.
Why did Clarisse supposedly disappear?
What did the firemen do to pass the time?
They played chase with the mechanical hound, making chickens and rats run from it until caught.
What realization did Montag have after talking more with Clarisse?
He had the realization he did not love anyone, not even Mildred. In his words, he would cry at his wife's funeral not by grief, but by the fact he has no grief for her.
What happened after Mildred woke up from the overdose?
She did not remember even taking the pills. She had completely wiped that memory from her head, and she could not care less about her attempted suicide.
The medics care so little about their patients due to them being routine.
Why do the medics care so little about their patients?
She is antisocial because of her traits that differ from the student’s minds that mostly never speak anything original.
How is Clarisse considered antisocial in the eyes of the school’s kids?
Why would the Fire Dept. need to burn books in the first place?
They burned books to limit the intelligence of society, in turn making it easier to control them and manipulate their thoughts. To ensure no one escapes this system, they burn books.
Why did he sneak home a book from the home he burnt down?
He snuck a book home because of the brief glimpse he had of words in them, and also because of the shock he had after seeing the woman's reaction to her books being lost. He thought they must have some value to them, so he took one home.
What did Mildred display in front of Montag that outraged him?
She had completely forgot about her first time meeting him, and to add onto that she even said it did not matter, as it was 10 years ago. It was blasphemous.
The books were so important to her because of the knowledge gained from them that is super valuable to her.
Why were the books so important to the woman?
How did Clarisse completely rewrite Montag's view on his job and his life?
She introduced new ideas to him that he had brushed off as simply idiotic to think about, which in turn had made him realize new things. This provided the base for his questioning of society, books, and the firemen.
He knows the quote by memory because he likely knows more than he lets on about literature.
How would Captain Beatty know the woman’s quote by memory?
What is Montag's confliction with his job?
He is conflicted with being a fireman because of the events he had experienced over the time span shown in the novel. He was told he does not enjoy being a fireman, was shown how important books are to some people, and realized his own nihilism towards his wife. Those all manifested into his doubt that affects his work.
What does Mildred mainly represent about society in Fahrenheit 451?
She mainly represents the new lows of intelligence and emptiness of society, with her not even caring enough to remember her meeting Guy for the first time and also her incredibly low attention span, forgetting what she was talking about and forgetting to give context to Guy.