# data[].attributes.body
"Montag tried to see the men's faces...He was looking for a brightness, a resolve, a triumph over tomorrow that hardly seemed to be there. Perhaps he had expected their faces to burn and glitter with the knowledge they carried, to glow as lanterns glow, with the light in them. But all the light had come from the campfire..." (Bradbury 147-148).

Montag expects the people carrying knowledge to have an air of pride and confidence, similar to a bright lantern, but realizes they look exactly like the others. They do not  show power and self-respect like a lantern with light in itself for their intelligence does not change their demeanor and does not give them light.

# data[].attributes.body
"Montag sat like a carved white stone"(Bradbury 104).
By comparing the way that Montag sits to carved white stone, Bradbury is able explain the stiffness and rigidness without explicitly saying it. This metaphor also tells us how worried Montag is and increases the general feeling of unease of the scene.

# data[].attributes.body
"With an effort, Montag reminded himself again that this was no fictional episode to be watched on his run to the river; it was in actuality his own chess game he was witnessing, move by move" (Bradbury 131).
Montag was watching his chase on the TV instead of trying to figure out what he should do next. He compares his escape to a chess game, because he and the government are trying to out-plan and out-think each other.

# data[].attributes.body
"This book can go under the microscope. You'd find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion," (Bradbury 79).

Literature of the past can reassure Montag of this passion, as opposed to the books that lack this characteristic. This trait of literature is what once made it so powerful, since there were once various elements and interpretations to the same response.

# data[].attributes.body
"It's like washing clothes; stuff laundry in and slam the lid" (Bradbury 93)
Mrs. Bowles compares her kids to inanimate objects that easily be disposed of instead of impressionable young people who need to be nurtured and taken care of. Clearly, she doesn't understand the responsibilities of being a mother and instead hands her children off for others to do her job for her

# data[].attributes.body
" There was a smell like a cut potato from all the land, raw and cold and white from having the moon on it most of the night. There was a smell like pickles from a bottle and a smell like parsley on the table at home. There was a faint yellow odor like mustard from a jar. There was a smell like carnations from the yard next door. " (Bradbury 137-138).

The comparison between the outdoors which embodies Montag's new life and the smell of flowers and a pantry all work towards Montag accepting his new life, learning to take in his surroundings but moreover how his new life feels like home. He is comfortable and familiar with the new smells that he experiences and that he can live with the decisions he's made.

# data[].attributes.body
"like bullets in which a savage islander might not believe because they were invisible"

# data[].attributes.body
"The bombers crossed the sky and crossed the sky over the house, gasping, murmuring, whistling like an immense, invisible fan, circling in emptiness" (Bradbury 69).

When Montag is explaining to Mildred about the all the affects of burning and other negative aspects of their society, Montag tells Mildred to listen to the bomber jets. The bomber jets are always flying around above the community yet they are unnoticed by most of the people. Montag realizes that no one mentions the bomber jets in the sky because they choose to live a life of ignorance so that they do not have to worry about anything.

# data[].attributes.body
"Light the first page, light the second page. Each becomes a black butterfly. Beautiful, eh?" (Bradbury 72).

Although quite the opposite is true, Beatty explains that out of the useless words and thoughts written in the pages, removing them restores peace. When burned, they create a butterfly, an innocent sign of life. Burning the pages rids the world of useless thoughts, and helps society, thrive and flourish.
Yet even more so, like a butterfly which is usually colorful, is black. The society that thrives from the removal of these words, lacks culture and color.

# data[].attributes.body
"They were like a monstrous crystal chandelier tinkling in a thousand chimes,  he saw their Cheshire cat smiles burning through the walls of the house, and now they were screaming at each other above the din" (Bradbury 89).

Montag is observing the behavior of Mildred and her friends, Mrs. Phelps and Mrs Bowels. They came in giggling and talking among themselves, which Montag compares to the chiming of a crystal chandelier. He also compares their smile the Cheshire cat, large conspicuous grins and their intensity burning through the walls. Their conversation soon became unpleasant and they seemed to be competing for the center of attention over the room

# data[].attributes.body
As Montag stands in disbelief he describes the sound of the shattering windows as, "A crash like the falling parts of a dream fashioned out of warped glass, mirrors, and crystal prisms" (Bradbury 108).

Montag is in shock that his own wife has betrayed him. His grand plan to slowly change the world was stopped before it had even started. Along with the windows, his dreams were shattered, "The falling parts of a dream" (Bradbury 108).

# data[].attributes.body
"Montag said nothing but stood looking at the women's faces as he had once looked at the face of saints in a strange church he had entered when he was a child"(Bradbury 91).  Montag is comparing his own wife, to saints in a church he knew nothing about. He doesn't understand these women, who don't worry about anything and don't have a care in the world. He is aware of the importance of books and caring about the past and tries bringing it to the women's attention, but they don't understand

# data[].attributes.body
"He could feel the Hound, like autumn, come cold and dry and swift, like a wind that didn't stir grass, that didn't jar windows or disturb leaf shadows on the white sidewalks as it passed"(Bradbury 130). The quote is comparing the Hound to autumn. Montag was running away from his city and he was paranoid that the Hound and other people would find and arrest him. Montag describe the Hound through autumn- quick, quiet, almost undetectable. In the autumn, Although he couldn't see or hear the Hound, Montag feelsits presence.

# data[].attributes.body
" By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me" (Bradbury 100).
The metaphor describes how time changed Montag's actions such as being ignorant. Rather than hiding his ignorance and learning through it, when he grew to the age of forty his ignorance disappeared. The instrument describes the cutting point of Monatg's ignorance to everything.

# data[].attributes.body
"out of the sky, fluttering, came the helicopter like a grotesque flower" (page 127)
A flower is used to describe something that is elegant, while grotesque describes something distorted or ugly. By saying the helicopter looked like a grotesque flower, Bradbury is explaining how the helicopter is supposed to be elegant, but is instead disfigured and distorted.

# data[].attributes.body
"Now that if you suggest that we print extra books and arrange to have them hidden in firemen's houses all over the country, so that seeds of suspicious would be sown among these arsonists" (Bradbury 81).
The metaphor used by Faber here in this heated discussion between him and Montag is used to represent his passion for going against society. He deeply regrets his lack of action in the past to combat the act of forbidding books and ideas. Seeds of suspicion being sown among arsonists is the metaphor being used here that shows fuel for a rebellion that Faber and Montag are planning. The presence of a metaphor in this part of the text strengthens the early relationship between Faber and Montag which will be beneficial for Montag later when he is a fugitive and needs a safe place to go to. The plan that Faber discusses in the quote above establishes his growing trust in this plan to take over society and to not back down.

# data[].attributes.body
¨But there was nothing, nothing; it was a stroll through another store, and his currency strange and unusable there, and is passion cold¨  (Bradbury 91).

This metaphor describes how Montag felt as if the women he was talking to had no meaning to him. They were strange and unknown people even though one of the women among them was his wife. He did not recognize or understand the people around him and they did not understand him.

# data[].attributes.body
"They held to the earth as children hold to familiar things, no matter how cold or dead, no matter what has happened or will happen, their fingers were clawed into the dirt, and they were all shouting to keep their eardrums from bursting, to keep their sanity from bursting, mouths open, Montag shouting with them, a protest against the wind that ripped their faces and tore and their lips, making their noses bleed" (Bradburdy 154).

The metaphor is describing the scene after Montag flees the city and witnesses the city being destroyed. Montag was holding onto the earth desperately because despite what has happened he still needs to survive. The city may have been destroyed, but he cannot be thinking about that, since survival should be his main priority.

# data[].attributes.body
During Faber's encounter with Montag he passionately explained to Montag that books, "show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless" (Bradbury 79). The books add depth to life, they help give it meaning and color. However, the people in this society are very surface level and superficial, they don't care for the various facets of life. They want simplicity and they shy away from complexity. The people don't want texture, they want wax like glossy finishes, which have no dimension. This society enjoys living in complete ignorance,and this metaphor communicates that.

# data[].attributes.body
"The other was like a chunk of burnt pine log he was carrying along as a penance for some obscure sin" (Bradbury 115) .
After being injected with something that numbed his leg Montag is having some feeling of quilt as he just  murdered a man. He wants to move on and be free to share the truth but he can't as something is holding him back. He knows that he is not able to share the word at it is a sin in the society. The leg is holding him back but there is something more that is holding him back from sharing his beliefs.

# data[].attributes.body
"They were like a monstrous crystal chandelier tinkling in a thousand chimes" (Bradbury 89).
When Mildred's friends come into the house, Montag hears their annoying voices mixed with the voices of the parlor and finds the overlapping noises to be extremely annoying. They are boisterous and  like greedy monsters that defy truths and stay in a safe bubble which is provided by their screens. They do not care about anything but their walls and TVs. However they are also fragile, like a crystal chandelier. They cannot handle the truth and would not be able to deal with the works of literature. They are ignorant, with their chiming voices and their opinions.

# data[].attributes.body
"And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibering manikin.." (Bradbury 113). Beatty is being described here and although he isn't a manikin, he is literally unable to move because he is in such pain. Saying he's a manikin allows the reader to paint a much better imagine in their head than if Bradbury were to say "Beatty could not move". Beatty being burned by Montag is a significant part of the story and the overall climax. Because of this, it deserves a powerful metaphor such as this one.

# data[].attributes.body
"The men laid gasping like fish laid out on the grass.They held to the Earth as children hold to familiar things". (Bradbury 154).

The men were in severe situation. If it went wrong, it could cost them their lives. These metaphors are useful in showing us how the men were feeling during the bombing event. The fact that they were, "Gasping like fish laid out on the grass" and "Holding on to the Earth like children hold onto familiar things" demonstrates the powerful emotions running through them trying to stay alive.

# data[].attributes.body
During Montag's trance-filled journey to find a safe haven, he is stranded on a high way, a "boatless river frozen there in the raw light of the high white arc lamps... It was a vast stage without scenery, inviting him to run across, easily seen in the blazing illumination, easily caught, easily shot down" (Bradbury 117-118).
Montag realizes he is on high alert with the whole town trying to catch him, and he is alone by himself. And yet, he is about to across what appears to be a desolate environment, but is still a threatening and dangerous decision since he can easily be caught and reprimanded.

# data[].attributes.body
Montag finds safety in a dark alley after almost being run over by a beetle. As Montag, "moved in the darkness, he could see the helicopters falling falling like the first flake of snow in the long winter  to come..." (Bradbury 123). Montag started a storm where he faces the challenge of being caught. Similar to winter, he has to endure the helicopters and hope that he doesn't get caught in the center of the storm. Montag is trying to survive this winter.

# data[].attributes.body
“The whole culture’s shot through. The skeleton needs melting and reshaping,” (Bradbury 83).
When Montag and Faber are forming their plan to revive their old society and way of life, Faber points out that simple burning down the houses of firemen isn’t enough, and that the issues are more deep-rooted than that. His metaphor about the skeleton is referring to the fact that the very structure of their society needs to be completely redone in order for things to return to the way they were.

# data[].attributes.body
"The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They're Caesars praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, 'Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.'" ( Bradbury 82).
Faber is trying to explain to Montag how books are important to learn the limits of man. Books prevent people from hurting themselves by teaching life lessons. Without the values in books being taught, a dangerous world is created where people don't know right from wrong.

# data[].attributes.body
like a chunk of burnt pine log he was carrying along as a penance for some obscure sin

# data[].attributes.body
"This book can go under the microscope. You'd find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion,"

# data[].attributes.body
"With an effort, Montag reminded himself again that this was no fictional episode to be watched on his run to the river; it was in actuality his own chess game he was witnessing, move by m