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FAHRENHEIT 451 :fire: (CHARACTERS (Clarisse (Non-conformist (out of the…

- - - - Burns
        
        houses
        
        burns a woman alive
        
        why
        
        she refuses to get out
        
        prefers to stay with her books
        
        Montag steals a book
        
        3 more items...
        
        books
    - - until he meets Clarisse
        
        he realizes he is in discontent with
        
        job
        
        he starts to develop another feeling towards fire
        
        society
        
        does not see beyond
        
        they dont think by themselves
        
        wife
        
        he doesnt love her
  - - - "Are you happy?" (p.10)
        
        catalyst
        
        one of the question that gets Montag thinking
        
        he admires her curiosity
        
        "She didn´t want to know how a thing was done, but why." (p.60)
        
        doesn´t understand how she knew about his loveless life
    - - she thinks independently
        
        the government can't control her nor her family
        
        reason she is categorize as odd
        
        "We´ve watched them carefully...You can´t get rid yourselves of all the odd ducks in just a few years." (p.60)
    - - she is different to the rest of society
        
        her classmates and psychologist think she is anti-social
        
        "It all depends on what you mean by social." (p.29)
    - - out of the norm
        
        interested in things Montag doesn´t get
        
        savoring rain
        
        watching people and creating a conversation
      - not molding yourself to something you are not
    - - contrast between her and Mildred
        
        she has no taste for technology
        
        antithesis of Mildred
        
        she prefers nature
    - - helps Montag see his reflection
        
        "He saw himself in her eyes...himself dark and tiny, in fine detail" (p.7)
  - - - lectures Montag so that he doesn't fall into the temptation of the books
        
        contradicts himself
        
        if he knows a lot about books, at some point in his life he needed to care about them
        
        he says how books are misleading weapons, yet he uses them to manipulate Montag
    - - modifies the Mechanical Hound sniffing chemicals to scare Montag
    - - people stopped reading books
        
        technology was enhanced
      - Books made people think and they got confused
      - books made people unhappy
    - - burnt alive
        
        by Montag
        
        Beatty provokes him
        
        Montag cant control himself
        
        Montag is followed by the police
        
        he realizes "Beatty wanted to die" (p.122)
  - - - shallow
        
        overwhelmed by Montag
        
        reports he has books
        
        abandons Montag and the house
      - numbed
        
        does not think, accepts what is given to her
      - submerged in technology
        
        Seashell radio
        
        "And in her ears the little Seashells...There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea." (p12)
        
        Parlor walls
        
        the member inside are her "family"
        
        she pays extra so the machine pronounces her name
        
        everyone does this to avoid one-to-one talk
        
        this is consider weird
        
        this is what Clarisse likes to do
        
        jet cars
      - suicidal attempt
        
        scares Montag
        
        plummers fix her
        
        it's so common, doctors don't do it
        
        she doesn't even remember
  - - - the city is destroyed
        
        he leads the group
        
        planning to rebuild an new and literate society
    - - as faber, guides Montag in his journey of understanding books
- - - - fireplace
      - traditional symbol of the home
      - heats home
    - - vertebrate
      - traditional symbol of the firemen
      - (belief) it lives in fire
    - - involve fire
        
        this is the name of first chapter, when Montag declares the pleasure he feels when he burns
  - - - climax
        
        "You always said, don't face a problem, burn it. Well now I´ve done both. Good-bye Captain (p. 12)
        
        at this moment, Montag has killed Beatty
        
        he uses Beatty´s words against him
      - falling action
        
        "I went around doing one thing and feeling another" (p.131)
        
        Montag recognizes he wasn't even happy when he said he was
        
        he has stolen books before but never had to courage to read them
        
        this means he didn't love his job not even at the beginning of the novel
        
        he had the courage thanks to Clarisse and the old lady
      - rising action
        
        "and i thought maybe it would be best if the firemen themselves were burnt" (p.67)
        
        Montag starts developing a hatred against firemen
        
        This happens when the old lady is burnt alive inside her house with her books
        
        After this event Montag is traumatized
        
        this leads to an unwise decision of stealing a book
        
        1 more item...
      - resolution
        
        "That small motion...a strange fire because it meant a different thing to him. It was not burning. It was warming" (p.145)
        
        when Montag is in the other side of the river, he had already deflected the Mechanical Hound
        
        he said this in the last chapter when he was spying on Granger
        
        he learn that fire isn't bad depending on how you use it
      - Exposition
        
        "it was a pleasure to burn" (p.1)
        
        he loved seeing fire eating things up and leaving ashes on its behind
  - - - he compares this to his attempt of memorising the Bible in less than a day
        
        if he reads fast enough, some of it will stay in his memory
        
        after a failed attempt, he goes to Faber,s house to seek answers
        
        they talk and plan what Montag is going to do to start a rebellion
        
        this leads to Beatty´s death and persecution
  - - - Granger brings up this metaphor
        
        it means that mankind is like a phoenix that burns itself up and then rises up from the ashes as a reborn bird.
        
        it also refers to Montag´s resurrection
        
        then they reach the city and the book ends
        
        remember the mistakes of the past
- - - - promotes equality
      - equalizes the population
    - - although he is full of knowledge he promotes ignorance since it is what he wants to believe
    - - Clarisse
        
        her family, especially her uncle, teach clarisse how to think and appreciate nature
        
        she transfers this knowledge to Montag
      - Faber
        
        former professor
        
        coward but tries the best he can to help Montag in his attempt of rebellion
      - Granger
        
        former author
        
        he knows everything that needs to be know about books
  - - - Mrs. Bowles
        
        after hearing Montag´s poem she is upset and angry. this is because she is a conformist and thinks having a book is wrong. This is because she strongly believes in the government´s wishes
      - Beatty
        
        he tries to convince Montag that reading is a dangerous thing and he should avoid it
        
        he modified the Mechanical Hound to send a warning to Montag so that he gets that reading is poisonous
      - Mildred
        
        turns Montag in
        
        does not like the idea of reading forbidden books with her husband
    - - opposite of a non-conformist
        
        Montag after he meets Clarisse
        
        Clarisse
  - - - Replaces intellectualism, literature and independent thinking
        
        it supposedly brings "happiness to people
        
        people are happy when they dont think, therefore, they dont worry
      - substitutes friendship, family and any kind of relationship.
        
        people have conversations with the TV and they absorb everything that is given
        
        for this mean, technology is what the government uses to oppress its citizens
  - - - lack of interest from the readers
        
        the television and radio appeared
        
        people no longer care about books
        
        it was easier to received the information right away rather than read it and analyze it
        
        advertisements
        
        Dehamns Dentrifice
        
        doesn´t allow Montag to concentrate on his reading
        
        Meanwhile, everyone else is singing and tapping to the commercial, Montag is frustrated because he can´t focus on his reading.
        
        its only him who has this problem because he is the only one trying to think, meanwhile, the others are just repeating what they are hearing
        
        jet cars
      - people felt offended with content the books contained
        
        "You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can´t have our minorities upset and stirred" (p.59)
        
        with this said, Beatty explains that we live to be happy and have fun so we can´t allow a book destroy our happiness
        
        "Colored people dont like Little Black Sambo. Burn it...Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag." (p.59)
      - people don't like to feel inferior than others
        
        since people that read more know more, people felt dumb next to them, therefore, unhappy
        
        for this reason, if nobody read, everyone was equal
        
        "Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal." (p.58)
- - - - their society
        
        books are restricted
        
        technology dominates
        
        people aren't given options
        
        authoritarian society
        
        no ability to connect in person
        
        jets (extremely fast)
        
        money to upgrade their parlors
        
        family is found on the TV
        
        no celebrations (less emotions)
      - Our society
        
        technology dominates
        
        cars that go fast
        
        books are allow (but not all of them in all countries)
        
        we need money to survive
        
        our family shares the same DNA
        
        celebrations
    - - the government gained control of society by telling people what to think
      - people needed to conform to what the government said was right
        
        this discouraged individual thought
      - they got rid of books so that later on people wouldn´t protest
      - some people did not conform, but the people who chose to do it was such a vast majority that some of the non-conformist like Faber gave in and didn't do something about it.
        
        people were afraid of getting killed or getting their house burned.
    - - independent thought restrcited
        
        parlor walls
        
        they dont share ideas with people
        
        they don't practice conversation
        
        no books
        
        they aren't given options
      - natural world is destructed and banished
        
        jet
        
        they go so fast people cant appreciate nature
        
        " My uncle drove slowly on a highway one...and they jailed him for two days." (p-9) -Clarisse
        
        "...drivers don't know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly." (p.9)
      - citizens feel trapped and struggle to escape
        
        clarisse
        
        since little, her family teached her how to have an independent thought
        
        likes to talk about his uncle
        
        faber
        
        he wants to do something but doesn't want to get killed
        
        he has worked on the little earbud so that he could help when someone like Monag appeared
        
        at first he is to scared to risk his life for his beliefs
        
        montag
        
        he meets Clarisse
        
        sees the world with other eyes
        
        feels trapped with Mildred who doesn't want to acknowledge the truth
        
        granger
        
        leads a group of literate people to escape from the current society