20 Questions

1. The Hearth and the Salamander” seems an odd choice for a chapter title. Why do you suppose Bradbury chooses it? What connections is he creating? (hint: in mythology, the salamander is a fire lizard, said to be capable of starting and putting out fires)The chapter is connecting it to his life and his work to the title. Because he connected it to the character. 
2. The lines, “It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed” (1) tell the reader a great deal about the protagonist, Guy Montag. What assumptions can the reader make? He is not happy with his life and he just wants destruction. But he feels better when he work.
3. Bradbury’s use of metaphor and animal imagery begins on page one of the novel. He writes, “With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head...” (1). Why would he have chosen to characterize a fire hose as a “great python?” Is the imagery positive or negative? Its negative because Montag use the python to show how melancholy his life is.
4. Also on the first page, we learn that Montag’s fire-helmet is inscribed with the number 451. What is the symbolic importance of this number? What it means is that the books get burn at 451 f temperature.
5. Explain how Clarisse McClellan is first described. What is it about her that immediately strikes Montag?  She is always happy and finds the way to be happy no matter what and Montag is always faking his smile.
6. The names “Clarisse” and “Guy” are significant. How? The significant of the guy is that he puts books in fire and he knows it's aganist the law and the significant of clarisse likes to read books. 
7. Clarisse questions Montag about his way of life. How does she question him, and how does he react to 
   her questions? He start laughing and he laughtes because he doesn't like his life and he doesn't want to show that his life is a  depression or sad.
8. During the first conversation between Clarisse and Montag the reader discovers several odd things about the society in which these two characters live. Describe at least three odd things we learn. The house are sad. Their is no light in the houses. The houses are speaded. 
9. Montag employs two similes in thinking of Clarisse. What comparisons does he make and why? He compares her like a very thin face the digital  of a small clock right at ur face telling you the hour and mins and seconds. She will be calm for a moment  but the she will be s trouble maker 
10. What does Montag realize about himself after Clarisse leaves him the first time? He realize that he like his work then to be home with his wife that their it is always depression.
11. What are “Seashells” and how does Montag’s wife, Mildred/Millie, use them?  TV hey are earphones that can put them in the ear. 
12. There is a stark difference between Bradbury’s first description of Clarisse and his first description of 
    Mildred. What does the reference to her face (11) signify and how does it contribute to our 
    understanding of both her character and the marriage between Montag and Mildred? They put clarisse first because she put him to think about his life and how his wife was a sad life and nothing was going good expect his job.
13. Describe the machine used on Mildred. Explain the symbolism. She needs a stomach pump to save her life.
14. Montag’s comment that “Nobody knows anyone” (14) is telling. What is the epiphany he has? He feels bad and now he confused about his relationship  with his wife and that now he doesn't know what going on.
15. Unthinkingly, Montage finds himself drawn to the window of the McClellan household. Explain the 
    contrast between his house and this one. What does the contrast tell the reader about society at large? Clarisse  house has light but it is always on because they talk and are happy with each other but montage house is sad, depression simple and dark.
16. Montag’s confused statement, “‘I don’t know anything anymore’” (15) signifies a pivotal moment in the 
    text. Explain. He feels like he is in stress and sad but their a lot that is going through his mind that he said that "I don't know anything anymore".
17. When Mildred wakes up from her near-death experience, she does not seem to remember what 
    happened. Describe her mood at this point. Why has Bradbury characterized her this way? What does 
    Millie’s conversation with Montag reveal about her? She is sad and doesn't want to live and they characterize her like that because she has been alseep for a while 
18. Why does Clarisse visit the psychspeared. Because she goes out in the night to read books and see the sunsets and she is scared of her peers.
19. What is “the Hound” and what is its function? Why is Montag bothered by the Hound? Hound is a technology to adapted to become harmful instead of beneficia. Montag is bother because that was an innocent  woman dying.

1. Why does the woman want to stay-- and burn, and die--with her books, rather than surrender to the fireman and leave the books and her home to burn? She wanted to die with her book because her voice opposition to practice the book of burning.