F451 Questions

1. Bradbury was connecting the Heart and the Salamander to Montag. In mythology, the salamander is a fire lizard capable of starting and putting out fires. Montag's job is a firemen and he starts the fires to burn the books.
2. The reader can make assumptions about Guy Montag through the first line that he enjoyed burning. It would be understandable if he loved his job of burning and putting things on fire.
3. This is negative imagery. It’s good imagery but it describes something negative. The great python is used to described the fire hose as something fearful and powerful.
4. The number 451 stands for the temperature at which books burn.
5. Clarisse McClellan is described oddly. She didn’t enjoy activities like watching the “parlor walls” or speeding the “beetle” which was very strange for Montag.
6. The name “Guy” is significant because it means sensible just like him. He wants to live and do things. Clarisse is significant because her name means bright or gentle just like her. She’s an optimistic person and fights the rules.
7.  She questions him by asking “Are you happy?” Which makes him question and think about that.
8. We learned that in that society that books are burned, people drive really fast and recognize by colors of the blurs, and that Clarisse’s uncle got stopped by the cops for being a pedestrian.
10. Montag realizes that he truly hasn’t been happy and he has been missing happiness from his life for quite sometime.
11. Seashells are ear devices which are “earbuds”. They bring noise to your ears and Mildred uses them to make her fall asleep.
12. After Montag meets Clarisse, he realizes that his marriage is basically dead and that he knows nothing about his wife. He describes their bedroom as a mausoleum which is building storing tombs. He describes Clarisse as out of the ordinary and optimistic.
13. Mildred needed a special machine to mend her from her overdose. The people used a machine that has an "eye" which they insert into her body to clean her. This machine basically represents the government or people keeping a close eye on you and being able to watch everything you do.
14. He realizes that technology is taking over and there's no way for people to know each other, other than a screen.
15. Montag describes his home as a tomb and dead which doesn't show love that a family should have. Unlike Montag, Clarisse's home was radiant and bright just like the love the family had for each other.