Innovations
Small earbud radios that fill people's ears with constant noise and music.
What are Seashells?
The primary role of firemen in this futuristic world.
What is starting fires to burn books?
The 17-year-old free-thinking neighbor who asks Montag thought-provoking questions.
Who is Clarisse McClellan?
The official insect-like emblem on the firemen's uniforms.
What is a beetle?
Clarisse asks Montag this unsettling question right before she vanishes into her house.
What is "Are you happy?"
Small, glove-like technology used to open front doors automatically.
What is a glove door lock?
The minimum speed limit drivers must maintain to avoid getting arrested.
What is 40 miles per hour?
Montag's wife who spends her days immersed in the parlor walls.
Who is Mildred?
The creature that springs from its own ashes, worn on the firemen's chest pins.
What is a phoenix?
Montag tells Clarisse that kerosene smells like this to him, before realizing how overwhelming it truly is.
What is perfume?
The black cobra-like machine equipped with an eye that technicians use to pump toxic substances from a patient's stomach.
What is the stomach pump?
What citizens do at violent theme parks to release frustration instead of having deep conversations.
What is smashing things?
The fire captain who visits Montag to explain the history of their profession.
Who is Captain Beatty?
The flower Clarisse uses to test if Montag is in love.
What is a dandelion?
Clarisse tilts her head back to catch this on her tongue, telling Montag it tastes good.
What is rain?
Large distraction machine placed in homes to keep those from being too educated
What is parlor wall?
The type of workers sent to treat overdose victims instead of doctors.
What are technicians (operators)?
The eight-legged robotic beast used by the firehouse to track down targets.
What is the Mechanical Hound?
The mythic creature associated with fire that is painted on the fire engine.
What is a Salamander?
Clarisse notices that while most people talk about cars, clothes, or swimming pools, nobody ever talks about anything that is this.
What is original?
The vehicle firemen use to travel quickly to burn calls.
What is the Salamander?
The medical emergency people frequently experience from taking too many sleeping pills.
What is an overdose?
The woman who chooses to be burned alive with her home rather than give up her books.
Who is Mrs. Blake?
The number printed on Montag's helmet representing the temperature at which book paper burns.
What is 451?
The old woman quotes Hugh Latimer at the firehouse run: "Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a..."
What is "...candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out"?