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Montag

a. The protagonist. He was a fireman, and burned books. He started to question why books were so bad. He got help from Faber, and showed courage for standing up for what he believed

. "Denham's Dandy Dental Detergent, Denham's Dentrifice ..."

alliteration

"Old Montag wanted to fly near the sun and now that he's burnt his damn wings, he wonders why."

allusion

"Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries..."

beaty

"Don't step on the toes of the dog lovers ... Baptists ... Texans .... The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy! .... Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca."

censorship

"We've got to start somewhere here, figuring out why we're in such a mess, you and the medicine nights, and the car, and me and my work. We're heading right for the cliff, Millie. God, I don't want to go over. This isn't going to be easy. We haven't got anything to go on, but maybe we can piece it together and figure it and help each other...And if there is something here, just one little thing out of a whole mess of things, maybe we can pass it on to someone else."

change

"Oh, just my mother and father and uncle sitting around, talking. It's like being a pedestrian, only rarer. My uncle was arrested another time - did I tell you? - for being a pedestrian. Oh, we're most peculiar.

claireese

"But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else.

conformity

"If you put it in your ear ... I can sit comfortably home, warming my frightened bones, and hear and analyze the firemen's world, find its weaknesses without danger. I'm the Queen Bee, safe in the hive. You will be the drone, the traveling ear.

faber

"He opened the bedroom door. It was like coming into the cold marbled room of a mausoleum after the moon has set."

simile

" ... she seemed hypnotized by the salamander on his arm and the phoenix disc on his chest ..."

symbolize

. "Mildred watched the toast delivered to her plate. She had both ears plugged with electronic bees that were humming the hour away.... She was an expert at lip reading from ten years of apprenticeship at Seashell ear thimbles."

technology

What is the symbolic meaning behind the title "Fahrenheit 451?"

the temperature book paper burns

PLOT SEQUENCING: _Montag suspects that Clarisse is dead because he hasn't seen her in a while. Mildred confirms his guess and says that she was ran over by a car.

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PLOT SEQUENCING: Beatty knows that Montag has a slight interest in books. He warns Montag to burn all of the books that he has because the consequences will not be good.

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PLOT SEQUENCING: Mildred is scared that because Montag is reading books Beatty is going to come back and Montag will be in trouble. She pleads with Montag to stop but he resists.

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PLOT SEQUENCING: Montag meets Clarisse on his way home from work as a fireman.

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PLOT SEQUENCING: When Montag arrives at the house, he sees Mildred - with her bags packed - leaving. He knows she and her friends turned him in

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PLOT SEQUENCING: _Beatty makes Montag burn his own house. He does, and then he kills Beatty and destroys the mechanical hound and takes off on the run

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PLOT SEQUENCING: _Montag flees to Faber's house. Faber is glad to see him alive and they have their last talk before they see each other again in the near future. Faber gave Montag whiskey and old, smelly clothes to keep the Mechanical Hound away from catching Montag's scent.

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PLOT SEQUENCING: _Montag escapes the mechanical hound by jumping in the river. the river and floats along in its path where it'll take him to the countryside. Montag then reaches land and there he meets Granger and other scholars.

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PLOT SEQUENCING: _Granger accepts Montag to be in their pack. Montag, Granger, and the rest of the scholars discuss the books they've memorized.

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PLOT SEQUENCING: _As the group begins to walk down the river stream in hopes to reach the city, they hear the city being bombed and hope they'll be able to reconstruct the society.

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PLOT SEQUENCING: Montag walks into his home after work and finds his wife lying on her bed lifeless. He knew that his wife attempted to commit suicide.

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PLOT SEQUENCING: The fire station gets a call to burn down Mrs. Black's house. When they arrived to light her books on fire Mrs. Black stayed in her house with all of her burning books.

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PLOT SEQUENCING: _Montag meets up with the English professor Faber and they have a long talk about books and Faber explains to Montag what he can learn and feel emotionally through books. Montag and Faber come up with a plan to get books back into society.

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PLOT SEQUENCING: _When Montag goes home his wife has her friends over. Montag finds this the perfect opportunity to share poetry with them. Mildred's friends Mrs. Bowles and Mrs. Phelps leave their house emotional and frightened about what they just heard.

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PLOT SEQUENCING: _Beatty takes Montag to go and burn another house and when the fire truck reaches its destination Montag realizes that it is his house that is going to be burnt. He has been caught and there is no turning back now.

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Faber

A retired English teacher who Montag met about a year ago. He helped Montag escape from the fireman, and he shows courage by not believing in book burning.

Mildred

Montag's She's insipid, vacant, and obsessed with television. She is the poster child for the average citizen in this future world.. She is obsessed with watching television and refuses to engage in frank conversation with her husband about their marriage or her feelings. Her suicide attempt, which she refuses even to acknowledge, clearly indicates that she harbors a great deal of pain. Small-minded and childish, Mildred does not understand her husband and apparently has no desire to do so.

Clarisse

Montag's thoughtful seventeen year old neighbor that questions everything. She is from a family different from most others and is later killed by a speeding car.

What is the symbolic meaning behind "The Hearth and the Salamander?"

The Hearth and the Salamander. salamander is what they wear because they are fireproof and the hearth is fire

Beatty

The captain of Montag's fire department. Although he is himself extremely well-read, paradoxically he hates books and people who insist on reading them. He is cunning and devious, and so perceptive that he appears to read Montag's thoughts. and c. Head fire chief. Found out that Montag was questioning the burning of books and sent the Mechanical Hound after him. Montag later burned him to death

Grange

The leader of the "Book People," the group of hobo intellectuals Montag finds in the country. Granger is intelligent, patient, and confident in the strength of the human spirit. He is committed to preserving literature through the current Dark age

. What is the symbolic meaning behind "The Sieve and the Sand?"

its something from montage memory

5. "He made more soft sounds. He stumbled toward the bed and shoved the book clumsily under the cold pillow. He fell into the bed and his wife cried out started. He lay far across the room from here, on a winter island separated by an empty sea."

loneliness

"The whole culture's shot through. The skeleton needs melting and reshaping.

metaphore

"She's nothing to me; she shouldn't have had books! It was her responsibility; she should've thought of that. I hate her."

mildred

"There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing."

montang

"The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live ..."

paradox

"[T]he flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house."

personification