The Seashell Radio
This is the name for the thimble sized radio Mildred keeps in her ears all night
What are the Seashells?
In the dark bedroom, Montag's foot kicks this small object across the floor before he even sees it.
What is the empty sleeping pill bottle?
This is what roars over Montag's house the same night Mildred takes the pills, making a sound like ripping cloth.
What are jet bombers?
Just before she vanishes into the moonlight, Clarisse turns back and asks Montag this 3 word question that rattles him all night.
What is Are you happy?
Clarisse describes her school days as an hour of TV class followed by hour after hour of this, with almost no time left for actual questions or thought.
What is sports?
The sound pouring into Mildred's ears all night is a nonstop mix of these two things.
What are music and talk?
This is how many sleeping pills had been in Mildred's bottle earlier that same day.
What is thirty?
As Montag counts the planes flying over, the number keeps climbing past six and past nine, all the way up to this.
What is twelve?
Alone in the dark afterward, Montag realizes he isn't happy at all he says he's been wearing this the whole time, and Clarisse just ran off with it.
What is his mask of happiness.
Clarisse compares school to a lot of funnels with water poured through them, and the schools telling the kids it's this when it plainly isn't.
What is wine?
With her Seashells buzzing and her eyes stuck on the ceiling, Montag pictures Mildred doing this instead of really sleeping.
What is floating away on a sea of sound?
The two workers who show up use one machine to clean out Mildred's stomach, and a second machine to do this to her blood.
What is replace it with new blood?
All those planes flying overhead are a constant reminder of this big danger that hangs over the whole story.
What is war?
Mildred wants this expensive addition to the living room installed for $2,000 a full third of Montag's yearly pay so their family of TV relatives can surround them on every side.
What is the fourth parlor wall.
Reeling from the strangers who just pumped out his wife, Montag thinks there are simply too many of us, billions of us, and that nobody does this for anyone anymore.
What is know anyone?
This is how long it has been since Mildred spent even one night without her Seashells in.
What is two years?
The worker says they get called out for cases just like Mildred's this many times every single night.
What is nine or ten?
Montag says he felt this happen to his own chest as if he'd been chopped down and split apart the instant the bombers screamed overhead.
What is being 'cut in half'
Lying awake after the overdose, Montag suddenly needs to know the answer to this simple question about his own marriage, and neither he or Mildred can answer it.
What is when and where they first met?
This is the number of Clarisse's friends who were shot dead in just the past year, on top of ten more killed in car wrecks.
What is six?
Bradbury says Mildred goes under in that sea of sound every night, like someone drowning for this many times an old saying about drowning.
What is the third time?
The morning after nearly dying, Mildred greets Montag ravenously hungry and asks if this is what happened the night before, as her best guess for why she feels so awful.
What is 'did we have a wild party'?
After the planes are gone, Montag imagines the ground will be covered the next morning in a strange kind of snow made of this.
What is dust from crushed stars?
When Montag presses her on it, this is the number of years he reminds Mildred they've been married.
What is ten years?
By the end of a school day like the one Clarisse describes, kids are so worn out they're fit for nothing but sleep or a trip to one of these violent amusement venues, with names like the Window Smasher place.
What is a Fun Park?