Characters
He is the main character and antihero of the story.
Who is Guy Montag?
This famous line opens the novel to show Guy Montag’s initial pleasure in his job: “it was a pleasure to…”
What is “burn”?
The story is currently placed during a war.
Why are there fighter jets in the story?
Guy Montag meets this unusual 17-year-old neighbor who sparks his internal awakening.
Who is Clarisse McClellan?
The number 451 on Montag’s helmet represents this specific temperature.
What is the temperature at which paper burns?
She made Guy Montag question if he is truly happy.
Who is Clarisse McClellan?
"I'm seventeen and I'm crazy."
What does Clarisse describe herself as when Guy Montag ask for her age?
The firemen made the hound chase rats and chickens and placed bets.
What did the firemen do to pass time and amuse themselves.
Guy Montag returns home to find Mildred unconscious after overdosing on this type of medication.
What are sleeping pills?
This creature on the firemen’s badges represents survival of fire, based on an ancient myth that it can live in flames.
What does the salamander represent?
She wanted a fourth television for the fourth parlor wall.
Who is Mildred?
"None of those books agree with each other."
What is an example of personification in the story?
Tiny earbud radios that fit inside Mildred’s ears to stream music and news day and night.
What are seashell radios?
Two mechanical devices to perform a quick routine procedure on Mildred?
What is pumping and replacing her blood?
This mythical bird symbol on Montag’s uniform represents a creature that burns itself into ashes and is reborn.
What does the phoenix represent?
He is the chief of the firemen and a shady character.
After Clarisse leaves Montag, he reflects on his cheerfulness: “He wore his happiness like a…”
What is a “mask”?
People in this city drive cars really fast, rarely stopping to look at this around them.
Why don’t people look at the scenery.
Clarisse rubs this flower under Montag’s chin to test whether or not he is in love.
What does is the dandelions purpose?
Clarisse uses this bright yellow flower to test if Montag is in love, symbolizing nature and truth.
What does the dandelion symbolize?
This women chooses to strike a match and burn alive alongside her books, rather then leaving her home to prove a point and stand up to authority.
Why does the old lady stay in the burning house?
"You've been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel."
What is one example of irony in the story?
Clarisse is called “unsocial” at her school because she likes to talk instead of watching TV.
Why is Clarisse called unsocial?
An eight-legged creature programmed to track and kill opponents.
What is the mechanical hound?
The two simple objects used in Part 1’s title to symbolize the warmth of a house versus a destruction of fire.
What do the hearth and the salamander represent?