1. The ABCs of Fahrenheit 451
By. Jason Nagel

2. is for
Alarm
Mildred and her friends called in the alarm on Montag after he read the poem to them.

3. is for
Beatty
Beatty is the fire chief that Montag later sets on fire.

4. is for
Clarisse
Clarisse is the girl that Montag meets at night. Clarisse is the girl that makes Montag start thinking about the meaning of books.

5. is for
“Dover Beach”
“Dover Beach” is the name of the poem that Montag reads to the women that gets him in a lot of trouble.

6. is for
Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes is a book from the bible that Montag memorizes and tells Granger.

7. is for
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature in which books burn. 451 is one of three symbols of the firemen.

8. is for
Guy Montag
Guy Montag is the protagonist who burned books but later was chased for saving books.

9. is for
Hound
The hound is robot dog that chases people down and injects them with poison.

10. is for
Igniter
The igniter is the device in which the firemen used to start the fires. Montag had an igniter with the salamander engraved on it.

11. is for
Jonathan Swift
Granger wanted to introduce Montag to Jonathan Swift, the author of the evil political book called Guilliver’s Travels.

12. is for
Kerosene
Kerosene is the flammable fluid that Montag used to start the fires and he always smelled of it.

13. Leisure to digest the information
is for
Leisure to digest the information
The leisure to digest the information is the second quality that books need to be important.

14. is for
Mildred
Mildred, Montag’s wife, tells Beatty about the books he was hiding. In the end Mildred leaves Montag and goes to the city.

15. is for
Noble
Noble is the president that won the election because of his looks. The women voted for him because he looked better than the other person running for the election.

16. is for
Old man Faber
Faber is the ex-English professor that helps Montag. He gave Montag an ear piece so the two of them can communicate when he went and saw Beatty.

17. is for
Portable TV
The portable TV is the device Montag used to watch the chase when he was with Granger and the others.

18. Quality of information
is for
Quality of information
The quality of information is the first of the three qualities that books need to be important.

19. Right to carry out actions
is for
Right to carry out actions
The right to carry out actions is the third of the three qualities that books need to be important.

20. is for
Salamander
The salamander is one of the symbols of the firemen. The salamander is to be able to live in fire.

21. is for
Thousands
The thousands of houses and books that Montag burned before he found out the meaning of books.

22. is for
U.C.L.A
Granger wanted Montag to meet Dr. Simmons from U.C.L.A. He is a specialist in Ortega y Gasset.

23. is for
V-2 rocket films
Granger’s grandfather showed him some V-2 rocket films of an atom-bomb mushroom two hundred miles up.

24. is for
White Clown
The White Clown is a TV show that Mildred and her friends watched on her TV walls.

25. is for
Ex-fireman
Montag became an ex-fireman when he went from burning books to saving books in the end.

26. Y couldn’t the people just read the books?
is for
Y couldn’t the people just read the books?
If the people would have read the books in the beginning, the firemen would never have had to burn them.

27. is for
Zipper
“The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn.”

28. The End of the Fahrenheit 451 ABCs