Characters
This character has books planted in his/her house.
Who is Black?
"We never burned right."
Who is Montag?
"He could feel the Hound, like autumn, come cold and dry and swift, like a wind that didn't stir grass, that didn't jar windows."
What is a simile?
Montag has this thought as soon as he walks on the railroad tracks.
What is Clarisse has been here before?
The firetruck is represented by this symbol.
What is the salamander?
Montag realizes this character was safely able to escape before the first bomb fell.
Who is Faber?
"[Fire's] real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.
Who is Beatty?
"There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, for they pass me by as an idle wind, which I respect not."
What is an allusion?
The colorless fluid in the bottle Faber gives Montag does this.
What is change his chemical complex?
Montag smells hay and thinks about this
What is going to a farm when he was a child?
This character's alias is Plato's Republic.
Who is Granger?
Montag pictures this character finally realizing who he/she really was right before death.
Who is Mildred?
...the great idiot monsters lay asleep
What is a metaphor?
Montag hears this in the bathroom of the gas station.
What is "war has been declared"?
Montag'a feelings about Mildred being in the city
What is he does not care--at all?
He was a sculptor.
Who is Granger's grandfather?
"The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise."
Who is Granger?
The heat of the racing headlights burnt his cheeks...
What is personification?
This is the reason the police kill a "fake" Montag.
What is to provide a snap ending/closure/entertainment for the viewers?
Granger says mankind is like this.
What is A phoenix?
This character's alias is the Book of Ecclesiastes.
Who is Montag?
"Montag is dead; a crime against society has been avenged."
Who is the TV announcer?
The Phoenix representing a bird that lives for 500 years, and then sets itslef on fire, rising renewed from the ashes
What is symbolism?
Where Montag and Millie met
What is Chicago?
Summarize Montag's revelation about sun, time, and burning. What needs to stop burning?
Both sun and time have been forever, and nothing terrible goes wrong. It is only when humans burn do things get destroyed. Humans (firemen) need to stop burning.