Characters
He's the main character and a fireman
Who is Guy Montag?
What Montag does for a living.
What is burn books?
Mildred listens to these all day.
What are the parlor walls (TV screens)?
“It was a pleasure to ___.”
What is burn?
Montag's uniform has this mythical creature on it, symbolizing rebirth through fire.
What is a phoenix?
She's Montag's curious teenage neighbor who asks lots of questions
Who is Clarisse McClellen?
The color of fire, which is repeated often in the book.
What is orange or red?
The thing Mildred uses in her ears to listen to music or voices.
What are seashells (earbuds)?
Clarisse says: “Are you ___?”
What is happy?
Clarisse says people talk about cars and TV but never about this.
What is ideas or how they feel?
Montag’s wife who overdosed on sleeping pills
Who is Mildred (Millie)?
This is the temperature at which books supposedly burn.
What is 451 degrees Fahrenheit?
The society in the book has banned this item.
What are books?
Montag says: “You ever seen a burned house? It smells like ___.”
What is kerosene?
The mechanical hound at the firehouse reacts to Montag with this strange behavior.
What is growling or threatening him?
He’s Montag’s boss at the firehouse.
Who is Captain Beatty?
What the firemen use to burn houses.
What is a kerosene hose or flamethrower?
Clarisse says this has made people stop thinking.
What is technology or fast living?
Montag refers to books as having ___ in them.
What is something or meaning?
Montag laughs when Clarisse asks if he’s happy. This shows he’s actually feeling this inside.
What is confused or empty?
This character makes Montag start questioning his life.
Who is Clarisse McClellan?
What the firemen do instead of putting out fires.
What is start fires?
What the government wants people to be instead of thinking.
What is happy or entertained?
Captain Beatty says fire is ___ because it erases problems.
What is clean or cleansing?
The woman who burns with her books quotes this famous person: “Play the man, Master Ridley…”
Who is Hugh Latimer (or the martyr from history)?