Fahrenheit 451 Timeline by https://padlet.com/akeating11/jc7n6doxvbqfha6i By Mr. Keating - English 9 en-us 2020-09-21 04:35:58 UTC 2023-05-19 13:04:19 UTC hello@padlet.com At the start of the story, we see Guy Montag enjoy his job as a fireman. However, in this society Guy Montag isn’t a fireman like we typically think of. He burns books instead. akeating11 https://padlet.com/akeating11/jc7n6doxvbqfha6i/wish/764330027 “It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and 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. “ (15, PDF)


]]> 2020-09-21 14:21:28 UTC https://padlet.com/akeating11/jc7n6doxvbqfha6i/wish/764330027 Clarisse is a teenage girl in Fahrenheit 451’s society who in many ways represents a foil to Guy’s character. She thinks about the world, acts free-spirited, and forces Guy to question himself and the society they live in. She asks Guy, “Are you happy?” which starts Guy’s journey of self reflection and growth in the story. akeating11 https://padlet.com/akeating11/jc7n6doxvbqfha6i/wish/768207339 “She laughed at this. “Good night!” She started up her walk. Then she seemed to remember something and came back to look at him with wonder and curiosity. “Are you happy?” she said. “Am I what?” he cried. But she was gone—running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.” (PDF, 21)


]]> 2020-09-22 14:04:01 UTC https://padlet.com/akeating11/jc7n6doxvbqfha6i/wish/768207339 Mildred is Montag’s wife and is completely addicted to technology. She is disconnected from humanity, and shows the stark contrast between Guy and her. She is a static character and never grows. When Guy discovers that she has overdosed on sleeping tablets, he rushes to call technicians to help. They save her life, but Mildred acts like she doesn’t even know about her attempted suicide. akeating11 https://padlet.com/akeating11/jc7n6doxvbqfha6i/wish/768245830 “Her face was like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain; over which clouds might pass their moving shadows, but she felt no shadow. There was only the singing of the thimble-wasps in her tamped-shut ears, and her eyes all glass, and breath going in and out, softly, faintly, in and out her nostrils, and her not caring whether it came or went, went or came. The object he had sent tumbling with his foot now glinted under the edge of his own bed. The small crystal bottle of sleeping tablets which earlier today had been filled with thirty capsules and which now lay uncapped and empty in the light of the tiny flare.” (PDF, 25)


]]> 2020-09-22 14:11:26 UTC https://padlet.com/akeating11/jc7n6doxvbqfha6i/wish/768245830 The mechanical hound is a technological beast that hunts down people for the firemen. The robot dog clearly doesn't like Guy, as he has several negative interactions with the beast. Throughout the story, Guy believes that the mechanical hound is tracking him. In many ways, the mechanical hound represents a method of control that the government has on the people in Fahrenheit 451’s society. akeating11 https://padlet.com/akeating11/jc7n6doxvbqfha6i/wish/770002585 “The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse. The dim light of one in the morning, the moonlight from the open sky framed through the great window, touched here and there on the brass and the copper and the steel of the faintly trembling beast. Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitive capillary hairs in the nylon brushed nostrils of the creature that quivered gently, gently, its eight legs spidered under it on rubber-padded paws.” (PDF, 36)


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