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During Reading

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flame.gif (21280 bytes)As stated on the main page of this section, you will keep a daily reading log.   It will also include answers to the following questions about the novel:

Part I:   The Hearth and the Salamander

  1. How does Montag feel about his job at the beginning of the novel?

  2. What is so different about Clarisse?  Immediately after meeting her, how does Montag feel?

  3. Compare and contrast Clarisse and Mildred.  Consider their attitudes, how they approach life, what they expect from themselves and other people,  and how they react to their world.

  4. Why does the Hound growl at Montag?  Does this foreshadow something?  Explain your answer.

  5. Would you like to live in Montag's society?  Why?

  6. Describe the history Bradbury creates for firemen.  Why do you suppose he does this?

  7. The fire in the old woman's house is a crisis for Montag.  A case can be made for considering this the climax in the plot.  What changes are made at this point?

  8. Beatty takes great pains to give reasons for burning books.  What points could you make to his arguments?

Part II:   The Sieve and the Sand

  1. What has happened to Clarisse?

  2. Explain who Professor Faber is and why Montag visits him.

  3. What are Faber's reasons for the fear this society has for books?

  4. Montag gets Faber to help him.   What is their plan?

  5. Montag reads a poem to Mildred and her friends.  What is their reaction to this reading?

Part III:   Burning Bright

  1. When he returns to work, what is ironic about the first call he answers?

  2. Montag attacks Beatty.   Would you consider this as murder?  Why?

  3. How does Montag escape from the city and where does he end up?

  4. If you were the "dust jacket for a book," which book(s) would you choose to remember?

  5. When Bradbury first titled the book, he called it The Fire Man.  The current title, Fahrenheit 451, is the temperature at which paper burns.  Which title do you think is better?   Give your reasons.

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