Fahrenheit 451 Questions

Part One:The Hearth and the Salamander
1. The firemen burn books for a living.
2. In the opening scene books are compared to birds because when they burn the pages look like the wings of birds.
3. Montage thinks he has a great job.
4. On the way home Montage meets Clarisse McClellan.
5. Symbolically I think it means that you never get rid of the guilt you have.
6. I think that Bradbury would introduce Clarisse before Mildred because Clarisse probably has a bigger role in the story more then Mildred.
7. Mildred needs help when Montag gets home because she had an overdose on her sleeping pills.
8. The help that Mildred receives is that two men come to their home and flush out her system of the sleeping pills.
9. Yes, there is something unusual about the two men. It’s unusual because they don’t seem professional and they aren’t listened M.D.
10. Montag’s house is different from Clarisse’s house because her family doesn’t follow the ways of society.
11. Mildred acts as if nothing happened from the night before, she doesn’t remember a thing from that night.
12. Mildred stays home, talks to the walls and to the television, which is her “family”.
13. Montag’s TV room has three walls and it consists of Mildred’s “family”.
14. Clarisse is walking in the center of the sidewalk with her head held up in the rain.
15. Clarisse is different from Mildred because she acts more mature then Mildred.
16. The mechanical hound is an electronic dog mad by the government that burns books
17. The hounds reaction to Montag is that it barks and growls at Montag.
18. The society thinks that Clarisse is “anti-social” because she doesn’t act like the other kids her age.
19. At the next fire Montag steals a book from the house.
20. Beatty reveals that at one point at his life he read a book and it didn’t affect him at all he thought that it meant nothing.
21. Mildred uses shells that have the sound of the ocean in them to go to sleep.
22. Mildred’s family is the walls and the television.
23. Clarisse died and she supposedly got hit by a car.
24. It was unusual because she didn’t act like she cared at all and that it didn’t mean a thing to her.
25. Three things that Beatty talks about in hi speech are that buy putting more cartoons into books makes reading a breeze and less complicated for the mind, bigger population more minorities we have, and people in TV series don’t really represent certain things.