English Honors 9
January 8, 2008
Part 1
1. The firemen are the fire starters. They burn the
houses that they think have books in them.
2. They're compared to birds because of their
fluttering pages.
3. Montag thinks that his job is a pleasure.
4. Montag meets with a girl Clarisse McClellan.
5. This symbolically, means that you never really wash
off being a fireman. You never really get
over it.
6. I think that Bradbury would introduce her first,
because she would be an important and maybe more than
just a friend.
7. MIldred needs help because she overdosed pills.
8. The help she receives is from two non-
MD's pumping
her stomach with a machine that moves like a snake
with an eye, and another to transfer the blood.
9. It is unusual about the way the two men go about
helping Mildred. It is unusual because they act as if
it's nothing special, and nothing new to them.
10. Montag's house compared to Clarisse's house is
dull, dark, and silent. Clarisse's house is fun,
bright, and loud.
11. Mildred reacts after she wakes up to not
remembering anything, and being very hungry.
12. Mildred just sits in the parlor all day.
13. Montag's TV room is a 3rd walled room of screens.
14. What she's doing, is tasting the rain when Montag
spots her.
15. Clarisse is different because she asks questions,
and is interesting.
16. The mechanical hound is a robot dog, and it is to
kill pests such as cats, mice, and chickens.
17. The hound's reaction is an attack on Montag.
18. The society she considers that, is school.
19. At the next fire, Montag takes a book.
20. Beatty reveals that he's full of bits and pieces
of books.
21. The technologies Mildred uses are the seashells.
22. Mildred's family is the parlor 3rd wall acting
family.
23. Clarisse died in a car accident. A car hit her.
24. What is unusual is that she didn't care and forgot
to tell him.
25. The three things, are out of the nursery into
college and back to the nursery, taking up minorities,
and the mind thinking less and less.
Part 2
26. The last liberal arts college was shut down half a
century ago.
27. True
28. Faber's fear dissipated because Montag swore to
him, and he was holding a book.
29. Montag wanted Faber to help him understand the
book's words.
30. True
31. When montag started ripping pages out of the
bible, Faber considered helping him.
32. False, because it perfectly scored the queen bee
being perfectly safe in the hive.
33. The items that were exchanged were a bible and an
ear pice.
34. The volcano's mouth is the parlor.
35. False, because he pulled the switch on the parlor
wall.
36. False, because he encouraged him to do is as a
joke.
37. Mrs. Phelps was affected by the original intent of
the poetry, and she cried.
38. False, because Faber commented on how Montag was a
silly fool, then consoled him later.
39. It had the effect of Montag getting nervous.
40. A call to burn a house interrupted the game.
41. Captain Beatty drove the Salamander to Montag's
house.
Part 3
42. Beatty gave Montag his hints by sending the
hounds.
43. Mildred must have brought the books back from the
garden.
44. Mildred, Mrs. Phelps, and Mrs. Bowles turned in an
alarm against Montag.
45. Montag's green bullet was taken by Captain Beatty.
46. Montag burned Beatty's body, because Beatty was
taunting him and he had the earpiece.
47. Montag's plan of escape is to go and see Faber.
48. Montag gave Faber one hundred dollars.
49. The mechanical can remember ten thousand scents.
50. Montag wanted Faber to turn on the air
conditioning and sprinklers so that it would get rid
of Montag's scent.
51. The twenty million Montag's running quote means
that he's on twenty million parlor TVs.
52. The search for Montag veered inland, because they
didn't want the search to get boring on the river.
53. Some odd, random guy died in Montag's place.
54. Granger meant that Montag "died" on TV, so he
welcomed him back.
55. No incriminating evidence was found, because they
had all the info in books in their heads.
56. I have a sense that there are other book chapters
.. The proof I have, is because Granger spoke of many
people having book chapters.
57. Granger means that Montag was only a knowledge
carrier, and that he wasn't important.
58. The last implications, were that the town was
gone, mildred was dead, they were alive, and they had
books in their heads.
