Characters
This character quotes the most literature in the novel.
Captain Beatty
This shows up at Montag's house after the woman is burned.
The Mechanical Hound
"How like a mirror, too, her face."
Simile
While running from the police, Montag remembers visiting this place once.
A farm.
This character asks Montag if he is happy at the beginning of the novel.
Clarisse
"Then she seemed to remember something and came back to look at him with wonder and curiosity. 'Are you happy?' she asked".
Montag believes that Captain Beatty would fear this character.
Clarisse
The novel ends after this happens to the city.
Bombs are dropped, destroying the city.
"Her face...was fragile milk crystal with a soft and constant light in it".
Metaphor
The book of the Bible Montag tries to remember on the train.
The Book of Ecclesiastes
This character believes fire is "bright and clean".
Captain Beatty
"Fire is bright and fire is clean"
The person Montag first talks to after reaching the train tracks.
Granger
This ad is why Montag cannot remember passages from the Bible he read on the train.
Denham's Dentifrice
Personification
Montag remembers meeting Faber here a while ago.
A park.
This character says their favorite subject is themselves.
Mildred
He squinted at the wall. “That favourite subject, myself.”
“I understand that one,” said Mildred.
This character is the last person to call in an alarm on Montag.
Mildred
This is how Mildred feels after Montag refuses to return to work after the burning of the woman.
Worried about money and her television.
"Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn them to ashes, then burn the ashes".
Allusion
Montag and Mildred can't remember...
(hint: this has two parts)
when and where they first met
Faber says these 3 things are missing from society.
1. Quality of information
2. Leisure time to think about the information
3. The right to act on the information
"Number one, as I said, quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two."
These characters tried to kill Montag.
12-16 kids in a car
The sign of trouble Montag sees when he returns to the firehouse after he reads the poem to Mildred and her friends.
The Mechanical Hound is gone.
This is what the phoenix symbolizes at the end of the novel.
The rebirth of humanity
The phoenix is a universal symbol of renewal, rebirth, and resilience, due to its nature of burning alive and being reborn from the ashes.
Montag provides this reason for Mildred's overdose.
She forgot how many pills she took in the night and took too many.
“It was a pleasure to burn.”