# data[].attributes.body
THINGS LEFT FOR ME TO FIND

-literary devices

-figurative language

-character traits

-themes

-evidence/textual support for ideas/claims

# data[].attributes.body
THINGS THAT MAY CAUSE ME TO WONDER IF I'M RIGHT

-connections

-questions

-significance

-foreshadows/predictions

-syntax

-understandings/realizations

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 35: "Kerosene! They pumped the cold fluid from the numeraled 451 tanks strapped to their shoulders."

I think kerosene is a motif in the book because it is repeated constantly. It also relates to another motif in the book, fire as it is related to the burning of the books.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 26: "Let's talk about something else. Have you smelled old leaves? Don't they smell like cinnamon? Here. Smell."

"Here" and "Smell" are both described as one-word sentences. These emphasize the main point of the paragraph.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 32:

"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."

The rules help the reader in understanding the concept of the firemen and their jobs. Putting them in a numbered list is helpful when they are emphasized.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 34: "She made the room roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust of guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about."

This is personification because she describes the room as roaring with accusation. This helps the reader understand the meaning of the sentence when using non-human like objects.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 34: "They fell like slaughtered birds and the woman stood below, like a small girl, among the bodies."

There are 2 similes in this sentence, "like slaughtered birds" and "like a small girl". These 2 similes allow the reader to understand connections using "like" in better understand the connection Bradbury is trying to explain.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 35: "Kerosene!"

Kerosene is used constantly throughout the book so far. I think this can be used as a motif or symbol because of how much it is used in the book. Kerosene is a big part in the book because it plays a part in the starting of the fires. Fire is the main idea in the book.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 37: "Master Ridley, said Montag a last."

Who is Master Ridley? This person is mentioned a few times on this page but I don't quite understand the meaning of this person and why it is significant.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 40:

'"The first time we ever met, where was it, and when?"

"Why, it was at-"

She stopped.

"I don't know" she said.'

Mildred doesn't even remember where she first met Montag. This shows that Mildred and Montag are starting to drift away from each other.

# data[].attributes.body
All of page 41.

I have noticed throughout the book that Montag has these episodes where is goes crazy. He seems to talk fast and lose his mind and think he is going crazy. The episodes started after he met Clarisse and realized she might be right about the world.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 42: "When it was all over he felt like a man who had been thrown from a cliff, whirled in a centrifuge and spat out over a waterfall..."

The simile "like a man who had been thrown off a cliff" is used in this sentence to allow the reader to understand the connection Bradbury is making.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 44: "I haven't seen her for a few days-four days to be exact. Have you seen her?"

One thing that I realized is that Montag continues to think about Clarisse and he knows the exact days he hasn't seen her. This shows he has been thinking about their conversation and is starting to really believe her thoughts about the world.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 47:

"You must!"

"Don't shout!"

"I wasn't shouting."

These few sentences are Mildred and Montag fighting with each other. I am starting to realize they have been starting to fight more and more. I think this is another sign that they are falling out of love.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 53:

"Let me fix your pillow," said Mildred.

"No!" whispered Montag.

At first, I was confused on why he was not allowing Mildred to fix his pillow but then I remembered he was hiding a book behind the pillow. He doesn't want Mildred to see the book or feel it because she would most likely say something and get him in trouble.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 55: "Technology, mass exploration, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God."

Most of pages 50-60 is Beatty trying to convince Montag that his ideas about the world being a bad place are wrong. He continues to explain to Montag that technology is a good thing and burning books is the firemen's only job.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 57: "Fire is bright and fire is clean."

Fire is the main motif used in Fahrenheit 451 because the main idea in the book is burning books. Fire is the only thing that is able to burn the books for them so it is constantly brought up in the book as a reminder as to what the firemen do.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 57: "The family had been feeding her subconscious, I'm sure, from what I saw of her school record."

Why did the firemen look at Clarisse's school records? I just don't understand why they would look at her school records. She didn't do anything wrong, I know that she is weird but they didn't have any reason to do that.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 61: "A special spot-wavex-scrambler also caused his televised image, in the area immediately about his lips, to mouth the vowels and consonants beautifully."

What is a spot-wavex-scrambler?

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 62: "Did you hear Beatty? Did you listen to him? He knows all the answers. He's right."

Mildred talks about Beatty to Montag as if she has to obey his orders and do everything he says. She treats Beatty better compared to her own husband.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 68: "Silence. The cold rain falling. And the smell of blue electricity blowing under the locked door. Let's get back to work. said Montag quietly."

What are they working on? I know that Montag and Mildred have been looking at books but what is he referring to as "work"?

# data[].attributes.body
Most of page 71.

Montag looks back on a past interaction he had with a professor at the park. Bradbury used this backstory because Montag will then call the professor and talk to him. This story brings an idea to Montag's head that he will use to his advantage later.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 80: "It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason."

Bradbury uses these italicized words to express them more and make the reader recognize them. Italicizing a word is used to make the words "bigger" and more noticeable.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 81: "Not if you start talking the sort of talk that might get me burnt for my trouble. The only way I could possibly listen to you would be if somehow the firemen structure itself could be burnt."

Faber is worried about getting in trouble and getting some of his stuff burnt. He is passionate about the bible and books but he has not yet expressed that he is willing to take that risk with Montag.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 85: "We might start a few books, and wait on the war to break the pattern and give us the push we need."

What are they fighting for in the war? I know the war has been mentioned a few times in the book but I am curious as to what they are fighting for.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg 91: "The three women fidgeted and looked nervously at the empty mud-colored walls."

Why are they stuttering so much?

The women in Montag's house (Mrs. Phelps, etc.) are very nervous and I was wondering why they are so nervous.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg. 92: "I've had two children by Caesaren section."

What is a Caesaren section?

Mrs. Bowles says that she has had a Caesaren section. I am not familiar with that term for having children.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg. 95: "And if we listen nice, Mr. Montag will be happy and then maybe we can go on and do something else."

Mrs. Bowles is open up to listening to the poem that Montag wants to read. I found this interesting because most people would be too scared to listen to a book or even look at one.

# data[].attributes.body
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..."

Kerosene is a motif that shows up constantly throughout the book and here it is referring to the hound sleeping with kerosene.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg. 101: "Who are little wise, the best fool be."

Beatty talks to Montag and uses this allusion along with others to convince Montag to not read books. This allusion means that the best fools are the ones that have little wisdom.

# data[].attributes.body
All of page 102 and 103, Beatty continues to talk to Montag and he uses allusions. This shows that Beatty has read books before and he knows some famous quotes from other books.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg. 104: "And at the very end of my dream, along I came with the Salamander and said, "Going my way?"

The Salamander is another motif commonly used in the book. The Salamander represents the firemen and it is on their uniforms.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg. 106: "Beatty never drove, but he was driving tonight, slamming the Salamanders around corners..."

This is another part in the book where the Salamander is mentioned again. Where now it is described as the firetruck.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg. 106: "Something the matter, Montag? Why, said Montag slowly, we've stopped in front of my house."

Beatty is planning to make Montag burn his own house and the books in it. This is Beatty's way of torturing Montag because he has talked about books nonstop.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg. 109: "I want you to do this job by your lonesome, Montag."

Beatty indeed does end up making Montag burn his own house. Not with kerosene but with a flame thrower.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg. 111: "The emptiness made an even emptier whistle, a senseless scream."

I think this is a paradox because it uses the term "senseless scream" which isn't normal because you normally scream for a reason. I think this is a great example of a paradox.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg. 114: "The blowing of a single autumn leaf. He turned and the Mechanical Hound was there."

The autumn leaves are related to the hound. It is sort of the sign that the hound will come, when the leaves blow.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg. 116: "His flesh gripped him and shrank as if it had been plunged in acid."

This simile is describing Montag after he has killed Beatty by emotion. He can't believe what he has done and now has to live with it the rest of his life.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg. 117: "filling his hand with slivers from the board fence, the prickling was like someone blowing a spray of scalding water on that leg."

Montag got injured from the hound and now has a paralyzed leg and this simile is describing his pain in that leg.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg. 118-119: "The police helicopters were rising so far away that it seemed someone had blown the gray head of a dry dandelion flower."

This metaphor describes the helicopters as they were flying further and further away from the city.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg. 125: "and there's Millie gone, I thought she was my wife, but now I don't know."

There is a clear message in here where Montag doesn't know his current relationship with his wife and isn't too worried about her.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg. 129: "A suitcase, get it, fill it with your dirtiest clothes, an odd suit, and the dirtier the better, a shirt, some old sneakers and socks."

Why does Montag want Faber's old clothes? You would think that Montag would want nice clothes to last him awhile.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg. 130: "He could feel the Hound, like autumn, come cold and dry and swift, like a wind that didn't stir grass..."

This is another connection from the hound and autumn. In this sentence, the hound is described as "cold and dry" and he could feel its presence.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg. 133: "Then he dressed in Faber's old clothes and shoes. He tossed his own clothing into the river and watched it swept away."

Montag wanted the dirty clothes because he was going into the river. He didn't want to use his own clothes because they were newer clothes and didn't want to ruin them.

# data[].attributes.body
All of page 144 and some of 145, Granger and his gang explain how they remember books and can recall characters.

Why do they remember books? They remember all of the characters and books that they have read but why?

# data[].attributes.body
Pg. 145: "All we want to do is keep our knowledge we think we will need, intact and safe."

They remember books because the people want to remember knowledge that they think they will need in life.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg. 148: "Even if she dies, I realized a moment ago, I don't think I'll feel sad."

Montag continues to show that his love for Mildred is becoming slim to none. This quote is very clear that Montag does not love her anymore, at this point in the book.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg. 151: Montag saw the flirt of a great metal fist over the far city and he knew the scream of the jets that would follow..."

The personification in this quote is "the scream of the jets". Which connects a scream to an object.

# data[].attributes.body
Pg. 153: "Part of that book, part of it, quick now, quick before it gets away, before the shock wears off, before the wind dies."

The syntax is describing Montag's thoughts and how everything is starting to come back to him. He is beginning to remember everything, the part of the book.