21-30 Question
- Describe the types of activities that are practiced by the young people of the society. What do these activities reveal about the culture? The technology becaus the books they leave because they don't use them.
- What happens to the people the firemen visit as they perform their work? They see that firefighters are putting the fire and burning book instead of putting out fire and the people don't even care.
- The firemen’s book, the brief histories of the Firemen of America is filled with ironies. What is ironic
about this text? The ironic is that firefighters are putting fire and their supposed to do the opposite. - As the reader accompanies Montag to his first fire scene, he/she meets an old woman who lights her
books and her house on fire. Just prior to this act, she says, “‘“Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out”’”(33). Explain Bradbury’s allusion. What is the woman’s intention in burning her own home? She mean that she wants to be with her books .So if she dies she wants to be by her books. - In this same scene, Bradbury builds a simile in which he compares books to birds. What is the effect of the comparison? That books are something that's beautiful and are everywhere.
- What crime does Montag commit during this episode? Why does he do it? He is reading books.
- What does the reader learn about the fire captain, Beatty, on the ride back to the fire station? That their something odd about Montag.
- Following the death of the old woman, Montag returns home and realizes that Millie “was so strange he
couldn’t believe he knew her at all” (39). He then wonders how she came to be so empty (41). Why does
he feel this way? The women dies because she loved her books and millie just died because she didn't see their was something to live for and she didn't have something that she loved. - Describe the function of the parlor walls. What are the implications if most citizens in F451 possess
these parlors? - There are two interesting things about Millie’s announcement of Clarisse McClellan’s death. One is her
choice of words when telling Montag, and the other is her description of the manner of death. Explain
why these two elements are significant. They meant something to millie because she knows that Montagwas friends with clarisse. - Describe Millie’s reaction to Montag’s story about the death of the old woman. What does Millie’s
reaction and Montag’s frustration with it indicate about each character? She didn't even care.
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