Fahrenheit 451 Section 3 Burning Bright

Who turned Montag in? Mrs. Bowles & Mrs. Phelps turned them in – Beatty ignores those complaints Millie – ___________________ – worried about TV more than Montag “Poor family, …everything gone now” Beatty - torn between duty as fireman/his conscience ? Beatty wanted Montag to be a good fireman Could have finished him off Beatty appears HUMAN “Didn’t I hint enough when I sent the hound around your place?” _______________

Beatty & Montag Beatty wants Montag to torch his own house confesses to sending the Mechanical hound Beatty seems to feel regret but also enjoys tormenting him Beatty doesn’t realize Montag ___________ burning his house – ________________ of a life he hated

The Legend of ______________ Beatty compares Montag to ____________ (more proof that he is well-read _____________________ allusion A young man who wanted to fly - made wax wings that worked - flew too close to the sun - melted & he died Beatty taunts Montag with this idea - going down wrong path will get him “BURNED” Enlightment, too much knowledge = ______________

Montag talks with Faber Faber tells Montag to leave through the ear radio Beatty discovers the ___________ & threatens to go after ____________ Montag: “We never _______________ right” - firemen burn out of habit, should have been aware of what they were burning Beatty rants, Montag stalls him -”Go ahead – spit Shakespeare at me” - B

Montag Kills ______________ Montag ___________________ to Beatty, killing him Did Beatty WANT to be killed? HE WAS EDUCATED - he didn’t fight back, stood there – defenseless “Go ahead now, you second hand litterateur, pull the trigger.” Wants Montag to do it, or mocking him ? - Too cowardly to carry out any plan against firemen - Knew he was responsible for society “Don’t fix a problem – burn it” -people avoid problems rather than try to solve them

Montag gets away Montag is injured by the ________________ Needle – ___________ is numb Difficult to run Hears war is going on while on the way to Faber’s house Sobs b/c he realizes Beatty wanted to die Crosses a busy street to get to Faber’s house Violence / speeding cars Tip of middle finger Carries out the plan – ____________________________ Mrs. Black – Montag follows through w/ plan – phoned alarm Color symbolism - ______________________

Visit with Faber Gets to Faber’s house safely Faber tells him of a place down the river Montag covers self in whiskey to kill the scent (protect from hound) Faber’s suitcase w/ clothes Faber cleans house to rid of Montag’s scent “The ______________ must go on, even with the war beginning within the hour” The televised hunt for Montag ______________________ of society; illusion vs reality

Journey Down the River Montag gets to river, splashes with whiskey and gets rid of his old clothes to lose the hound Follows railroad tracks to find a group of men around a fire At peace in river; __________________ Finally able to think (133) _______________________________to warm, soothing and pure –once was destructive & dangerous Once, long ago, Clarisse had walked here, where he was walking now.” Railroad tracks (literal) – path of enlightenment (symbolic)

Meeting Granger __________________ is the leader of the group The group memorized ________________ Gave Montag a _______________ to change his body chemistry watched on a small TV an innocent man get killed by the hound –protect society Needed an ending for the “show”

Granger His grandfather taught him Everyone must leave _____________________ when he/she dies (149) Philosophy on life – we are just a tiny part of this planet. Don’t get caught up in your own ___________________________. (163) Mankind’s presence on this planet is ________. We’ll do this all repeatedly go through another Dark Age and have to rebuild and flourish all over again.

Human Books Montag couldn’t remember what he read Montag would become the backup Book of __________________________ (Bible) They were all in hiding, hoping to come back one day and influence everyone to read & think again

War A _____________ strikes the city. Everything is destroyed Millie is dead (159) Montag imagines she sees her true self (reality) before her death (mirror) _______________ got away? They started walking down the river to return to the city “And all the ______________ they might need to look around…” Hope for the future

Hope __________________ city reborn from the ashes “…someday we’ll quit making the funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them.” _____________________ Mildred’s imagined death Granger – force people to look at themselves and reality

Hope ________________________ Montag has been trying for at least fifty pages to remember some passage of the Bible When his world is destroyed, the ____________ come back to him Something is destroyed, but something is created at the same time cycles