Fahrenheit 451 Final Exam Graded A+
According to the Rule Book, what did the original firemen do? - ANSWER-burns book
Analysis Characters - ANSWER-Guy Montag
Appropriately named after a paper-manufacturing company, Montag is the protagonist
of Fahrenheit 451. He is by no means a perfect hero, however. The reader can
sympathize with Montag's mission, but the steps he takes toward his goal often seem
clumsy and misguided. Montag's faith in his profession and his society begins to decline
almost immediately after the novel's opening passage. Faced with the enormity and
complexity of books for the first time, he is often confused, frustrated, and overwhelmed.
As a result, he has difficulty deciding what to do independently of Beatty, Mildred, or
Faber. Likewise, he is often rash, inarticulate, self-obsessed, and too easily swayed. At
times he is not even aware of why he does things, feeling that his hands are acting by
themselves. These subconscious actions can be quite horrific, such as when he finds
himself setting his supervisor on fire, but they also represent his deepest desires to
rebel against the status quo and find a meaningful way to live. In his desperate quest to
define and comprehend his own life and purpose by means of books, he blunders
blindly and stupidly as often as he thinks and acts lucidly. His attempts to reclaim his
own humanity range from the compassionate and sensitive, as in his conversations with
Clarisse, to the grotesque and irresponsible, as in his murder of Beatty and his half-
baked scheme to overthrow the firemen.
Mildred Montag
Mildred is the one major character in the book who seems to have no hope of resolving
the conflicts within herself. Her suicide attempt suggests that she is in great pain and
that her obsession with television is a means to avoid confronting her life. But her true
feelings are buried very deep within her. She even appears to be unaware of her own
suicide attempt. She is a frightening character, because the read
Beatty has a long conversation with Montag about the history of firemen. Explain the
history of how books came to be burned, according to Beatty: - ANSWER-First, the
population grew, and then people didn't seem to have enough time, so tags began to
condense and get shorter. Then, nobody wanted to offend anyone by the books, so they
were burned.
Character List - ANSWER-Guy Montag - A third-generation fireman who suddenly
realizes the emptiness of his life and starts to search for meaning in the books he is
supposed to be burning. Though he is sometimes rash and has a hard time thinking for
himself, he is determined to break free from the oppression of ignorance. He quickly
forms unusually strong attachments with anyone who seems receptive to true
friendship. His biggest regret in life is not having a better relationship with his wife.
Mildred Montag - Montag's brittle, sickly looking wife. She is obsessed with watching
television and refuses to engage in frank conversation with her husband about their
marriage or her feelings. Her suicide attempt, which she refuses even to acknowledge,
clearly indicates that she harbors a great deal of pain. Small-minded and childish,
, Mildred does not understand her husband and apparently has no desire to do so.
Captain Beatty - The captain of Montag's fire department. Although he is himself
extremely well-read, paradoxically he hates books and people who insist on reading
them. He is cunning and devious, and so perceptive that he appears to read Montag's
thoughts.Professor Faber - A retired English professor whom Montag encountered a
year before the book opens. Faber still possesses a few precious books and aches to
have more. He readily admits that the current state of society is due to the cowardice of
people like himself, who would not speak out against book burning when they still could
have stopped it. He berates himself for being a coward, but he shows himself capable of
acts that require great courage and place him in considerable danger.
Read an in-depth analysis of Professor Faber.
Clarisse McClellan - A beautiful seventeen-year-old who introduces Montag to the
world's potential for beauty and meaning with her gentle innocence and curiosity
Clarisse and her family seem to be really different. Write 2 examples of thins that they
do that are very surprising to Montag. - ANSWER-Montag was surprised that Clarisse
and her family that all the lights in her house were on and her father, mother, and uncle
were just sitting around talking, which meant that they were up late at night.
Clarisse tells us about a lot of "normal" things in her society. Give 2 examples of things
that are normal in Clarisse and Montag' s society that are very different from our current
way of life. After Clarisse asks him this, he realizes that he is NOT happy. Why does it
bother him? What does he realize? - ANSWER-On page 10, Clarisse aks Montag if he
is happy. Montag realizes that he is NOT happy because he is not sure if he is happy or
not, realizing that he masking his happiness.
content - ANSWER-Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, on August 22, 1920.
By the time he was eleven, he had already begun writing his own stories on butcher
paper. His family moved fairly frequently, and he graduated from a Los Angeles high
school in 1938. He had no further formal education, but he studied on his own at the
library and continued to write. For several years, he earned money by selling
newspapers on street corners. His first published story was "Hollerbochen's Dilemma,"
which appeared in 1938 in Imagination!, a magazine for amateur writers. In 1942 he
was published in Weird Tales, the legendary pulp science-fiction magazine that fostered
such luminaries of the genre as H. P. Lovecraft. Bradbury honed his sci-fi sensibility
writing for popular television shows, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The
Twilight Zone. He also ventured into screenplay writing (he wrote the screenplay for
John Huston's 1953 film Moby Dick). His book The Martian Chronicles, published in
1950, established his reputation as a leading American writer of science fictionIn the
spring of 1950, while living with his family in a humble home in Venice, California,
Bradbury began writing what was to become Fahrenheit 451 on pay-by-the-hour
typewriters in the University of California at Los Angeles library basement. He finished
the first draft, a shorter version called The Fireman, in just nine days. Following in the
futuristic-dustpan tradition of George Orwell's 1984, Fahrenheit 451 was published in
1953 and became Bradbury's most popular and widely read work of fiction. He
produced a stage version of the novel at the Studio Theatre Playhouse in Los Angeles.
According to the Rule Book, what did the original firemen do? - ANSWER-burns book
Analysis Characters - ANSWER-Guy Montag
Appropriately named after a paper-manufacturing company, Montag is the protagonist
of Fahrenheit 451. He is by no means a perfect hero, however. The reader can
sympathize with Montag's mission, but the steps he takes toward his goal often seem
clumsy and misguided. Montag's faith in his profession and his society begins to decline
almost immediately after the novel's opening passage. Faced with the enormity and
complexity of books for the first time, he is often confused, frustrated, and overwhelmed.
As a result, he has difficulty deciding what to do independently of Beatty, Mildred, or
Faber. Likewise, he is often rash, inarticulate, self-obsessed, and too easily swayed. At
times he is not even aware of why he does things, feeling that his hands are acting by
themselves. These subconscious actions can be quite horrific, such as when he finds
himself setting his supervisor on fire, but they also represent his deepest desires to
rebel against the status quo and find a meaningful way to live. In his desperate quest to
define and comprehend his own life and purpose by means of books, he blunders
blindly and stupidly as often as he thinks and acts lucidly. His attempts to reclaim his
own humanity range from the compassionate and sensitive, as in his conversations with
Clarisse, to the grotesque and irresponsible, as in his murder of Beatty and his half-
baked scheme to overthrow the firemen.
Mildred Montag
Mildred is the one major character in the book who seems to have no hope of resolving
the conflicts within herself. Her suicide attempt suggests that she is in great pain and
that her obsession with television is a means to avoid confronting her life. But her true
feelings are buried very deep within her. She even appears to be unaware of her own
suicide attempt. She is a frightening character, because the read
Beatty has a long conversation with Montag about the history of firemen. Explain the
history of how books came to be burned, according to Beatty: - ANSWER-First, the
population grew, and then people didn't seem to have enough time, so tags began to
condense and get shorter. Then, nobody wanted to offend anyone by the books, so they
were burned.
Character List - ANSWER-Guy Montag - A third-generation fireman who suddenly
realizes the emptiness of his life and starts to search for meaning in the books he is
supposed to be burning. Though he is sometimes rash and has a hard time thinking for
himself, he is determined to break free from the oppression of ignorance. He quickly
forms unusually strong attachments with anyone who seems receptive to true
friendship. His biggest regret in life is not having a better relationship with his wife.
Mildred Montag - Montag's brittle, sickly looking wife. She is obsessed with watching
television and refuses to engage in frank conversation with her husband about their
marriage or her feelings. Her suicide attempt, which she refuses even to acknowledge,
clearly indicates that she harbors a great deal of pain. Small-minded and childish,
, Mildred does not understand her husband and apparently has no desire to do so.
Captain Beatty - The captain of Montag's fire department. Although he is himself
extremely well-read, paradoxically he hates books and people who insist on reading
them. He is cunning and devious, and so perceptive that he appears to read Montag's
thoughts.Professor Faber - A retired English professor whom Montag encountered a
year before the book opens. Faber still possesses a few precious books and aches to
have more. He readily admits that the current state of society is due to the cowardice of
people like himself, who would not speak out against book burning when they still could
have stopped it. He berates himself for being a coward, but he shows himself capable of
acts that require great courage and place him in considerable danger.
Read an in-depth analysis of Professor Faber.
Clarisse McClellan - A beautiful seventeen-year-old who introduces Montag to the
world's potential for beauty and meaning with her gentle innocence and curiosity
Clarisse and her family seem to be really different. Write 2 examples of thins that they
do that are very surprising to Montag. - ANSWER-Montag was surprised that Clarisse
and her family that all the lights in her house were on and her father, mother, and uncle
were just sitting around talking, which meant that they were up late at night.
Clarisse tells us about a lot of "normal" things in her society. Give 2 examples of things
that are normal in Clarisse and Montag' s society that are very different from our current
way of life. After Clarisse asks him this, he realizes that he is NOT happy. Why does it
bother him? What does he realize? - ANSWER-On page 10, Clarisse aks Montag if he
is happy. Montag realizes that he is NOT happy because he is not sure if he is happy or
not, realizing that he masking his happiness.
content - ANSWER-Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, on August 22, 1920.
By the time he was eleven, he had already begun writing his own stories on butcher
paper. His family moved fairly frequently, and he graduated from a Los Angeles high
school in 1938. He had no further formal education, but he studied on his own at the
library and continued to write. For several years, he earned money by selling
newspapers on street corners. His first published story was "Hollerbochen's Dilemma,"
which appeared in 1938 in Imagination!, a magazine for amateur writers. In 1942 he
was published in Weird Tales, the legendary pulp science-fiction magazine that fostered
such luminaries of the genre as H. P. Lovecraft. Bradbury honed his sci-fi sensibility
writing for popular television shows, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The
Twilight Zone. He also ventured into screenplay writing (he wrote the screenplay for
John Huston's 1953 film Moby Dick). His book The Martian Chronicles, published in
1950, established his reputation as a leading American writer of science fictionIn the
spring of 1950, while living with his family in a humble home in Venice, California,
Bradbury began writing what was to become Fahrenheit 451 on pay-by-the-hour
typewriters in the University of California at Los Angeles library basement. He finished
the first draft, a shorter version called The Fireman, in just nine days. Following in the
futuristic-dustpan tradition of George Orwell's 1984, Fahrenheit 451 was published in
1953 and became Bradbury's most popular and widely read work of fiction. He
produced a stage version of the novel at the Studio Theatre Playhouse in Los Angeles.
