Fahrenheit 451 Study Guide

THE HEARTH AND THE SALAMANDER PART 1

Clarisse McClellan is a young girl who walks with Montag to the corner of the street. She is called anti-social and doesn't attend school

Guy Montag is a fireman, but his job isn't to put out fires, it's to set fire to books.

Kerosene

No, Montag was not truly happy

Mildred was Montag's wife, she attempted suicide, by taking too many sleeping pills

this kind of thing happened so often that they had it down to a science and a machine could complete the procedure

whole wall TVs that allow you to interact with the people on the TV. Montag and Mildred have 3

The mechanical hound is a robot dog that hates Montag with a burning passion

He believes it has been programmed to kill/hate him

Clarisse likes to talk to people instead of play sports and activities

her uncle

she tells Montag about how firemen would put out fires instead of start them

THE HEARTH AND THE SALAMANDER PART 2

Another one of the Firemen. Montag's boss.

An alarm went off in the firehouse. Most ofter, neighbors turned each other in

"Any man is insane who thinks he can fool the government and us."

Montag takes a book

They looked prettier at night

She couldn't bare to live without her books

She was hit by a car. Yes it was an accident

The many books he had hidden

He thinks they should be burned because everyone should be the same. People don't need to think for themselves

Montag shows her his collection of books he hid in the closet

the hearth and the salamander both represent fire in the novel

THE SIEVE AND THE SAND

Faber was an old English professor who was an ally of Montag

Montag went to see Faber because he wants to devise a plan to bring books back.

Faber thinks that "quality information, the leisure to digest it and the freedom to act on what they learn

The plan they devise is to plant books in the homes of other firemen so that the firemen will get arreated and there will be no one to enforce the anti-book laws

Montag starts to rip the Bible

Faber made a seashell devise to put in Montag's ear so that the two of them could be in constant contact

To meet an old printer

Faber told him to do this to show Mildred's friends he was playing a trick on them

In the bushes outside his house

Montag's house

it symbolizes a memory Montag has of his childhood when he was putting sand in a sieve. this is symbolic because of when Montag was trying to memorize passages in the bible but a toothpaste ad kept playing thus making it difficult for him to retain the information. The sieve symbolizes the toothpaste ad and the sand symbolizes the knowledge that Montag is trying to retain.

BURNING BRIGHT

Both Mildred and her friends

Montag killed Beatty because Beatty was going to kill Montag and burn Faber's house

Montag knew the Mechanical Hound would catch him if he did run away

To Faber's house

In the direction of the river and railroad line

Montag took these items to hide his own scent. Also no one would expect him to be dressed like that

To Montag, they reminded him of Clarisse. He imagined that she once walk along the same tracks

The fire Montag saw after leaving the river is different that the other fires he has seen before. This fire meant to warm. It's being CONSTRUCTIVE not DESTRUCTIVE.

The hound had lost track of Montag's scent. The government wanted to keep peace

The men Montag met identified themselves in this way because they had memorized that work or something be that author.

Montag had memorized part of Revelation and part of Ecclesiastes

The city had been demolished

Tehy believed their job was to learn from previous mistakes and always remember.

Because Montag "burns bright" when he starts his new life with the men and when he sees a better future for society.