Characters
The protagonist in Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, who begins to question if he is happy and thinks books might help is
Guy Montag
The temperature at which paper burns is
451 degrees Fahrenheit
Whole wall TV screens in the "parlors" of the houses
They caught another man with the mechanical hound at the TV's (inaccurately!) report that
Montag is dead (but he's really not...)
The author of Fahrenheit 451 is
Ray Bradbury
The flat character who is the young neighbor of the main character in Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, who likes nature, asks questions, and is killed by a car is
Clarisse
Guy Montag happily is a __________ until he meets his young, questioning neighbor, Clarisse.
fireman that burns books
These are used by Mildred and many people in the society of the novel, Fahrenheit 451, to listen to music or consume media constantly
whispring wasps, ear seashells
After escaping the city, Montag meets a bunch of "hobos" who are actually just displaced intellectuals. What is interesting about each of the "hobos"?
They each have one book memorized to be remembered until needed.
Fahrenheit 451 was first published in
1953
The static character who is the wife of the main character in Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, who spends all of her time watching TV or listening to "seashell" radios is
Mildred Montag
The reason Montag thinks the old woman decided to burn herself and her books instead of letting the firemen do it is
there is something IN THE BOOKS that was important enough that she didn't want to live without them.
The animal metaphor used by Ray Bradbury to describe the "stomach pump" and "blood-replacement machine" used on Mildred in Part One?
A snake
At the end of the novel the city is
destroyed by bombs
Faber says books are good for people because
they provide meaningful and quality information.
The round character who is the Fire Captain in Ray Bradburry's novel Fahrenheit 451, who has read a lot but still thinks books are bad for society and make people unhappy is
Beatty
His neighbor Clarisse asks him if he is happy, his wife overdosed and isolated herself watching tv or listening to the radio, and he sees an old woman willingly burn herself and all of her books are all events in the story that
cause Montag to lose faith in his job and question society overall.
This is used in Part Two by Faber and Montag to communicate while apart
a green bullet-shaped two way radio
that he met Mildred in Chicago
In the novel Fahrenheit 451, what is a phoenix and what does it symbolize?
it is a bird that burns and rises again- it symbolizes how mankind destroys itself but rebuilds
The Old English professor who helps the main character by giving them a two-way radio for their ear and helped the main character escape the city is
Faber
At the end of Part Two, a turning point in the story is when the Fire Company shows up at Montag's house. This is a significant event in the story because it is clear, that by him Taunting and making fun of Montag, Beatty is clearly trying to
This has the chemical make up of every member of Montag's society and is used to hunt criminals and monitor the society; Montag thinks this doesn't "like" him
the mechanical hound
What is different about the fire used by the "hobos" than what Montag is used to?
This fire was used for warmth, survival and is a place for social interaction. This fire did NOT "burn" destroy, or kill... it "gave" instead of "took."
The Central Idea of the novel Fahrenheit 451 is
there is danger in censorship and the importance of individual thought and knowledge in a society is important.