OBJECTS
These mini-radios are often found in people's ears. (F451)
What are Seashells?
The fire captain who knows a lot, but has given into societal norms.
Who is Captain Beatty?
Meg's intelligent five-year-old brother who can read minds.
Who is Charles Wallace? OR Who is Charles Wallace Murry?
"Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag. Take your fight outside. Better yet, into the incinerator."
What is censorship? OR What is book burning?
"Nobody listens any more. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me. I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say."
Who is Montag? OR Who is Guy Montag?
Mildred wants a fourth one of these.
What is a parlor wall?
The heroine and protagonist of A Wrinkle in Time who must go and rescue her father.
Who is Meg Murry?
This seventeen year old character often refers to her uncle as a source of wisdom; she considers herself crazy in her dystopian society.
Who is Clarisse McClellan?
"The fact is we didn't get along well until photography came into its own. Then--motion pictures in the early twentieth century. Radio. Television. Things began to have mass."
What is technology replacing books? OR What is entertainment replacing reading?
What Montag often takes to work or get around town.
What is the subway?
These are affectionally considered family by Mildred.
What are the parlor wall characters? OR What are the TV characters?
Considers himself a coward; stopped teaching when people chose to stop learning.
Who is Faber? OR Who is Professor Faber?
This popular boy ends up going with Meg on her quest to find her dad.
Who is Calvin O' Keefe?
"As she pressed against her father, all was forgotten except joy. There was only the peace and comfort of leaning against him, the wonder of the protecting circle of his arms, the feeling of complete reassurance and safety that his presence always gave her."
What is the comfort or power of parental love?
What is the planet Camazotz? OR What is Camazotz?
In A Wrinkle in Time, the characters travel by this.
What is a "tesser" or "wrinkle"?
"Funny, how funny, not to remember where or when you met your husband or wife."
Who is Mildred?
This dark shadow symbolizes the evil force that the characters must fight against in A Wrinkle in Time.
What is the Black Thing?
Established in 1790 by Benjamin Franklin, firefighters are to respond to the alarm and start the fire swiftly and burn everything before returning immediately to the firehouse.
What is changing history?
"They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming pools mostly and say how swell! But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else."
Who is Clarisse? OR Who is Clarisse McClellan?
The shape, figure, or name of the fire engine that the firefighters drive.
What is the Salamander?
They are described as "monstrous crystal chandelier tinkling in a thousand chimes," with their "Cheshire cat smiles burning through the walls of the house..."
Who are Mildred and her friends? OR Who are Mildred, Mrs. Phelps, and Mrs. Bowles?
This being gave up her existence as a star in order to fight the Black Thing.
Who is Mrs. Whatsit?
"It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment, she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real."
What is that music and art can bring relief from the tension between good and evil?
This is no longer part of the house; in the past, people would locate here to talk into all hours of the night. (F451)
What is a porch? OR What is a front porch?