F451: The Hearth and the Salamander

They don’t feed it to the rookies like they used to. Damn shame…Only fire chiefs remember it now… I’ll let you in on it

"I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean"

Ethos, Pathos, or Logos: "And wasn't it this bright boy you selected for beatings and tortures after hours?"

What does Montag take from the old lady's house?

“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door…Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man?”

What character trait would describe Mildred?

What character trait would describe the old woman who burned with her house?

What does Fahrenheit 451 stand for?

What character trait would describe Montag?

What does the power in 451 replace free thinking with?

Why does Beatty say we need to destroy all literature? What does literature create?

What does proboscis mean?

“With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world"

What character trait would describe the Mechanical Hound?

Determine Bradbury’s purpose for including the static, mindless character of Mildred.

Bradbury describes Montag as "cut in half". What does this idiom mean?

What character trait would describe Beatty

Define cacophony: “You drown in music and pure cacophony” (Bradbury 45). 

What character trait would describe Clarisse?

“Clarisse McClellan? We've a record on her family... Heredity and environment are funny things…"