Literary Fire
The two animals Bradbury uses to describe the firehose and the burning pages in the opening lines
What are a python and pigeon winged birds?
The devastating four word question Clarisse leaves Montag with on the dark street during their very first night meeting
What is Are you happy?
The electronic beetle radios shoved directly into Mildred's ears every single night to block out reality
What are Seashells?
The mythical lizard insignia worn on the arm of a fireman's uniform coat representing an animal that can survive flames
What is a Salamander?
The recurring, terrifying audio distraction screaming through the clouds that constantly reminds the population of an impending international conflict
What are jet bombers?
The specific architectural feature in his home hallway that Montag stands perfectly still and stares at for a long time
What is the ventilator grill?
The number of Clarisses friends who were shot in the last year alone proving the extreme underlying violence of her peers
What is six?
The vital piece of biographical information that neither Montag nor Mildred can remember about their ten year marriage
What is where or when they met?
The famous historical figure whom the Fireman's official rule book falsely credits as establishing the very first burning department in 1790
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The illegal physical action Montag commits during the chaotic raid on the old woman's house before spraying the kerosene
What is stealing a book?
The hidden secret that Montag's hyper fixation on the hallway ventilator grill foreshadows for the reader
What is a secret stash of hidden books?
The label Clarisses high school gives her because she prefers to observe think and ask questions rather than participate in mindless activities
What is anti social?
The dangerous event Montag discovers in his dark bedroom that forces him to call an emergency medical pumping crew
What is Mildred's sleeping pill overdose?
The chemical substance Montag claims smells exactly like a perfume that never entirely washes off his skin
What is kerosene?
The person who actually strikes the kitchen match that sets the old woman's library on fire
Who is the old woman herself?
The specific literary archetype Guy Montag represents as a flawed protagonist who breaks his society's laws to pursue a greater truth
What is an antihero?
The unusual offense Clarisses uncle was arrested for while simply utilizing his own feet on a public street
What is being a pedestrian?
The monetary cost of the fourth television wall Mildred begs for which amounts to one third of Montags yearly salary
What is two thousand dollars?
The multilegged copper and brass synthetic predator that tracks its targets via advanced sense of smell at the fire station
What is the Mechanical Hound?
The words spoken by the old woman on her porch Play the man we shall this day light such a candleas I trust shall never be put out
What is Master Ridley?
The two reflective and time keeping objects Montag compares Clarisses face to because she mirrors his inner thoughts back to him
What are a mirror and a clock?
The everyday, natural pastimes like hiking and catching butterflies that cause the state to force Clarisse to see a psychiatrist
What are her hobbies?
The warm, personal term Mildred uses when referring to the fictional interactive television actors broadcasted on her parlor walls
What are her family?
The weaponized item extending from the Mechanical Hound's snout used to inject lethal jolts of morphine or procaine into targets
What is a four inch hollow steel needle?
The specific historical event Captain Beatty reveals as the origin of the old woman’s final words before her death
What is the burning of Hugh Latimer at the stake for heresy in 1555?