What happened?
This is where Clarisse and Guy Montag meet.
Where is walking on the sidewalk?
This is how Mildred tries to take her own life as the novel opens.
What is an overdose of sleeping pills?
Montag has stolen this many books during his career.
What is 20?
“Culture is not one that celebrates or even tolerates a broad range of self-expression. Hedonism and mindless entertainment are the norm.”
What is conformity vs. non-conformity?
451°F is the temperature at which paper and books burn
“Firemen” burn books
What is fire?
He has grown discontent with his life and curious about the books he burns.
Who is Guy Montag?
This is the metaphor for the animal that Montag used when he described the stomach pump and blood-replacement machine that the EMS used on Mildred. (Think Garden of Eden!)
What is a snake?
He is apparently homeless and lives with a group of people who value knowledge very much.
He and his group are patiently waiting for humanity to reemerge as rational, free thinkers.
Who is Granger?
What is she was ran over by a car?
Have the knowledge and not use it to better society (Faber)
Learns to take action (Guy Montag)
Inaction in WWII led to what?
What is Action vs. Inaction?
This symbol represents knowledge, “oppression,” and the former way of life.
What are books?
When we first “meet” her, she has apparently attempted suicide by taking a bottle of pills.
However, the next day she seems to remember nothing.
Who is Mildred Montag?
This is the number of walls that are TV walls in Montag's home.
What is 3?
What symbol is on Montag's fire helmet?
What is a Salamander?
Fahrenheit 451 opens with these words.
What is "It was a pleasure to burn"?
Distractions (media, fast cars)
Burning of books
Clarisse and Faber sparking Guy Montag’s quest for knowledge
Montag’s subsequent search for knowledge
What is censorship?
These are essentially fireplaces that are traditionally the center of the home and the source of warmth.
What is hearth?
He owns some books in his home but lives in terror (cowardice?) that he will be discovered.
He lives alone in a bitter self-hatred for refusing to speak out while he had the chance.
Who is Professor Faber?
This is what happens to the woman who refuses to leave her books behind.
What is "she is burned alive after striking a match to set herself and her books on fire"?
Part 1 ends with Mildred and Guy Montag doing this.
What is reading books that Montag stole?
Name 1 of 2 events that sparked Montag to read the books he stole and begin to think for himself.
What is seeing the woman die with her books and talking with Clarisse?
The novel implies that the most important factor leading to ____ is the objections of special-interest groups and “minorities” to things in books that offend them.
What is censorship?
According to myth, the _____ was a bird who burned himself and was reborn from his ashes
What is a Phoenix?
She is considered by society to be an outsider because she is interested in nature, people, genuine conversation, and knowledge.
Who is Clarisse McClellan?
This novel takes place in which type of society:
Utopia
Caste System
Dystopia
Communistic.
What is Dystopia?
Name one of the things the McClellans (Clarisse's family) do that cause them to be classified as peculiar.
What are take walks, not watch TV, stay outside and talk, enjoy nature?
Identify who said this: "And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper"?
Who is Guy Montag?
Montag’s encounters with Clarisse, the old woman, and Faber ignite in him the spark of doubt about this approach. This is an example of Knowledge vs. ____.
What is Ignorance?
This symbol is linked to baptism.
What is a river?
He is a book burner with a vast knowledge of literature and history, probably cared deeply for knowledge at some point.
Who is Captain Beatty?