f451

Question 1

how did clairsee die

Answer 1

speeding car

Question 2

plot of f451

Answer 2

Guy Montag and his transformation from a book-burning fireman to a book-reading rebel

Set in a future society where books are banned and “firemen” burn any that are discovered

Question 3

symbols of f451

Answer 3

The symbols of the firemen are their torches and salamanders. The salamander symbolizes withstanding extreme heat and pressure. The torch symbolizes power, which the firefighters direct at the books and homes they seek to destroy.

Question 4

themes

Answer 4

censorship, mass media (parlor)

Question 5

what is the motif (reoccurring element in lit)

Answer 5

In the novel, these motifs are religion, nature imagery, and paradoxes. Religion as a motif shows how Montag’s view of the world changes.

Question 6

setting of f451

Answer 6

“Fahrenheit 451” takes place in an unnamed Midwestern city sometime after 2022, the year in which the U.S. “started and won two atomic wars” (p. 69). It is a world in which books have been banned and when discovered by mechanical dogs programmed to sniff them out are burned by “firemen” like Montag.

Question 7

characters. (montag)

Answer 7

montag (fireman guy that no longer wants to burn books but read them)

Question 8

character (beatty)

Answer 8

Captain Beatty is Montag’s boss and the Captain at the fire station where Montag works

Question 9

character (Clairse)

Answer 9

the young girl in the beginning of book killed by speeding car.

Question 10

character (faber)

Answer 10

retired English professor that Guy Montag, the protagonist of Fahrenheit 451, meets in the park. Faber becomes a mentor to Montag after Montag reads the books he has been sneaking into his house. While the two men were talking in the park, Faber gave Montag his address.

Question 11

character

Question 12

character

Question 13

character