Quotes from Fahrenheit 451 (part 2 and 3) – Flashcards
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"We cannot tell the precise moment when a friendship is formed..." (page 71)
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Montage quotes a book in his head
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"She was the first person in many years I've really liked. She was the first person I can remember who looked straight at me as if I counted" (page 72)
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Montag describing Clarisse
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"Books arn't people. You read and I look around, but there isn't anybody!" (page73)
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Millie to Montage while reading
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"I don't talk things, sir. I talk the the meaning of things. I sit here and know I'm alive" (page 75)
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Faber
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"Who's more important? Me or the bible?" (page 76)
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Millie
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"Delicately, like the petals of a flower. Light the first page,light the second page. Each becomes black butterfly. Beautiful eh?" (page 76)
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Beatty
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"My wife's dying. a friend of mine has died. Someone who may have been a friend was burnt less then 24 hours ago. You're the only one I knew might help me" (page 81)
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Montag
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"Lord how they've changed it in our parlors these days. Christ is one of the family now." (page 81)
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Faber
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Faber compares Christ to what?
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a regular peppermint stick
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"Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because there yelling at me... I just want someone to hear what I have to say" (page 82)
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Montag
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" We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Somethings missing." (page 82)
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Montag
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"The magic is only in what books say" (page 83)
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Faber
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Information in books could also be where according to Faber?
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parlor families, records, radios, television
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"Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we might forget" (page 83) What other places were they stored?
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Faber -old phonograph records -old motion pictures -old friends -in nature
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"To me it means texture.The book has pores. It has features. The book can go under the microscope"(page 83)
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Faber
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What 3 thing does Faber sat is missing from society?
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1.) quality of information 2.) time for deep thinking 3.) do something w/ the info gained from the first two
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"So now do you see why books are hated and feared?They show pores in the face of life." (page 83)
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Faber
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"The televisor is real. It is immediate, it has dimension.It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right." (page 84)
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Faber
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"That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want" (page 84)
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Montag
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"To see the firehouses burn across the land, destroyed as hotbeds of treason. The salamander devours his tail" (page86)
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Faber
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Faber compares the families to ....
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rats
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"Those who don't build must burn" (page 88)
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Faber
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What does the small green object faber has do and look like?
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.22 bullet walkie talkie
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How did faber get money for electronics?
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Stock market
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What does Faber compare himself too when sitting in the house when Montag goes out?
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Queen bee, safe in the hive
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What was the bank like?
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had robot tellers, open all night
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When Millies friends rush in,what does Montage think of?
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Mt. Vesuvius erupting
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What are Millie's friends names?
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Mrs. Phelps and Mrs.Bowels
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Mrs. Phelps husband...
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Pete
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"No use going through all that agony for a baby. The world must reproduce, you know, the race must go on." (page 96)
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Mrs. Bowels
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"Children are ruinous"
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Mrs. Phelps
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The women like President Noble because
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he's good looking
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Who started crying after Montag read the poem?
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Mrs. Phelphs (Clara)
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"Silly words silly words silly words. Why do people want to hurt people? Not enough hurt in the world." (page100)
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Mrs. Bowles
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"If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn" (page 104)
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Faber
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"The crisis is past and all is well, the sheep returns to the fold. We're all sheep who have strayed at times."
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Beatty
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"Words are like leaves and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
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Beatty
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"Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blowup the world,chopoff heads...."
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Beatty
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Why was the last call that Montage got special?
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Beatty was driving and they went to his house
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"You werent fooled by that idots routine were you? Flowers, Butterfiles... Its all in her file! Ill be damned. Ive hit a bulls eye. Look at the sick look on your face"
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Beatty
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"Other die, I go on...By the time consequences catch up with you its too late"
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Beatty
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"What is fire? A mystery... Scienctists don't really know. Its a real beauty thatdesroys consequences and responsibities"
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Beatty
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What does Montag burn his house with?
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Flame thrower
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"Fire was best for everything!"
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Montag
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The books in the flame were compared to what?
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danced like roasted birds
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How does Montag describe the parlors?
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great idiot monsters lay asleep with there white thoughts and snowy dreams
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"Give a man a few lines of a verse and he's the Lord of creation"
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Beatty
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Beatty's dead body is compared to what?
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a charred wax doll
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"Don't face a problem, burn it."
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Beatty
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The road Montag was trying to cross was compared to...
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boatless river; danger to cross a bowling alley
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How fast was the beetle going that almost hit Montag?
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130mph
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"It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know I'm drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive?"
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Montag
