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Evidence:
“Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him”(Bradbury 113)

Means:
Montag had use the flamethrower that was in his hands on Beatty and burned the captain.

Matters:
Even though Montag had killed Beatty this one of the few actions Montag had done that were not influenced by another person like Faber or Captain Beatty. Bradbury could be showing how Montag had developed as a character in the society of Fahrenheit 451.

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| Evidence:  “’What is there about fire that’s so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?’” (Bradbury, 109)    |   Beatty lectures Montag about his decisions and asks open-ended questions about their society and related questions. |   The quote shows that Beatty finds joy in the situation, mocking Montag by asking such questions.

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Says: “‘‘There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats […] which I respect not,” (page 113). Means: Beatty says how since Montag now has a read the books, he does not fear Beatty. Matters: This quote is an allusion to William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.” Beatty mocks Montag by quoting this book, by saying now that Montag is “arm’d” with the knowledge he has gained from books, he no longer sees Beatty as a threat.

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Evidence:“Yes, he thought, where am I running?” (Bradbury 118)
| Montag does not know where he is running to
| Montag is just trying to get away from the problems that he has caused.

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“’What is there about fire that’s so lovely...its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it. Now, Montag, you’re a burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical.’”
(Bradbury, 109)
Means:
Beatty wants Montag gone and he wants Montag to just give up. Now that Beatty knows that his suspicions were correct about Montag’s reading, he just explodes with a rant to say; I want you gone…bye.
Matters:
Beatty was never really Montag’s friend and will make sure that Montag is dead to kind of have some kind of revenge so suspicion is off Beatty.

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Evidence: “Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it.” (Bradbury 109).
Means:Beatty believes that fire solves all problems with responsibility and consequence.Matters: He is representing how most firefighters feel about burning books. He also is indicating that books are the ones that come with consequences and responsibilities since they are the ones burned in the story.

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| Evidence: “And as before, it was good to burn, he felt himself gush out in the fire, snatch, rend, rip in half with flame, and put away the senseless problem” (Bradbury 110)

| Montag has a sense of relief and pleasure from burning his house. He is using it to put away his problems.

The fire represents a new start/ clean slate where Montag does not have to think about the consequences of his actions leading to that point. It rids him of all regrets and doubt, to relieve him of his troubles.

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| Evidence: “Keep going.” (Bradbury 120) |  Montag had to keep going. |  This phrase wasn’t said by anyone; it could have been a mantra that Montag was repeating in his head, an insert into his mind from Bradbury, or even to help represent a reader’s hopes for Montag. In any case, it is a phrase meant to help press Montag forward.

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Evidence:
“Montag only said, “We never burned right…’” (Bradbury 113)
Means:
Montag said books were the wrong thing to burn.
Matters:
Montag realized that books were not the problem is society, it was the people that want to block those from having them. They teach that feeling the basics of life is unnecessary and bad.

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Evidence:“A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it.” (Bradbury 109)        Means: Beatty is saying that when something gets too difficult, it should be done away with.  Matters: This quote really represents the society they live in. The people in this society are very happy. They are determined to have everything in their life be happy and nothing be upsetting. This is shown when Mildred’s friend cries after Montag reads to her.

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Evidence: “Beatty, he thought, you’re not a problem now. You always said, don’t face a problem, burn it. Well, now I’ve done both. Goodbye, Captain.”
| I think the obvious meaning is that Montagu killed (burned) Beatty and now Beatty cannot hold him back as well as the fact that as firemen they burn books which are the “problem” of this society. But the deeper meaning to the specific quote “don’t face a problem, burn it” is that it is easier to completely ignore of destroy a problem than facing it and handling it.
The importance of this quote is that Montag burned Beatty, this is an introduction to a new beginning in the story, whereas Montagu has no job, house, or wife.

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| Says | Means | Matters
| Evidence: “The front door opened; Mildred came down the steps, running, one suitcase held with a dreamlike clenching rigidity in her fist, as a beetle-taxi hissed to the curb” (Bradbury 108).| Mildred was prepared to leave when Beatty came. |Montag finds out that his own wife gave him up to the authorities.

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| Evidence:   “A shotgun blast went off every time he put it down and he thought, you’re a fool, a damn fool, an idiot, an awful idiot, a damn idiot, and a fool; look at the mess and where’s the mop, look at the mess, and what do you do?” (Bradbury 115)        |    The fact Montag is thinking about the choices that he makes and how what he has done makes him feel like an idiot. |    It makes him question the choices that he has made.

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| Evidence: “‘Yes, the Hound’s somewhere about the neighborhood, so don’t try anything. Ready?’ ‘Ready.’ Montag snapped the safety catch on the flame thrower. ‘Fire!’” (Bradbury 110) |  Beatty commands Montag to set fire to his own home. |  More amusing than critically interesting: Beatty, by giving Montag the instruction to “fire”, Beatty gave him the means to kill him to Montag. They say don’t play with fire, but I think it is better to not hand a whole lot of fire to someone who is on a very short fuse (aka Montag) who is liable to blow up.

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| Evidence: “’It’s perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did... Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. A problem too burdensome, then into the furnace with it.” (Bradbury 109)         | Fire can burn, scorch, and tarnish anything. | Beatty is giving fire a huge symbolic meaning. He worships the fire and uses it like a drug; it can erase his problems and make him feel better until more problems arise. Calling it a beauty shows his admiration but also his sense of control as he uses it so he can feel untouchable, las he can do anything he wants.

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| Evidence:  “And as before, it was good to burn, he felt himself gush out in the fire, snatch, rend, rip in half with flame, and put away the senseless problem, either.” (Bradbury 110)
Montag was happy and relieved as he burned downed his home.

This symbolizes that he was unhappy in his past life and happy for a change. He was glad that this part of his life is over and can never come back again.

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Evidence: “She saw everything. She did not do anything to anyone. She just left them alone.”

Means: | Montag is talking about how Clarisse minded her own business, that she never hurt anyone with her knowledge.

Matter:This contradicts what this society is saying. People with the ability  to read are detrimental to the society but here we have Clarisse who didn’t do anything to anyone yet she was wiped away.

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Says: “He stepped into the bedroom and fired twice and the twin beds went up in a great simmering whisper, with more heat and passion than he would have supposed them to contain.” (Bradbury 110)
Means: Montag burned his bedroom down with two shots of the flame-thrower.
Matters: Montag’s thoughts that the bedroom had more passion then he would have expected shows the lack of passion in his home life. It also shows that he feels that the society, thus their things, have no feelings.

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Evidence: "He twitched the safety catch on the flamethroer"
Means: He threatened to kill Beatty.
Matters: Montag is willing to murder someone to accomplish his goal.

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| Evidence:  “Go ahead now, you second-hand litterateur, pull the trigger.’ He too one step towards Montag. Montag only said, “We never burned right…” (Bradbury 113)         |
Means:
Montag replies to Beatty’s leer of him only using other knowledge with an original quote. |
Matters:
When Montag says ‘we never burned right’ he means that they never burned the right things. They should have been burning the people like Beatty, not Faber and Montag. They should have been burning the government.

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| Evidence: “For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is certain, that nothing will ever happen to me. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities…” (Bradbury 108-109)         |Mean: Beatty is untouchable. |Matter: It shows why Beatty has yet to have his house burned down, been arrested or simply been questioned for knowing all these quotes from certain novels.

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| Evidence: “And as it were before, it was good to burn, he felt himself gush out in the fire, snatch, rend, rip in half with flame, and put away the senseless problem.” (Bradbury 110)
Means:  | Montag talks about how good it feels to be burning something again.
Matters: | Montag feels that he has finally begun to burn the right things. He says that it feels good to burn because he is releasing himself form the chains of society.

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| Evidence: “He stepped into the bedroom and fired twice and the twin beds went up in  a great simmering whisper, with more heat and passion and light than he would have supposed them to contain” (Bradbury 110)          | Means: The fire produced by the beds do not accurately represent how they were used in Montag’s marriage. |  Matters :Montag’s marriage was very unhappy has he and his wife did not much appreciate each other and were not extremely passionate.

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| Evidence: “The other was like a chunk of burnt pine log he was carrying along as a penance for some obscure sin.
Means
| Montag’s leg is dead weight. |
Matters
His leg is compared to the burnt wood of his house and it is now just as useless

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Evidence

“Montag, can’t you run, get away!”
| Means
| Faber is currently at home, he’s not witnessing what is happening he’s only reacting by what he’s hearing.  He doesn’t seem to understand how guarded Montag really is.

| Matters
| This matters because it shows how Faber isn’t really that much of a good friend in my opinion because he and Montag plotted a plan together and yet Montag is paying the consequence while Faber is just sitting at home listening.

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Says:
Evidence: “Beatty, he thought, you’re not a problem now. You always said, don’t face a problem, burn it. Well, now I’ve done both. Goodbye, Captain” (Bradbury 115).
Means:
| Montag is reminiscing about what he had just done. He followed Beatty’s advice to burn his problems and not to face them.
Matters:
| Again, the irony that Beatty’s advice is what got him killed is revisited. Montag did not face his problem, Beatty, and instead burned him, just as Beatty kept telling him to do. Montag also ends the phrase with, “Goodbye Captain,” signifying that he still respected Beatty, as he called him by his title.