Symbols Characters Plot Meet Guy Montag Objects 100

Symbols Characters Plot Meet Guy Montag! Objects 100 100 100 200 200 200 300 300 300 400 400 400 500 500 500

Symbolic title that represents the firemen and destruction of books

Fahrenheit 451

A mythical creature that spontaneously combusts and resurrects itself from its ashes.

The Phoenix

Symbol worn on the firemen’s coats

The Salamander and/or The Phoenix

Object which is programmed to hunt its prey

The Mechanical Hound

Color associated with purity used to describe Clarisse

White

Character who finds him/herself “unhappy. ”

Montag

Person who is wise beyond his/her years

Clarisse

Person who is afraid to feel anything but happiness and acts robotic

Mildred

Person who calls the firemen the “Happiness Boys”

Captain Beatty

Person who knows a lot about the past and has had a huge influence on Clarisse

Clarisse’s uncle

Describe the scene where Montag returns home late from work and finds his wife in bed. What was she doing? What happens because of what she did?

She overdosed on sleeping pills. Montag needed to call the Emergency Hospital, and two technicians came to use the cobralike machine to “pump” her stomach and then drained her blood to replace it with new blood.

Montag meets Clarisse one night walking home. What two questions does she ask him?

1. “Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of trying to start them? ” (p. 8) 2. “Are you happy? ” (p. 10)

Describe the last time Montag meets up with Clarisse. Where did they meet? What did they talk about?

They met out on the street while it was raining. She talked to Montag about her love of drinking the rain, showed him the dandelion trick, and she bombards him with questions like, “How did it start? How did you get into it? How did you pick your work, and how did you happen to think to take the job you have? ” (p. 23)

What two questions does Beatty answer when he goes to visit Montag at home?

1. Why do we burn books? 2. What happens if a fireman steals a book? DAILY DOUBLE!!! What are the answers to the above questions?

What happens at the end of section one, “The Hearth and the Salamander, ” after Beatty leaves Montag’s house?

Montag realizes he is unhappy and needs to read the books he has stolen over the past months. He tells all of this to Mildred and begs her not to burn them. As they are about to begin reading, there is a knock at the door, and they think it is Beatty. Montag decides not to answer, and begins reading.