Fahrenheit 451 Answers

Name: Fahrenheit 451 Study Guide Important info about (this could be in character matching, quote identification, or multiple choice): Montag – Torn between the life he’s used to and what he thinks is right. Has always been a follower and is uncomfortable in a leadership position. Clarisse – considered odd in her society. Is happy to be different. Truly believes in the beauty in nature and individuality. Teaches Montag about nature, love, and happiness. Inspires Montag to take books. Mlidred informs Montag that she was hit by a car. Mildred – Montag’s wife. Completely consumed by the parlor walls and seashells. Thinks she is happy, but it is a false sense of happiness. Calls the alarm on Montag and leaves him. Beatty – Fire chief. Confronts Montag and shares his knowledge of books. Explains that firemen all go through what Montag goes through but that they must return to conformity. Montag kills him when the alarm is called. Faber – old man from the park a year ago. Thinks of himself as a coward for not rebelling. Devises a plan with Montag to change the society. Granger – Leader of the Book People, a group of well-educated men who memorize the books. Takes Montag in. Discusses how they are not trying to rebel but believes humans will cycle back to books. He will be there when they are ready. The Hound - Mechanical creature that can be programmed to hunt a human and paralyze or kill him. Montag thinks the hound is after him. The hound does attack and paralyze his leg Montag when the alarm is called. The first scene with Mildred – Overdoses on sleeping pills because she is trying to sleep. Medics revive her and act as if it is no big deal Montag and Mildred’s relationship – barely know each other after all these years. Do not love each other. Cannot even remember how they met. The parlor walls – wall sized interactive televisions. Can cover multiple walls. Mildred is obsessed with these and wants a 4th so that she can completely shut out Montag. The woman who was burned with her books – was confident in burning with her books. Said. “Play the man, Master Ridley…” (36) quoting from her books, refusing to let them take her knowledge. Mildred hates her for upsetting Montag into staying home sick. Beatty’s thoughts on books –Said that when society was small, books were good, but too many people led to less and less books. Technology, mass exploitation, and pleasing everyone were the reasons books were banned. Clarisse’s family – considered dangerous/strange because they talk, enjoy nature, drive slowly, think, etc. Her uncle was arrested for simply taking a walk. They all disappeared when Clarisse died. What happened to Clarisse? – Hit by a car The “Dover Beach” scene – Montag reads a poem to Mildred’s friends to tell them not to let their knowledge, spirit, and interest in the world disappear. Mildred is furious. The friends are appalled. Mildred’s friends – vapid, uninterested in knowledge, vote based on looks, do not enjoy parenting Denham’s Dentifrice – Montag is trying to memorize a passage from a text and can’t because the Denham’s Dentifrice jingle is playing over and over. It’s like a sieve with sand in it – the information is pouring out of his head when he wants to hold it in. Montag and Faber’s interactions – Met in the park, Montag always remembered. Goes to him when he decides he wants change. Faber develops a type of seashell where he can talk to Montag like a walkietalkie. Faber’s thoughts on books – find books of the utmost value. Books provide leisure time to think, information, and the right to act on knowledge. Beatty and Montag’s interaction when Montag is called on for the books – Beatty quotes from books as he calls Montag a coward and a follower. Beatty makes Montag burn his own house down. Montag burns Beatty too. How Montag escapes – Changes his clothes, drinks alcohol, and floats in the river to lose his scent. Escapes through the woods and along train tracks. Faber turns the sprinklers on, burns what he touched, and wipes down surfaces he touched. The purpose of the Book People – to memorize books, burn them, and be prepared to share the knowledge when the world is ready for it again. Symbols – firetruck – salamander. Firemen - phoenix Driving in the society – Everyone drives really fast – in fact, illegal to drive slowly. Billboards are really long so people can see them at high speeds. The vent in Montag’s house – Where he has stored books The war – No one pays attention to it because they are absorbed in meaningless things. Society ends up being bombed in the end. Firemen and books – If they take a book, they have 24 hours before they have to return it and return to normal. “Dangers” according to society – thinking, reading, sitting on porches, taking walks Also, be familiar with who said important quotes.