Characters
What does Mildred do that prevents hear from thinking and acknowledging how she really feels about her life?
What is her Seashell ear thimbles?
What did Clarisse introduce herself as when she first talked to Montag?
What is seventeen and crazy?
"They fell like slaughtered birds and the woman stood below, like a small girl, among the bodies."
What is the woman being compared to?
What is a small girl?
What does the phoenix mean on the firefighters uniform symbolize?
What is rising from the ashes?
What happens in this society if they find books in your house?
What is the firemen burning books and the houses with them?
Why does Clarisse think she doesn't fit in with kids at her school?
What is everyone acts the same and their interests are centered around violence?
What was Captain Beatty referring to when he said this to Montag " I wouldn't want to be its victim. Why? You got a guilty conscience about something?
What is Beatty suspicious about Montag?
"He felt his body divide itself into hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a not trembling, the two half grinding one upon the other."
What did Clarisse say before for him for him to react like this?
What is "That's why I think it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn't seem right for you somehow."?
What does the part old the quote "...he had begun to cry, not at the thought of death but the thought of not crying at death..." mean?
What is that he wouldn't cry if Mildred died?
What was the main hobby of teenagers in the town?
What is killing each other?
Which one of the men that Montag works with recited the words of the woman whom they went to go burn her books.
What is Beatty recited her words?
What relationship dynamic did Montag say he felt with Clarisse?
What is fatherly?
"It's a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when its not."
What type of figurative language is this and what does it mean?
What is a metaphor that is telling us that the school system shows them unnecessary information instead of what is really important?
"What a shame, You're not in love with anyone. Yes, I am! It doesn't show. I am, very much in love! He tried to conjure up a face to fit the words, but there was no face. I am!"
What can we infer that Montag still hasn't realized?
What is Montag not being in love with Mildred?
What did the people do that limited their lack of knowledge besides not reading?
What is watching excessive amounts of television?
How was Montag in the beginning of the book, what's the difference between the old and new Montag?
What is the honored and proud fireman to have the "fiery smile" to burn books. The old one was an ignorant fireman that was overly proud of burning books, the new one now collects books secretly and doubts himself and his job if he is really doing the right thing?
"The first time we ever met, where was and when? I don't know, Can't you remember? It's been so long. Only ten years, that's all, only ten!"
Who were the characters who say this and what's does this suggest about them?
What is Mildred and Montag and their marriage relationship that is cold and distant?
"She was only standing, weaving from side to side, her eyes fixed upon a nothingness in the wall, as if they had struck her a terrible blow upon the head."
What is this referring to?
What is the assimilation and acceptance of an unavoidable situation?
"I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking to you about things..."
What does Clarisse mean when she says they consider her "antisocial" even thought she's a very social person?
What is Clarisse's preference in to having a genuine and meaningful interaction with someone instead of having society's addiction to television and violence.
"war may be declared any hour. This country stands ready to defend its...The firehouse trembled as a great flight of jet planes whistled a single note across the black morning sky."
What is happening and what can we say about it ?
What is a declared war?
What did the woman in the burning house do before the firefighters left that was usually done by the firemen?
What is light the match?
What did the women of the burning house do, that made Montag feel sick? After the burning house situation how did this affect Montag, Captain Beatty, Stoneman and Black?
What is the women burning herself with her own kitchen match. The firemen's were so surprised that they didn't even smoke their pipes and they sat their in silence in the great salamander?
When Montag said " It was like a faint drift of greenish luminescent smoke..." what emotion is being portrayed?
What is paranoia?
"Montag looked at these men whose faces were sunburnt by a thousand real and ten thousand imaginary fires, whose work flushed their cheeks and fevered their eyes."
What does the "sunburn" symbolize?
What is trauma and the men being tainted by their work?
"An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures...us sitting there for four more hours of film teacher."
What can we infer about the school's lesson plan?
What is school's excessive use of television?