Fahrenheit 451

Characters

Guy Montag

30 years old

General Info

Set in the future

Written in the early 1950s

Clarisse McClellan

Ran over by car

teenage neighbor to Montag

Fireman

Mildred Montag (Millie)

Guy's wife

addicted to:

Sleeping pills

Watching the parlor walls

Mechanical Hound

Tracks down and captures people by stunning them with a tranquilizer

Captain Beatty

Fire Chief

Scared of books

Realizes he is not happy

Seems to know montag stole a book

Can sense things through traces of chemical compounds

Smile permanently etched on his face

People should only feel happienes

Plot Line

Salamander

Meet Clarisse going home

Lives with her mother, father, and uncle

451F is the temperature at which book paper burns

Takes place in the 24th century

Tranquilizers

well-educated

Burning a woman alive over her books caused him to rethink his life

the social norm now if very different

3 parlor walls

displays knowledge of books

Is burned by montag

The Sieve and the Sand

Introduce Montag

Husband to Mildred

New cools things that exist

parlor walls

jet cars

Fireman

toaster that auto dips in butter

Mildred pretends to remember

acts like she is not interested in Guy

Married 10 years

Family is TV Shows

Guy read a line of a book a took it

Stolen about 20 books

Met Faber a year earlier

Novel happens over the course of 3? weeks

Been a fireman 10 years

Been dead about a week (ran over by car) when Montag finds out

Faber

Met Montag in park year before

An old English professor

belives people need all but books

Friends:

Mrs. Phelps

Mrs. Bowels

Get angry when Montag reads Dover Beach

Cries when Montag reads Dover Beach

Montag turns in one of his books to Captian Beatty

Burns his own house down to the ground

click to edit

Loves her TV Family more than real people

Hides them behind a vent in his house

Books became shorter and less controversial because:

cause some people to be smarter than others

people only want to have fun

Don't want to offend anybody

Mad at the woman who died with her books

The people are responsible with the current state of society

the people decided to get rid off boooks

She is not happy that montag stays home from work because h e is sick


she want a fourth parlor wall in her house

Children start kindergarden early

So parents cant teach them how to think

Overdose on sleeping pills is an attempted suicide

Likes to hit animals with her car, makes her feel better

Two "handymen" pump her stomach and replace her blood.

If Mildren where to die he would not cry

Dad and grandpa where fireman

fire descirbed as bright and clean

Books have been shortened to a page or less

Burn books

censors of the state

Create by Benjamin franklin

irony

he created library's

made the first fire department

Novel happens in the fall season

Without new ideas, everyone conforms, so everyone should be happy

Ask's montag, "are you happy?"

in the hounds mouth (proboscis)

has 8 legs

Her eyes area mirror for montag

She reminds montag of his mother

When Mildred dies

He remembers they met in chicago

He really does care for her

she has nothing to live for

Doesn't remember the next day, she thinks there was a party

3 things he says society needs

Makes $6,000/y as a fireman

Lives in a kennel in the 'dark' corner of the firehouse

sleeps but does not sleep

lives but does not live

rubber padded paws

olfactory setting can be changed

Fireman have it hunt cats, chickens, rats, etc for fun

4in hollow steel neeedle

injects morphine of procaine

The fireman show up at Montag's home

Insect legs

TV Class!

Friends:

has few because she is 'social

6 of them have been shot in the last year

10 died in car crashes

Supposedly said by Mille and Beatty

Likes to watch people

Somewhere in the US

Slowly fades throughout the story