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THINGS LEFT FOR ME TO FIND

-literary devices

-figurative language

-character traits

-themes

-evidence/textual support for ideas/claims

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THINGS THAT MAY CAUSE ME TO WONDER IF I'M RIGHT

-connections

-questions

-significance

-foreshadows/predictions

-syntax

-understandings/realizations

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Pg 1: "With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world."

Describing the hose as a snake spitting venom

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RULE 1. Answer the alarm quickly.

2. Start the fire swiftly.

3. Burn everything.

4. Report back to firehouse immediately.

5. Stand alert for other Alarms.

Pg 32: This is a list from one of the firemen's rule books at the firehouse.

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Pg 32: I notice on the numbered list that "Alarms" in the fifth rule is capitalized but "alarm" in rule one is not capitalized.

It could just be a typo,or it could mean something deeper, but I am not sure.

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Pg 34: "A book lit, almost obediently, like a white pigeon, in his hands, wings fluttering."

The book's pages are being described as the wings of a white pigeon.

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Pg 35: "Kerosene!"

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Pg 42: "I'm so mad I could spit!" - Montag

This quote is said shortly after Montag had a conversation with Clarisse, and she did a "dandelion test" to see if he was in love, and it was false.

He was talking to Mildred about her "relatives," and he gets upset over Mildred not knowing their names and the "walls" always being on.

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Pg 44: "No. The same girl. McClellan. McClellan. Run over by a car. Four days ago. I'm not sure. But I think she's dead. The family moved out anyway. I don't know. But I think she's dead."

Why is Millie so unbothered by Clarisse's death?

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Pg 45: "It was like a faint drift of greenish luminescent smoke, the motion of a single huge October leaf blowing across the lawn and away."

This quote is a symbolization of the hound.

The "October leaf blowing" is a symbol of the hound.

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Pg 47: "We burned a thousand books. We burned a woman." - Montag

"Well?" - Millie

Again, why does Millie not care about people dying?

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Pg 48: "You're not sick." - Millie

Why does Millie say he isn't sick?

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Pg 56: "A book is a loaded gun in the house next door."

This metaphor compares a book and a gun ready to go off at any moment.

This comparison makes it seem like books are just as dangerous as guns.

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Pg 59: "At least once in his career every firemen gets an itch. What do the books say, he wonders. Oh, to scratch that itch, eh?"

Beatty bringing up books and firemen makes me believe that Beatty knows about Montag's books.

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Pg 65: "'It is computed, that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.'"

This is a quote from Gulliver's Travels.

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Pg 68: "'That favorite subject, Myself.'" - Montag

"I understand that one." - Millie

This quote shows how much Millie's mind can understand and comprehend.

Millie hadn't been able to understand any of the other books that Montag was reading to her, but when he read this title, she understood it because she believed it was about her."

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Pg 68: "But Clarisse's favorite subject wasn't herself. It was everyone else, and me. She was the first person in a good many years I've really liked. She was the first person I can remember who looked straight at me as if I counted." - Montag

This quote shows exactly what Montag thinks of Clarisse even after her death.

It also shows how much he cared about her and how big of an impact she had on his life.

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Pg 82: "To see the firehouse burn across the land, destroyed as hotbeds of treason. The salamander devours his tail! Ho, God!"

Salamander

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Pg 85: "Only a week ago, pumping a kerosene hose, I thought: God, what fun!"

Kersosene

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Pg 89: "Doesn't everyone look nice!"

"Nice."

"You look fine, Millie!"

"Fine."

"Everyone looks swell."

"Swell!"

The repetitive responses from Millie's friends show their mental capacity and how undeveloped they are because of technology.

It also shows that Millie is a little smarter than her friends because she answers with more complex sentences.

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Pg 89: Millie could be smarter than her friends because Montag has been reading to her.

She could also be smarter because Montag talks with her almost daily while her friend's husbands aren't around often.

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Pg 90: "Millie, did you see that?"

"I saw it, I saw it!"

The shows that Millie and her friends watch don't give them time to think or process what is happening.

They don't talk about what happens in the shows because they can't process it.

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Pg 90-91: "In again out again Finnegan, the Army called Pete yesterday. He'll be back next week. The Amry said so. Quick war. Forty-eight hours they said, and everyone home. That's what the Army said. Quick war. Pete was called yesterday and they said he'd be back next week. Quick...." - Mrs. Phelps

This quote again shows Millie's friend's attention span and ability to form a sentence.

Her repeating her same thought multiple times shows that's how the shows she watches are - simple and repetitive.

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Pg 91: "It's always someone else's husband dies, they say." - One of Millie's friends

It shows Millie and her friends are out of touch, especially when it involves the war.

This again shows how little people in this society are affected by death.

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Pg 93: "No wonder the landslide was for Winston Noble. Even their names helped. Compare Winston Noble to Hubert Hoag for ten seconds and you can almost figure the results." - One of Millie's friends

This shows how little Millie and her friends pay attention to politics.

This also shows how little politics is probably shown on the TVs to leave voters uneducated.

They also probably chose two very different candidates (one of which they wanted to win) and made him seem better for even the most random reasons.

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Pg 94: "As for poetry, I hate it." - Mrs. Bowles

Mrs. Bowles most likely has never read poetry or any book.

She says she hates it because that is what she has been taught, not what she has learned from reading poetry on her own.

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Pg 94: "Why don't you just read one of those poems from your little book." -- "I think that'd be very interesting." - Mrs. Phelps

Why is Mrs. Phelps so calm about Montag having a book?

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Pg 98: "Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out, go home and think of the dozen abortions you've had, go home and think of that and your damn Caesarean sections, too, and your children who hate your guts! Go home and think how it all happened and what did you ever do to stop it? Go home, go home!" - Montag

This was when I realized Montag had started going "crazy."

I also realized how crazy everyone's lives are in this society - Mrs. Bowles' three husbands, two of which died.

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Pg 100: "My feet." -- "I can't move them. I feel so damn silly. My feet won't move!" - Montag

Can Montag actually not move his feet, or is it all in his head?

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Pg 101: "The Mechanical Hound was gone. Its kennel was empty and the firehouse stood all about in plaster silence."

Where is the Hound?

Is the Hound waiting somewhere for Montag?

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Pg 101: "Its kennel was empty and the firehouse stood all about in plaster silence and the orange Salamander slept with its kerosene in its belly and the fire throwers crossed upon its flanks and Montag came in through the silence and touched the brass pole and slid up in the dark air, looking back at the deserted kennel, his heart beating, pausing, beating."

Salamander

Kerosene

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Pg 102: "'We're all sheep who have strayed at times.'"

This is a quote from the Bible.

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Pg 102: "'Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.'"

This quote is from Alexander Pope in his An Essay on Criticism.

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Pg 102: "'A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again."

This is a quote from Alexander Pope in his An Essay on Criticism.

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Pg 103: "'The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."

This quote is from The Merchant of Venice.

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Pg 103: "'The folly of mistaking a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself as an oracle, is inborn is us."

This quote is from Paul Valery.

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Pg 104: "And at the very end of my dream, along I came with the Salamander and said, 'Going my way?'"

Salamander

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Pg 106: "Beatty never drove, but he was driving tonight, slamming the Salamander around corners, leaning forward high on the driver's throne, his massive black slicker flapping out behind so that he seemed a great black bat flying above the engine, over the brass numbers, taking the full wind."

Salamander

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Pg 106: "The Salamander boomed to a halt, throwing men off in slips and clumsy hops."

Salamander

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Pg 106: "Why" -- "We've stopped in front of my house." - Montag

They're going to burn Montag's house down.

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Pg 108: "Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone, everything, everything gone now...." - Millie

Her reaction shows me that she is more upset about her house getting burned down and her losing all of her devices rather than her husband getting arrested.

It shows me that she genuinely is so lost in technology that she no longer cares about Montag.

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Pg 108: "This is happening to me." - Montag

Montag never thought his house would get burned.

One: because he never thought he would get caught.

Two: because he is a firemen

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Pg 109: "Now, Montag, you're a burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical." - Beatty

This made me realize that Beatty never cared about Montag, and when he visited him at his house, it was to send him hints.

It was almost like he was playing a game with him.

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Pg 109: "Not with kerosene and a match, but piecework, with a flame thrower. Your house, your clean-up."

Kerosene

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Pg 110: "The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers."

Comparing books pages with wings

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Pg 112: "We'll trace this and drop in on your friend." - Beatty

"No." - Montag

During this Beatty found out about the bullet that Faber was using to listen in on Montag's conversations.

This shows that Montag really cares about Faber because he doesn't want him to get hurt.

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Pg 113: "We never burned right...." - Montag

This quote makes me think that Montag is going to do something crazy.

Shortly after this quote, Montag burns Beatty and two other firemen.

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Pg 114: "The blowing of a single autumn leaf. He turned and the Mechanical Hound was there."

The blowing autumn leaf symbolizes the Hound.

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Pg 114: "The street empty, the house burnt like an ancient bit of stage scenery, the other homes dark, the Hound there, Beatty there, the three other firemen another place, and the Salamander...?"

Salamander

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Pg 116: "Beatty wanted to die."

Is Montag thinking this to make him feel better about killing Beatty?

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Pg 120: "The light from the overhead lamps seemed as bright and revealing as the midday sun and just as hot."

Comparing lamps to the sun.

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Pg 121: "The beetle was rushing. The beetle was roaring. The beetle raised its speed. The beetle was whining. The beetle was in high thunder. The beetle came skimming. The beetle came in a single whistling trajectory, fired from an invisible rifle."

Is the beetle a symbol of time, and how much time Montag has?

Are the sentences all written simply because Montag's brain is rushing?

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Pg 124: "Then he stood in the cold night air, waiting, and at a distance he heard the fire sirens start up and run, and the Salamanders coming, coming to burn Mr. Black's house while he was away at work, to make his wife stand shivering in the morning air while the roof lets go and dropped upon the fire, But now, she was still asleep."

Salamander

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Pg 124: "There's Beatty dead, and he was my friend once, and there's Millie gone, I thought she was my wife, but now I don't know. And the house all burnt. And my job gone and myself on the run, and I planted a book in a fireman's house on the way. Good Christ, the things I've done in a single week!" - Montag

Montag finally realizes what all has happened and what he has done and now he has to figure out where to go from here.

He also realizes how fake his relationships were, how Beatty didn't care about him—he just cared about burning—and how Millie only cared about the "family."

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Pg 126: "A new Mechanical Hound has been brought from another district--" - Voice on the TV

There are multiple Mechanical Hounds.

Are there Hounds all over the world?

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Pg 128: "What could he say in a single word, a few words, that would sear all their faces and wake them up?"

Montag still believes he can change the world and the current ways of life.

He thinks if he could just get a chance to talk to everyone on a widespread level he could change their thoughts.

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Pg 129: "Wait. There's no use you being discovered. When I leave, burn the spread of this bed that I touched. Burn the chair in the living room, in your wall incinerator. Wipe down the furniture with alcohol, wipe the doorknobs. Burn the throw-rug in the parlor. 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." - Montag

From this, I realized that Montag really cares for Faber, and he doesn't want him to get hurt by his decisions, even if Faber plays a part in them.

I also realize how smart Montag really is that he is able to come up with this plan so quickly on the spot.

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Pg 132: "He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors."

This compares Montag's feeling as if his life was one big show that everyone was acting in, especially now that he is on the run.

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Pg 135: "But there was only the normal autumn wind high up, going by like another river."

The Hound is symbolized by a "blowing autumn leaf."

This quote says, "only normal autumn wind," which shows that the Hound is not there.

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Pg 136: "He would lie back and look out the loft window, very late in the night and see the lights go out in the farmhouse itself, until a very young and beautiful woman would sit in an unlit window, braiding her hair."

Is this young woman Millie?

Is Montag recalling back to when he first met Millie?

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Pg 134: "The sun burned every day. It burned Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people away, without any help from him. So if he burned things with the firemen and the sun burned Time, that meant that everything burned!"

Burning symbolizes time running out.

When they burned Montag's house it was symbolizing that his time was running out.

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Pg 139: "It was not burning, it was warming."

Burning is bad, but warming is good.

Burning things down causes harm but using fire to warm people up is good.

Montag is no longer running out of time because for him the fire isn't burning its warming.

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Pg 139: "Even its smell was different."

Could this be because there was no kerosene in the fire?

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Pg 150: "Grandfather's been dead for all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint. He touched me." - Granger

This shows how generations carry things passed onto them from their loved ones.

This is a great example as to why Granger is who he is.

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Pg 151: "Montag held the bombs in the sky for a single moment, with his mind and his hands reaching helplessly up at them. 'Run!' he cried to Faber. To Clarisse, 'Run!' To Mildred, 'Get out, get out of there!"

Is the city being bombed?

I just realized what "And the war began and ended in that instant" meant.

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Pg 153: "The concussion knocked the air across and down the river, turned the men over like dominoes in a line, blew the water in lifting sprays, and blew the dust and made the trees above them mourn with a great wind passing away south."

Comparing the men falling over to dominoes in a line.

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Pg 153: "What is it? Yes, yes, part of Ecclesiastes. Part of Ecclesiates and Revelation. Part of that book, part of it, quick now, quick before it gets away, before the shock wears off, before the wind dies. Book of Ecclesiates."

I think this is a significant part of the book because it shows even after suffering small bomb effects, he is more worried about getting the part of this book that he remembers written down rather than his own life.

I think this shows great character development from the beginning of the book to now.

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Pg 155: "City looks like a heap of baking powder." - Granger

This is comparing the bombed destroyed aftermath of the city to baking powder.

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Pg 155: "Someone struck a match and touched it to a piece of dry paper taken from their pocket, and shoved this under a bit of grass and leaves, and after a while added tiny twigs which were wet and sputtered but finally caught, and the fire grew larger in the early morning as the sun came up and the men slowly turned from looking up river and were drawn to the fire, awkwardly, with nothing to say, and the sun colored the back of their necks as they bent down."

The sun is constantly burning, and burning symbolizes time.

The fire didn't catch until the sun came out and then both were burning.

Then, "the sun colored the back of their necks as they bent down."

Could this be a way of symbolizing that they are now running out of time even after the city was bombed?

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Pg 156: "Granger looked into the fire. 'Phoenix.'"

The phoenix is a symbol of fire.