1. Fahrenheit 451 Section 3
Burning Bright

2. 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?”
_______________

3. 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

4. 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 = ______________

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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 - ______________________

8. 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

9. 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)

10. 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”

11. 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.

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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