Fahrenheit 451 part one – Flashcards
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Burn books
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What do firemen do for a living
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He loves his job, burning books brings him happiness
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What does montag think in the begining of the book about his job
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Clarisse
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Who does Montag meet on his way home from work
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What he has done will stay with him
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What does Montag mean by "you can never wash it off completely"
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One can predict that Clarisse will affect the story more than Mildred.
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Why does Bradbury introduce Mildred after Clarisse
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Overdosed on pills. Common of their society for people to do that, unspecified if it is suicide or accident
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What has Mildred done when Montag gets home
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Montag- dull dead house that sucks the life out of it Clarisse- full of energy light and hope
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How is Montag's house different than Clarisse's
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She denies that it happened
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How does Mildred react when she wakes up from her previous nights experience
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She cleans all day
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What does Mildred do all of the next day
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Mildred- dull, brainwashed, middle aged, oblivious, stereotypical, greedy, "fake", dead weight to Montag Clarisse- "Ray himself", free spirit, rebellious, hopeful, observant, seventeen, slender, beautiful, violet eyes, full of life, questions society, makes Montag question everything
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How do Clarisse and Mildred Differ
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The hound tracks its prey by being programmed to track any living thing by its chemical, they found people who violated the law
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What is the mechanical hound and what is its purpose
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He growls which is weird because he is usually calm
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What is the hounds reaction to Montag
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They're society considers anti-social to be someone who doesn't blatantly follow society and doesn't ask questions, and that is clearly not Clarisse
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Why does society consider Clarisse "anti-social"
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A book
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At the next fire what does Montag take
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He reveals he is educated and has read thousands of books, he says he can quote popular literature on command, he went through the same thing Montag is going through
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On page forty, Beatty reveals a truth about himself and his knowledge, what is it
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The people on her tv shows
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Who is Mildred's "family"
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Mildred says that Clarisse is "gone" and she says it's been taken care of. Which is curious. She also mentions that she got hit by a car and that her family moved away after that, but she is very unclear with her words.
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What happens to Clarisse and how does it happen
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1. The world cares more about sports than arts because the arts promote individually 2. People are afraid of what is different because people that are different can take over society and renew it to what it was 3. Censorship is not an issue to every day "social" people, but it is something that'll ways has and will be.
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In Beatty's speech to Montag, what three truths does he reveal
