You Laugh When I Havent Been Funny and You Answer Right Off

Unformatted text preview: Fahrenheit 451 PART I Reading Guide ' "You laugh when I haven't been funny and you answer right off. You never stop to think what I've asked you...I don't mean to be insulting. It's just I love to watch people too much, I guess." (Bradbury, 6) Clarisse is curious and full of life. She loves asking questions and watching people. Clarisse is also very observant. According to Montag, she's strange, especially for their time. "...two pale moonstones buried in a creek of clear water over which the life of the world ran, not touching them...Her face was like a snow-covered island upon Mildred is described as "a snow-covered island", which rain might fall, but it felt no rain; over which meaning her face was pale, lifeless. Montag had kicked clouds might pass their moving shadows but she felt no something, a pill bottle, that was full with 30 tablets, but shadow. There was only the singing of the thimble-waspsis now empty. Mildred had attempted suicide, and in her tamped-shut ears, and her eyes all glass, and Montag realized he was not happy. breath going in and out, softly, faintly, in and out her nostrils, and her not caring whether it came or went,went or came." (Bradybury, 11) ' "His anger did not even touch them...'First, why don't you tell me if she'll be all right?'...'Neither of you is an Montag is concerned about the apathy of the medical staff. M.D. Why didn't they send an M.D from Emergency?'" He wants his wife to be okay, but isn't convinced due to (Bradbury, 12) the attitude and mannerisms of the medical staff that pumped her stomach. ' " He's connecting the droplets of rain to the events of the day. The sentences get shorter as the paragraph goes on, showing the racing thoughts of Montag as he sits in the " hospital chair. : "'It's really fun. It'll be even more fun when we can afford to The parlor walls are walls that double as TVs. One wall is one have the fourth wall installed. How long you figure before we big TV. Mildred wants a fourth one installed, but they're too save up and the the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall-TV put expensive. in?'" (Bradbury, 18) : "Night when things got dull, which was every night the The Hound doesn't like Montag, so he doesn't men slid down the brass poles, and set the ticking combinations of the olfactory system of the Hound and participate in fear of his life. Most nights, he stays where the Hound can't get to him. let loose rats in the firehouse areaway, and sometimes chickens, and sometimes cats that would have to be drowned anyway and there would be betting to see which of the cats or chickens or rats the Hound would seize first." (Bradbury, 22) ' : "Why is it, I feel like I've known you so many years?'...'Because I like you and I don't want anything from you. And because we know each other.' 'You make me feel very old and very much like a father.'" (Bradbury, 26) Montag and Clarisse are friends, despite being so far apart in age, they can be father and daughter. Clarisse likes to talk to him about the world. Montag finds her strange, but so easy to talk to. "'They don't miss me.I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange...I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other...People don't talk about anything." (Bradbury 26-28) Clarisse is seen as an outcast. She's scared of making friends because all of her friends had died. The school sounds very boring, so she doesn't go. It doesn't suit her, she thinks. ' "The woman knelt along the books, touching the drenched leather and cardboard, reading the gilt titles with her fingers while her eyes accused Montag. 'You can't ever have my books.'...'I want to stay here'...The woman on the porch reached out with contempt to them all, and struck the kitchen match against the railing." (Bradbury 36-38) : ' : The lady refuses to leave her house, and lights herself on fire with the books. Montag wants to rush her out of there, but she's stubborn and refuses to move. On the way back, no one says anything. : "'What more easily explained and natural?...Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally 'bright', did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn't it this bright boy you selected for beatings and tortures after hours? Of course it was...So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the short from the weapon. Breach each man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?'" (Bradbury 55-56) Beatty's explaining how things used to be in school. The smarter kids were bullied, but no one did anything about it because it's none of their business. He also explains that the man who reads becomes a weapon. No one understands why anyone would read because it fills the mind with pointless fantasies and makes each person different. If there were no differences, there wouldn't be any bullying. That's why they burn books. "So it was the hand that started it all. He felt one hand and then the other work his coat free and let it slump to the floor. He held his pants out into an abyss and let them fall into darkness. His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms. He could feel the poison working up his wrists and into his elbows and his shoulders, and then the jump-over from shoulder blade to shoulder blade like a spark leaping a gap. His hands were ravenous. And his eyes were burning to feel hunger, as if they must look at something, anything, everything." (Bradbury, 38) Montag had taken a book from the woman's house before it burned down. The author uses the word "infected" to demonstrate the way the kerosene makes Montag feel. Bradbury describes the kerosene as "poison working up his wrists." When Bradbury says "His hands were ravenous", it describes his metaphorical hunger to touch something, most likely the book he stole from the woman. He's weighing on a guilty conscience, regretting what he's done, because he knows it's illegal. : : Owning books is illegal because they think reading is a way to control you.There are some people that still ________________________________________________________________ own books, but the minute they're found out, the books have to be burned. Sometimes, they have to burn ________________________________________________________________ the house as well. Montag's wife, Mildred attempted suicide, and he comes to realize how apathetic the world ________________________________________________________________ is. ________________________________________________________________ When Clarisse disappears, Montag is visibly upset. Of course, he just watched a woman light herself on fire, ________________________________________________________________ so that upsets him further. He feels guilty for taking the book from the woman's house. Montag ________________________________________________________________ doesn't show up to work, and Captain Beatty comes over to explain to him why they burn books, and how ________________________________________________________________ much that affects society. ________________________________________________________________ ...
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