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Science Fiction
Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
Themes
Symbols
100
Advanced technology, futuristic setting, alternate location setting.
What is elements of science fiction?
100
Year of birth.
When is 1920?
100
The main character in the novel.
Who is Guy Montag?
100
Taking away knowledge cripples us physically, mentally, and intellectually.
What is Knowledge is Power?
100
Using concrete objects that we can observe through our senses (smell, see, hear, taste, touch) to represent abstract ideas.
What is symbols?
200
Type of fantasy writing which uses scientific facts, assumptions, or hypothesis to form a basis of a story.
What is science fiction?
200
Year of death.
When is 2012
200
The main chief of the fire station.
Who is Beatty?
200
Losing our own thinking means we lose a part of ourselves.
What is thinking for oneself?
200
Dual symbol which represents destruction and illumination.
What is fire?
300
Hero of a story.
Who is a protagonist?
300
At this age he wrote a sequel to a science fiction novel he had read.
What is age 12?
300
Montag's old professor.
Who is Faber?
300
All choices have consequences.
What is Choices require courage?
300
Dual symbol which represents drowning and rebirth.
What is water?
400
Future inventions, government's use of technology, and environmental impacts.
What is types of science fiction?
400
Place of birth.
What is Waukegan, IL?
400
The spider like creature whom Montag is most afraid of.
What is the mechanical hound?
400
Watching a baseball game should not mean more than listening to a parent, sibling, or a friend.
What is Fantasy and reality?
400
Represents surviving fire or ordeal.
What is salamander?
500
Humans now have new powers or senses.
What are strange powers?
500
Two other books Bradbury wrote.
What are The Martin Chronicles and Dandelion Wine?
500
Two human books who confronted Montag at the river.
Who is Charles Darwin, Jonathan Swift, Mr. Albert Schweitzer, Mr. Simmons?
500
We can talk ourselves into believing people we shouldn't.
What is we can deceive ourselves more than others can deceive us?
500
Represent independence and dependence.
Who are Clarisse and Mildred?