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