FAHRENHEIT 451 🔥 
CHARACTERS
SYMBOLS
THEMES
knowledge vs. ignorance 
conformity 
technology 
censorship 
Montag
Clarisse
Beatty 
Mildred
The Hearth and the Salamander 
Fire 🔥
The sieve and the sand 
Genre
Dystopia
Curiosity
Individualism
Anti-social
Non-conformist
Foil
mIrror
Society
control
setting
independent thought restrcited
natural world is destructed and banished
citizens feel trapped and struggle to escape
clarisse
faber
montag
granger
parlor walls
no books
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
their society
Our society
helps Montag see his reflection
contrast between her and Mildred
she is different to the rest of society
"Are you happy?" (p.10)
catalyst
one of the question that gets Montag thinking
she thinks independently
out of the norm
not molding yourself to something you are not
stages of fire for Montag
climax
falling action
rising action
resolution
Exposition
"it was a pleasure to burn" (p.1)
"and i thought maybe it would be best if the firemen themselves were burnt" (p.67)
"You always said, don't face a problem, burn it. Well now I´ve done both. Good-bye Captain (p. 12)
"I went around doing one thing and feeling another" (p.131)
"That small motion...a strange fire because it meant a different thing to him. It was not burning. It was warming" (p.145)
Fireman
Burns
houses
books
thinks he is happy
until he meets Clarisse
he realizes he is in discontent with
job
society
wife
he doesnt love her
does not see beyond
they dont think by themselves
he starts to develop another feeling towards fire
burns a woman alive
why
she refuses to get out
prefers to stay with her books
Montag steals a book
questions if he can still be a fireman
finds faber
unleashes Beatty´s hidden knowledge about books
tries to convince Montag books are not worth it
plans a rebellion
kills Beatty
flees the police
meets Granger and his group
finds out he is not alone in this
watch how the city destroy itself
plan on giving birth to a renewed society
epitome of the status quo
shallow
numbed
submerged in technology
Seashell radio
Parlor walls
jet cars
does not think, accepts what is given to her
suicidal attempt
scares Montag
plummers fix her
it's so common, doctors don't do it
overwhelmed by Montag
reports he has books
abandons Montag and the house
she doesn't even remember
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
"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)
interested in things Montag doesn´t get
savoring rain
watching people and creating a conversation
her classmates and psychologist think she is anti-social
"It all depends on what you mean by social." (p.29)
she has no taste for technology
antithesis of Mildred
she prefers nature
he admires her curiosity
doesn´t understand how she knew about his loveless life
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 didn´t want to know how a thing was done, but why." (p.60)
"He saw himself in her eyes...himself dark and tiny, in fine detail" (p.7)
antagonist
captain of the fire house
vast knowledge in his arguments against books (he has read a lot)
lectures Montag so that he doesn't fall into the temptation of the books
used by the author to explain the background of books
people stopped reading books
death
burnt alive
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
by Montag
Beatty provokes him
Montag cant control himself
Montag is followed by the police
he realizes "Beatty wanted to die" (p.122)
technology was enhanced
Books made people think and they got confused
books made people unhappy
Granger
leader of the group
intellectual
as faber, guides Montag in his journey of understanding books
former author
the city is destroyed
he leads the group
planning to rebuild an new and literate society
he meets Clarisse
sees the world with other eyes
feels trapped with Mildred who doesn't want to acknowledge the truth
since little, her family teached her how to have an independent thought
likes to talk about his uncle
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
leads a group of literate people to escape from the current society
they aren't given options
they dont share ideas with people
they don't practice conversation
books are restricted
technology dominates
people aren't given options
authoritarian society
no ability to connect in person
technology dominates
cars that go fast
jets (extremely fast)
books are allow (but not all of them in all countries)
we need money to survive
money to upgrade their parlors
our family shares the same DNA
family is found on the TV
no celebrations (less emotions)
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.
Hearth
Salamander
fireplace
traditional symbol of the home
vertebrate
traditional symbol of the firemen
Both of them
involve fire
this is the name of first chapter, when Montag declares the pleasure he feels when he burns
(belief) it lives in fire
Montag´s childhood memory
he tried to fill a sieve with sand
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
Phoenix 
j
Granger brings up this metaphor
mythical bird
it means that mankind is like a phoenix that burns itself up and then rises up from the ashes as a reborn bird.
remember the mistakes of the past
it also refers to Montag´s resurrection
then they reach the city and the book ends
he loved seeing fire eating things up and leaving ashes on its behind
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
that causes Beatty to give in a speech about history of books
all of this spark a rebellion between Montag and society
at this moment, Montag has killed Beatty
he uses Beatty´s words against him
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
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
factors that lead to the censorship of books
lack of interest from the readers
people felt offended with content the books contained
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
"...drivers don't know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly." (p.9)
jet cars
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
"You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can´t have our minorities upset and stirred" (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)
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)
fireman´s work is to promote ignorance and eliminate knowledge
Beatty
promotes equality
equalizes the population
although he is full of knowledge he promotes ignorance since it is what he wants to believe
promotes knowledge
Clarisse
Faber
Granger
former author
he knows everything that needs to be know about books
former professor
coward but tries the best he can to help Montag in his attempt of rebellion
her family, especially her uncle, teach clarisse how to think and appreciate nature
she transfers this knowledge to Montag
TV
Replaces intellectualism, literature and independent thinking
substitutes friendship, family and any kind of relationship.
people have conversations with the TV and they absorb everything that is given
it supposedly brings "happiness to people
people are happy when they dont think, therefore, they dont worry
for this mean, technology is what the government uses to oppress its citizens
people strongly believe in the rules the government has set
people always do what they are told
opposite of a non-conformist
Montag after he meets Clarisse
Clarisse
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
people who question things are view as threats
heats home