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"He walked toward the corner, thinking little at all about nothing in particular." Pg.2

This shows Montag's thinking before meeting Clarisse. Montag really can't be thinking about nothing because if your thinking you have to be thinking of something. This almost makes me wonder if he can't think of anything to think about or he doesn't know of anything new to think about

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Pg 1: "His hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history."

--Comparing Montag's hands to those of a conductor basically means that Montag is creating something beautiful and harmonious by setting fires.

--This is the beginning of the hands motif.

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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. 21: "The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live..."

How do you sleep but not sleep or live but not really live?

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"If someone here in the firehouse knew about the ventilator..." Pg.24

I feel like this foreshadows that someone knows about the hidden books.

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"The animals were turned loose. Three seconds later the game was done, the rat, cat, or chicken caught half across the areaway."- Pg. 22

The fireman enjoy watching suffering and death as their entertainment and not only that but they also like to watch the weak and helpless die.

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"Montag heard the voices talking, talking, talking, giving, talking, weaving, reweaving their hypnotic webs." Pg.14

This sentence makes me think that Montag has so many things racing in his mind that he is hearing things and is trying to put thoughts together.

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"Are you happy?"- Clarisse

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"He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back." Pg. 9

This is after Clarries asks if Montag is happy which after being asked this he realizes he is not as shown in the quote above.

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The Mechanical Hounds are described as:

"great bees...sleeping the evil out of itself." Pg.22

"Hound leaping out like a moth...finding its victim...inserting its needle and going back to its kennel to die as if a switch has been turned." Pg. 23

Aren't the hounds supposed to make the firemen's job easier? Why does Montag not like them?

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Pg. 27: "It's a lot of Funles and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not."

I took this quote as he is trying so hard and trying to collect all of the sand yet he can't quite hold it all in.

What is the importance of this metaphor? Is it foreshadowing?

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Pg. 27: (Clarisse) "I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always used to be that way?"

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Does Clarisse's Uncle get burned? Pg. 28:

I'm not sure why I think this but "And at the museums, have you ever been? All abstract. That's all there is now. My uncle says it was different once. A long time back sometimes pictures said things or even showed people."- Clarrisse "Your uncle said, your uncle said, Your uncle must be a remarkable man."-Montag "He is. He certainly is."- Clarisse

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"Had he ever seen a fireman that didn't have black hair, black brows, a fiery face, and a blue-steel shave but unshaved look?" - pg. 30

This is Montag thinking to himself all the firemen look the same.

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The people like to watch the fire.

" It was a pleasure to burn. It was special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed." Pg. 1

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"God, thought Montag, how true! Always at night the alarm comes. Never by day! Is it because fire is prettier by night? More spectacle, a better show?" Pg. 36

This is when Montag finally realizes that they only burn at night to entertain the public.

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"That wasn't the Police, he thought. He looked down the Boulevard. It was clear now. A carful of children all ages, God knew, from twelve to sixteen, out whistling, yelling, hurrahing, had seen a man, a very extraordinary sight, a man strolling, a rarity." Pg.123

This shows that it wasn't the police chasing him it was the kids! The kids chased him and tried to kill him for fun.

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"Speed up the film, Montag, quick. Click Pic, Look, Eye, Now, Flick, Here, There, Swift, Pace, Up, Down, In, Out, Why, Who, How, What, Where, Eh? Uh! Bang! Smack! Wallop, Bing, Bong, Boom! Digest-digest, digest-digest-digest" - Beatty Pg.52

This Syntax really emphasizes the short attention span of the society and how little time you have before the next big thing, and the next thing, and the next.

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"Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending."- Beatty "Snap ending"- Mildred nodded. Pg.52

Is then Snap shot going to come back later in the book and have significance?

This also shows Just how quick society is ready to move on to the next thing.

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"Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag."-Beatty Pg.57

I thought this was an interesting take and helped me understand the reasoning that the people would use to burn the books. Originally I just thought society did it to hide knowledge which isn't proven false yet this makes sense as to why the people haven't revolted as a whole.

This also makes me really think and makes me begin to ask questions about Beatty's character, as in why he knows so many titles to books and why they might offend one's race.

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"Well Montag, Take my word for it, I've had to read a few in my time, to know what I was about, and the books say nothing!" - Beatty Pg. 59

This shows Montag read books.

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"The Sea of Faith

Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore

Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.

But now I only hear

Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,

Retreating, to the breath

Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear

And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true

To one another! for the world, which seems

To lie before us like a land of dreams,

So various, so beautiful, so new,

Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night." Montag recites "Dover Beach" Pg. 96

Montag is reckless by showing the women his books causing him. He then reads them this poem.

This poem shows how good turns into bad and how the society is said to be this big happy dream land when really there is war and it's just brain rot."

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"Mrs. Phelps was crying"

"I've always said poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feelings, poetry, and sickness" - Mrs. Bowles

pg. 97

Looking at the words written on page 97 you would think that the women are crying because of how sad the poem was when really Mrs. Phelps is sobbing because she doesn't understand the poem that was written.

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"Who are little wise, the best fools to be." - Beatty Pg.101

This shows Montag's position. Beatty is implying that Montag acts like he knows it all when he really only knows a little causing him to have ignorance and be a fool.

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"Watch. They'll catch Montag in the next five minutes!" Pg. 141

This is the snapshot ending to the chase chase because they don't actually catch Montag they catch an innocent man just so the people don't get bored.

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"Don't Judge a book by its cover" Pg.148

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The book of Ecclesiastes represents that just because you are rich or just because you own lots of things does not mean you are successful and have a good life.

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"Beatty flopped over and over and over and at last twisted in on himself like a charred wax doll and lay silent" Pg. 113

Montag instead of find the beauty of fire uses it to kill and solve his problems

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"Millie....?"

"When did we meet? And where?" - Montag Pg. 40

This is Montag asking Millie (his wife) where they met for the first time. She sadly can't remember and neither can he. This really pulled on my heartstrings because if I couldn't remember where I met my husband I would cry, and cry, and cry. This also shows how brain rot they have become because of the lifestyle society has provided and considered normal.