Here are your questions for the final third of the book that you have chosen. Your responses to each question should be three to four sentences, minimum, and should include a quote from the book wherever possible to justify your response. Your responses should be posted as comments on this post prior to the class of the due date on which they are assigned; you may also submit responses in handwritten or typed form.
Assuming that you do not have an excused absence before then, the final set of notebook questions will be due the Wednesday directly before Spring Break.
Good Luck!
Mr. Parsons
READING QUESTIONS
Part III: BURNING BRIGHT
1. How has Beatty given Montag hints that he is under suspicion?
2. Who must have brought the books back from the garden?
3. Who turned in an alarm against Montag? Why?
4. What happened to Montag’s green bullet?
5. Why did Montag burn Beatty's body?
6. What is Montag’s plan to escape?
7. How much money did Montag give Faber?
8. How many scents can the mechanical hound remember?
9. Why did Montag want Faber to turn on the air conditioning and sprinklers?
10. Interpret “Twenty million Montag's running, soon, if the cameras caught him.”
11. Why did the search for Montag veer inland?
12. Who died in Montag’s place?
13. What did Granger mean by “Welcome back from the dead.”
14. When Granger and other like minded people are stopped by authorities, why isn’t any incriminating evidence found?
15. What does Granger mean by his quote “You’re not important. You’re not anything.”?
16. Explain the last implications of the events in the last 4-5 pages.
POST-READING QUESTIONS
1. Write a 150-word response in which you consider your final thoughts on the novel. Include your analysis of the ending - those reading the posts should have read the ending themselves and come to their own conclusions.
2. Write a 100-word response comparing the novel to 1984, discussing their similarities and differences.
5 comments:
1. How has Beatty given Montag hints that he is under suspicion??
How has Beatty Given Montag hint that he is under suspicion because Beatty had sent the Mechanical Hound around Montag’s house because he wanted Montag to know that he was suspicious of him. “Well, said Beatty, “now you did it. Old Montag wanted to fly near the sun and now that he’s burnt his damn wings, he wonders why. Didn’t I hint enough when I sent the Hound around your place?” Said Beatty.
2. Who must have brought the books back from the garden?
Mildred brought the books back from the garden. She had watched Montag hide them there and she brought them back in. “Mildred, of course. She must have watched him hide the books in the garden and brought them back in. Mildred. Mildred.” Thought Montag.
3. Who turned in an alarm against Montag? Why??
First Mildred friends turned in the alarm bur Beatty disregarded it. Then Mildred sent an alarm as well and Beatty didn’t no ignore this one. “Was is my wife turned in the alarm?”? Beatty nodded “But her friends turned in an alarm earlier that I let ride. One way or another, you’d have got it.” Said Beatty.
4. What happened to Montag’s green bullet?
Montag’s green bullet fell out of his ear when Beatty struck him a blow on the head. Beatty picked up the green bullet and listen to Faber then he switched it off.. “Well---so there’s more here than I thought. I saw you tilt your head, listening. First I thought you had a seashell. But when you turned clever later, I wondered. We’ll trace this and drop it on your friend.” Said Beatty.
5. Why did Montag burn Beatty's body??
Montag burned Beatty’s body because Beatty’s had threatened Montag and insulting him and he couldn’t take it anymore. “Well, that’s one way to get an audience. Hold a gun on a man and force him to listen to your speech. Speech away. What’ll It be this time? Why don’t you belch Shakespeare at me, you fumbling snob? “There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, for I am arm’d so strong in honesty that they pass me as an idle, wind, which I respect not! How’s that? Go ahead now, you second-hand litterateur, pull the trigger.” Said Beatty.
6. What is Montag’s plan to escape?
Montag’s planned to escape to anywhere because he doesn’t know where he is going. Montag will make it to the open country and live on or near the rivers and the hills.
7. How much money did Montag give Faber??
Montag gave Faber one hundred dollars. He wants Faber to keep the money because Montag think it’ll help once he is gone. “ I want this to stay with you. Use it any way that’ll help when I’m gone.” Said Montag
8. How many scents can the mechanical hound remember??
The mechanical hound can remember up to then thousand odors and also can identify ten thousand men. “---nose so sensitive the Mechanical Hound can remember and identify ten thousand odor indexes on ten thousand men without resetting.” Said Montag.?
9. Why did Montag want Faber to turn on the air conditioning and sprinklers?
Montag wanted Faber to turn the air conditioning and sprinklers on so that the Mechanical Hound could not track his scent. Montag does not wish Faber to be discovered and have to burn himself.
10. Interpret “Twenty million Montag's running, soon, if the cameras caught him.”
“Twenty million Montag’s running, soon, if the cameras caught him.” This statement means that if Montag was to be seen by the cameras he would be running around like a chicken with his head cut off.
11. Why did the search for Montag veer inland?
The search for Montag veered inland because the people in the Elm Terrace open all their doors and look out their windows on the count of ten. He jumped into the river when he reached it “ The fugitive cannot escape if everyone in the next minute looks from his house. Ready!”
12. Who died in Montag’s place??
A innocent man dies in Montag’s place. The police lost him along the river and decided to pick a random person so that they could keep their audience. “They’re faking. You threw them off at the river. They cant admit it. They know they can hold their audience only so long.” Said Granger.
13. What did Granger mean by “Welcome back from the dead.”??
Granger meant that some innocent man died in Montag’s place because the police identified him as Montag and killed him. “The search is over, Montag is dead; a crime against society has been avenged.” Said the announcer.
14. When Granger and other like minded people are stopped by authorities, why isn’t any incriminating evidence found???
When Granger and the other like minded people were stopped by the authorities and didn’t find any incriminating evidence because Granger and the others have photographic memories. They read a book, memorize it then burn it for no future evidence. “All of us have photographic memories, but spend a lifetime learning how to block off the things that are really in there.” Said Granger.
15. What does Granger mean by his quote “You’re not important. You’re not anything.”???
Granger meant that you’re not important, you’re not anything until you can or may help someone with the knowledge their carrying. “ And hold onto one thought: You’re not important. You’re not anything. Someday the load we’re carrying with us may help someone.” Said Granger.
16. Explain the last implications of the events in the last 4-5 pages.
The implications of the last 4-5 pages was that the city was blown up by a bomb and it was all ash. Granger and Montag set out toward the city because Granger believes that they would need their help.
1. Write a 150-word response in which you consider your final thoughts on the novel. Include your analysis of the ending - those reading the posts should have read the ending themselves and come to their own conclusions.
My final thoughts on Fahrenheit 451 was that it was very well written. Kept my attention throughout the entire novel especially when they had Montag burn his own house because Mildred called the alarm in. The book never got boring a little confusing at times but that wasn’t often.
The characters was very unique and worked well with the plot of the story. You didn’t know which characters would end of being the protagonist and the antagonist, until the first few pages started.
The events that had occurred in Fahrenheit 451 was unbelievable especially the ending about the city, I thought it was going to end with Montag going back and burning books but I was definitely not expecting Montag and Granger setting off for the city but it did. I like all the event throughout the book. Ray Bradbury has definitely made this a very magnificent book for anybody to read.
2. Write a 100-word response comparing the novel to 1984, discussing their similarities and differences.
Fahrenheit 451 was very much like 1984 because they both were being ruled by society and the government without a say in the matter. In both novels if you disobeyed the rules you would get severely punished or worse. They were very similar because they both have the same government and society, being watched. There also very different because the endings are different. Montag does not go back as being a fireman and abiding by the rules however unlike Montag, Winston does indeed go back and abides by the rules and regulations of their government after O‘Brien tortures him. Both books were great books and well written.
Questions 3
1. How has Beatty given Montag hints that he is under suspicion?
When Beatty said, “Didn’t I hint enough when I sent the Hound around your place?” He was telling Montag that the hound was a warning.
2. Who must have brought the books back from the garden?
This quote says it all, “Mildred, of course. She must have watched him hide the books in the garden and brought them back in. Mildred. Mildred.”
3. Who turned in an alarm against Montag? Why?
Mildred’s friends and Mildred. Her friends did it because they were read poetry and freaked out, Beatty said, in the middle of one of his mini-speeches, “It was pretty silly, quoting poetry around freely and easy like that.”
4. What happened to Montag’s green bullet?
Beatty knocked it out of Montag’s ear.
“Beatty stuck him a blow on the head that sent him reeling back. The green bullet in which Faber’s voice whispered and cried fell to the sidewalk.”
5. Why did Montag burn Beatty's body?
Similar to the happening’s in the novel “A Separate Peace” It was either a fit of rage or just something that came over him.
“Thinking back later could he could never decide whether the hands or Beatty’s reaction to the hands gave him the final push toward murder.”
6. What is Montag’s plan to escape?
To get to Faber’s house as a pit stop before moving on. “Faber’s would be the place where he might refuel his fast draining belief in his own ability to survive.” Then he would go to open country “Perhaps he could make the open country and live on or near the rivers and near the highways, in the fields and hills.”
7. How much money did Montag give Faber?
$100 “Montag drew out a hundred dollars. ‘I want this to stay with use, use it in any way that’ll help when I’m gone.’ ”
8. How many scents can the mechanical hound remember?
A LOT “-nose so sensitive the Mechanical Hound can remember and identify ten thousand odor indexes on ten thousand men without resetting!”
9. Why did Montag want Faber to turn on the air conditioning and sprinklers?
To help cover up his sent, “Turn the air-conditioning on full in all the rooms and spray with moth spray if you have it. Then turn on your lawn sprinklers as high as they’ll go and hose off the sidewalks. With any luck at all, we can kill the trail in here, anyway.”
10. Interpret “Twenty million Montag's running, soon, if the cameras caught him.”
This is in reference to the Twenty million TV screens that should have Montag on them, for that many people would be watching the chase.
11. Why did the search for Montag veer inland?
Montag’s sent was lost at the river when Montag jumped in, “He tossed his own clothing into the river and watched it swept away. Then, holding the suitcase, he walked out in the river until there was no bottom and he was swept away in the dark.”
12. Who died in Montag’s place?
Some poor random guy… “The innocent man stood bewildered, a cigarette burning in his hand. He stared at the Hound, not knowing what it was.”
(RIP Poor random guy!)
13. What did Granger mean by “Welcome back from the dead.”
He meant that Montag was no longer in danger of dying form the Hound. He escaped certain death, so certain that it was faked, he’s dead to the public but not actually dead. So it was like the saying “Dead man walking”, Montag was like that, but he lived, so now his back from the dead.
14. When Granger and other like minded people are stopped by authorities, why isn’t any incriminating evidence found?
Because they have the books memorized. “All of us have photographic memories, but spend a lifetime learning how to block off things that aren’t really in there.” So they have nothing on their person.
15. What does Granger mean by his quote “You’re not important. You’re not anything.”?
The people themselves are not important, the books they have in their heads are what’s important.
16. Explain the last implications of the events in the last 4-5 pages.
The city went “PERRRKRROOOSHHH!!!!!!” As it was destroyed by bombers. The men and Guy Montag recovered and ate some bacon. Then it was a new beginning, the city was dead and now it was time to rebuild, but this time build a much better place.
1. Write a 150-word response in which you consider your final thoughts on the novel. Include your analysis of the ending - those reading the posts should have read the ending themselves and come to their own conclusions.
This novel ended good (for once, “Caesar”, the dude gets assassinated, “Separate Peace”, dude never really gets over the past, ”1984”, don’t even get me started!) It was entertaining, more of a thriller as opposed to being a thoughtful kind of novel. It was thoughtful but it did have its crazy moments, (flame-thrower and Beatty cough cough). Over all it was, sort-of-a-feel-good-novel-but-not-really. The bad parts, such as where montage gets caught was never really that bad and didn’t last too long.
As for the ending, it was…different. It had a good feel to such a bad thing, (people were probably buried alive in that rubble!). Despite how many people died, it meant for a better future. Reborn from the ashes just like a phoenix, the city will be rebuilt.
2. Write a 100-word response comparing the novel to 1984, discussing their similarities and differences.
Fahrenheit is a puppy, a very cute puppy. 1984 is a dog so large it can’t fit in those ominous caves giant dragons love so much. Fahrenheit-451 was NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THE NASTY OF 1984!!!!! No sex, no insane tortures, people like Clarisse could actually happen and not get sent into oblivion! Montag would have found Faber to see that he was a part of the thought police, and not some one who would ever care to help him for real. The only similarities are that people’s thoughts were controlled (to some extent) and that there was a totalitarian rule. Other then that Fahrenheit-451 is a cute puppy compared to the monster that is 1984.
Fahrenheit 451- 3rd Round Questions
1. Q-How has Beatty given Montag hints that he is under suspicion?
A-He sent the hound to sniff at Montag’s door, he gave Montag the lecture about the history of the firemen, and even came back to check on him later.
2. Q-Who must have brought the books back from the garden?
A-Montag’s wife, Mildred, must have brought the books back.
3. Q-Who turned in an alarm against Montag? Why?
A-Mildred turned in the alarm against Montag. He was strange, and threatening her way of life. She believed that the books were useless, and it was the right thing to do by turning in her husband.
4. Q-What happened to Montag’s green bullet?
A-Beatty found it, and took it out of his ear. It was burned when Montag torched Beatty.
5. Q-Why did Montag burn Beatty’s body?
A-Montag burned him because he was angry with him, and because Beatty had the green bullet and was going to trace it back to Faber. Montag wanted to protect Faber so he got rid of the bullet and Beatty.
6. Q-What is Montag’s plan to escape?
A-To escape, Montag will give Faber some of the money he has, try to confuse his scent before the hound comes to Faber’s house, and then Montag will fun for the river. The river will carry him down stream, where he hopes to meet other intellectuals who are on the run.
7. Q-How much money did Montag give Faber?
A-Montag gave Faber one hundred dollars.
8. Q- How many scents can the mechanical hound memorize?
A-The hound can memorize ten thousand scents.
9. Q-Why did Montag want Faber to turn on the sprinklers and air conditioning?
A-Montag wanted Faber to turn them on so that the scent would be gone when the hound came. The hound wouldn’t bother Faber, and Montag would be able to get to the river safely.
10. Q-Interpret “Twenty thousand Montag’s running, soon, if the cameras caught him”.
A-What he means is that until the police catches him, anyone the cameras see could be Montag. Anyone at any given time could see “him”, but it could be someone else.
11. Q-Why did the search for Montag veer inland/
A-The search veered inland because the hound lost his scent at the river, and they didn’t want the public to know that they had lost him.
12. Q-Who died in Montag’s place?
A-A man chosen at random so that the people would think that the government had caught Montag, when in reality, they had lost the trail.
13. Q-What did Granger mean by “Welcome back from the dead”?
A-When Granger told Montag “Welcome back from the dead’ he was referring to the fact that Montag had “died” on screen and that the public believed him dead, but he was still alive, sitting in front of Granger.
14. Q-When Granger and other like-minded people are stopped by authorities, why isn’t any incriminating evidence found?
A-No evidence is found because there is none. The men have memorized their books and then burned them to avoid detection.
15. Q-What does Granger mean by his quote “You are not important. You are not anything.”
A-Granger means that to the government, he is nothing. They don’t care about the individual, only their image and the flock.
16. Q-Explain the implications of the events in the last 4-5 pages.
A-An atomic bomb is dropped to end the short-lived war. The bomb kills everyone, and is very devastating, but it also creates a clean slate, which is needed if the world is to be brought back into culture.
Post Reading Questions
1. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a frightening warning to our technology-based society. He is showing us what could happen if we continue to rely more and more on technology. In the novel, the written word of any kind is not only prohibited by the government, it is also ignored by the public. The public has brainwashed themselves into believing that they only need television and technology to be happy. Books have literally fallen out of style, and in order to keep the flock happy, the government created the firefighters and the burning of books.
People such as Granger and Montag and Clarisse are considered strange and dangerous because of their love of books. They wish to bring back culture and the intellectual, but cannot because of the growing flock of technology based people. Montag in particular, want to proactively change society, and I think that his time comes to do this at the end of the novel.
An atomic bomb is dropped at the close of the novel, killing everyone within city limits. Montag and the others see this not only as a tragedy, but also as the catlyst they need to start their intellectual revolution. With the clean slate that the bomb created, people like Montag and Granger can come together, and rebuild their society.
2. Bay Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and George Orwell’s 1984 have many similarities, but also many differences. Both novels are done in the style of Dystopian Fiction, but the societies in each are very different. 1984 paints a picture of a desolate, dying future, brought on by a totalitarian government, while Fahrenheit 451 is a story of a knowledge-less society brought on by the public and growing technological influence. Though this is the main similarities differences, many less insignifigant ones exist.
For example, the main characters in both books are lured from the side e of the government by different ways of thinking by women who think differently and are considered dangerous. However, the woman who seduced Winston became his lover, while Clarisse merely showed Montag that other ways other thinking existed. Although there are many similarities between the books, they are essentially different, because of the warning they give. Fahrenheit 451 warns against becoming too dependent on technology, while 1984 warns against a controlling government.
Aaron Hieneman
Mr.Parsons
5th period
4-6-09
1.)How has Beatty given Montag hints that he is under suspicion?
When Beatty appeared at Montags with the mechanical hound and came in and talked to Montag about books and told him that a firemen can only have a book for 24 hours.
2.)Who must have brought the books back from the garden?
The person who Montags believes has taken the books the books back from the garden is Mildred. Montag discovered that books where going missing from the original spot of hiding and so he moved them and then they appeared back in the hiding spot.
3.)Who turned in an alarm against Montag? Why?
Beatty was the one who turned the alarm on Montag because he knew that Montag had taken books from houses that they went to burn. Beatty gives Montag many hints to tell him that he knows that he has the books.
4.)What happened to Montag’s green bullet?
Beatty took it out of Montag's ear as he was burning his own house down and asked what he was listening to or who it was on the other end.
5.)Why did Montag burn Beatty's body?
Beatty took the Green Bullet from Montags ear and was trying to figure out who was on the other end and Montag had to stop him or Faber was going to be found out and everything was going to be ruined.
6.)What is Montag’s plan to escape?
To make his way to the country side and follow the railroad tracks until he ran into a camp that Faber told him about that was full of professors and teachers that could help him escape.
7.) How much money did Montag give Faber?
He gives Faber a couple hundreded dollars.
8.) How many scents can the mechanical hound remember?
The Mechanical hound can track the scent of just about any human in the book or animal and so there are vast amounts of scents that the hound can follow and track.
9.)Why did Montag want Faber to turn on the air conditioning and sprinklers?
Montags turn so that the hound would be thrown off and would not be able to follow Montags scent back to Fabers house and get him in trouble for helping Montag and it would probly get him killed.
10.) Interpret “Twenty million Montag's running, soon, if the cameras caught him.”
The man on t.v. tells the men and weomen that on the count of 10 look outside of there windows and doors to see if they can see Montag and that way they could easly fund him.
11.)Why did the search for Montag veer inland?
Because the professor Granger gave Montag a fluid that changed his scent with that of another man that was completely random and so the mechanical hound was lead inland to a differnet person.
12.)Who died in Montag’s place?
A man who was walking down the street by himself and was having no clue what was happening all that he seen was the mechanical hound coming toward him and the firemen reported that Guy Montag was dead.
13.)What did Granger mean by “Welcome back from the dead.”
Granger says this after firemen tell everyone that Guy is dead and ironically he actually alive so the fake Montag is dead and the real one is still alive.
14.)When Granger and other like minded people are stopped by authorities, why isn’t any incriminating evidence found?
Because the men never read any books and they never did anything wrong. The men simply would recall anything that they once read word by word and they had a network of people who all knew differnet books but never read the books or had them.
15.)What does Granger mean by his quote “You’re not important. You’re not anything.”?
That the men including Montag in themselevs but the knowledge that they know and so they are nt important to the world but they are important to them selves.
16.)Explain the last implications of the events in the last 4-5 pages.
The last pages to me are really ironic because the men and weomen who were violent people and never were smart enough to work things out were killed and the men and weomen who actually cared where the only ones who survived. Then Granger really gives a cool quote and saying that man kind is like a phoniex and that from the ashes of the bomb that was dropped they shall rise again and start with a new beginning.
1. The ending of the book is pretty interesting as so the rest of the book. Montag eventually changed his ways of being a fireman who burned books to one interested in them. The book is from the genre of dystopia I the English literature. It which it was written in a future like setting. Just like 1984 by Orwell. It is different in the novel with the firemen because instead of letting oit fires they causes them when burning books. In the conclusion of the novel though Montag is at a campfire with the rest of the escapees and was all reading the books. Then memorizing them and throwing them in the fire so they would not be destroyed by the firemen. I think it is interesting of how they would burn them themselves so the firemen wouldn’t get a hold of them. Also there was a lot of fire imagery at the end, certainly at the campfire. The men though did love books so that is why they memorized them. However it’s hard to think of a world without books.
2.The book was like 1984 in many ways. One was their genre was the same. It was a Utopia word called dystopia. Second reason they are compared by the way they both focus their books on the society or community. As in the book of 1984 they talk of a society controlled by Big Brother. While, Fahrenheit 451 has a different, but still controlling, society. Also is that they are both set in a futuristic society created for years from now of what might happen. Also, they both focus on books. That in 1984 it was against the rules to keep a diary. As in Fahrenheit 451, people are not allowed to own books. The firefighters in this book sets fire to books that people own. However in both books the main character goes against the rules and keeps a book anyways. While each of these books are in the same genre, they are both different in the way both writers have different views and thoughts. These are a few of the ways in which both of these books compare and contrast in each other.
1.Beatty has given Montag hints that he was under suspicion by sending the hound to his house. The mechanical hound from before. The one who wanted to attack Montag.
2.Mildred must have brought the books back from the garden. She is the obvious person.
3.Mildred, Mrs. Bowles, and Mrs. Phelps turned in an alarm against Montag. When he was reading poetry.
4.When Montag is pushed by Beatty the bullet flies out.
5.Beatty was wanting to imprison him anyway. He wanted escape.
6.In the first part he really did not have a plan. However when he goes to Faber’s house he ends up going to the river and covered himself in alcohol to remove his scent.
7.He gave him a hundred and fifty dollars.
8.The mechanical hound can remember 10,000 scents.
9.That was for the mechanical hound to loose track of their scent.
10.It means that if the cameras caught him then he would be on television and would be seen by twenty million people.
11.The government can never be wrong. So they had to find someone, even if it wasn’t Montag, to pretend is him inland.
12.Someone who was walking at night. He didn’t even have any relation to Montag.
13.He meant that Montag was killed on television. However it actually was not him because someone else went in his place and he was still alive.
14.That is because they used a strategy that when they got a book they memorize. Then they will remember the book and then through it into the fire so the firemen wouldn’t get a hold of them and they wouldn’t get into trouble..
15. That Montag was nothing to the government. That he will just be another regular person.
16.The last few pages in the book talk about the phoenix and how the city symbolizes the phoenix’s regeneration. The people are destroyed by a bomb and they can rebuild again but they should learn from there mistakes and not repeat them, but their ignorance will make them repeat it.
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