Fahrenheit 451 Section 3 Burning Bright Who turned

Fahrenheit 451 Section 3 Burning Bright

Who turned Montag in? l l Mrs. Bowles & Mrs. Phelps turned them in – Beatty ignores those complaints Millie – __________ – worried about TV more than Montag – l “Poor family, …everything gone now” Beatty - torn between duty as fireman/his conscience ? – – Beatty wanted Montag to be a good fireman Could have finished him off Beatty appears HUMAN “Didn’t I hint enough when I sent the hound around your place? ” l ________

Beatty & Montag l Beatty wants Montag to torch his own house – l l confesses to sending the Mechanical hound Beatty seems to feel regret but also enjoys tormenting him Beatty doesn’t realize Montag ______ burning his house – ________ of a life he hated

The Legend of _______ l Beatty compares Montag to ______ (more proof that he is well-read – l l ___________ allusion A young man who wanted to fly - made wax wings that worked - flew too close to the sun - melted & he died Beatty taunts Montag with this idea - going down wrong path will get him “BURNED” – Enlightment, too much knowledge = _______

Montag talks with Faber l l Faber tells Montag to leave through the ear radio Beatty discovers the ______ & threatens to go after ______ Montag: “We never ________ right” - firemen burn out of habit, should have been aware of what they were burning Beatty rants, Montag stalls him -”Go ahead – spit Shakespeare at me” - B

Montag Kills _______ l l Montag __________ to Beatty, killing him Did Beatty WANT to be killed? HE WAS EDUCATED - he didn’t fight back, stood there – defenseless – “Go ahead now, you second hand litterateur, pull the trigger. ” l Wants Montag to do it, or mocking him ? - Too cowardly to carry out any plan against firemen - Knew he was responsible for society “Don’t fix a problem – burn it” -people avoid problems rather than try to solve them

Montag gets away l l Montag is injured by the ________ – Needle – ______ is numb – Difficult to run Hears war is going on while on the way to Faber’s house Sobs b/c he realizes Beatty wanted to die Crosses a busy street to get to Faber’s house – Violence / speeding cars l l Tip of middle finger Carries out the plan – ______________ – Mrs. Black – Montag follows through w/ plan – phoned alarm l Color symbolism - ___________

Visit with Faber l l l Gets to Faber’s house safely Faber tells him of a place down the river Montag covers self in whiskey to kill the scent (protect from hound) – l l Faber’s suitcase w/ clothes Faber cleans house to rid of Montag’s scent “The _______ must go on, even with the war beginning within the hour” – – The televised hunt for Montag ___________ of society; illusion vs reality

Journey Down the River l l l Montag gets to river, splashes with whiskey and gets rid of his old clothes to lose the hound Follows railroad tracks to find a group of men around a fire At peace in river; _________ – Finally able to think (133) ________________to warm, soothing and pure –once was destructive & dangerous Once, long ago, Clarisse had walked here, where he was walking now. ” – Railroad tracks (literal) – path of enlightenment (symbolic)

Meeting Granger l l _________ is the leader of the group The group memorized ________ Gave Montag a ________ to change his body chemistry watched on a small TV an innocent man get killed by the hound –protect society – Needed an ending for the “show”

Granger l l His grandfather taught him Everyone must leave ___________ when he/she dies (149) Philosophy on life – we are just a tiny part of this planet. Don’t get caught up in your own ______________. (163) Mankind’s presence on this planet is ____. We’ll do this all repeatedly – go through another Dark Age and have to rebuild and flourish all over again.

Human Books l l Montag couldn’t remember what he read Montag would become the backup – l Book of _____________ (Bible) They were all in hiding, hoping to come back one day and influence everyone to read & think again

War l l A _______ strikes the city. Everything is destroyed Millie is dead (159) – l l ________ got away? They started walking down the river to return to the city – l Montag imagines she sees her true self (reality) before her death (mirror) “And all the _______ they might need to look around…” Hope for the future

Hope l l _________ – city reborn from the ashes – “…someday we’ll quit making the funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them. ” ___________ – Mildred’s imagined death – Granger – force people to look at themselves and reality

Hope l ____________ – Montag has been trying for at least fifty pages to remember some passage of the Bible – When his world is destroyed, the ______ come back to him – Something is destroyed, but something is created at the same time l cycles