Main Characters
Why are people so violent in Fahrenhight 451?
Violence is the only way the people in society can express their anger, frustration, and unhappiness.
What does dystopian mean?
The genre imagines worlds or societies where life is extremely bad because of deprivation, oppression, or terror.
When does Montag's life begin to change?
When Montag begins to read books.
What does Montag steal from a house he was supposed to burn down?
A book
What happens to the city Montag lived in?
An atomic bomb gets dropped.
She helps Montag open his eyes to his life.
Clarrise
What is a firefighter's job in this society?
To start fires, and burn books.
What does Mildred do to her husband?
She betrays him and flees their marriage.
Why does Montag get frustrated at Mildred's friends and reads them a poem?
He gets frustrated because they are watching TV and being disconnected just like Mildred always is.
What does Montag remember when seeing the wreckage?
Information about his wife Mildred and recalls the tale of the bible.
Why does Mildred overdose on sleeping pills?
Mildred spends all her time numbing herself, and she mistakes her numbness for happiness and contentment.
Where does Farenhight 405 take place?
Takes place in an unreported time in the future in the United States
What does Montag realize when him and Mildred remember how they met?
Their life together is meaningless and purposeless.
What was Montag's and Faber's plan to destroy their corrupt society?
To place books in the firemen's house.
Did anyone survive the atomic bomb.
No, it destroyed everything.
This character is a symbol of authority.
Beatty
What is the society that Montag lives in like?
Everyone is the same, they all say the same things and no one asks questions.
Why does Montag think the hounded acted the way it did?
He thinks someone programmed the hound to act aggressively towards him.
Who does Montag get inhabited by?
Men who preserve books through their memory.
What is Montag's plan from now on?
To re-build a socitey where books aren't banned.
He has multiple books in his attic.
Montag
Why did the government ban books?
Books were banned in an attempt to keep society happy
Montag sets .... on fire
Beatty orders Montag to burn his house down. Instead of burning his house down he sets Beatty on fire and starts to flee the city.
Who kills Montag?
No one, the government killed an innocent man to show that they are powerful.
What does the ending of this book represent?
Old corrupt societies can start a new beggining...where books can exist once again.