Transcript Liz, Erika, Karina, and Kristen

The
ABCs
of Fahrenheit 451
Kristen, Karina, Erica, Liz
is for Ambition
The ambition of wanting to know
about the world. Montag felt a
strong ambition to read books
and to understand the meaning
of the words.
is for Bible,
the religious book which brings peace to
Montag. He feels closer to God and
believes that he needs to memorize it
before it’s too late. The Bible also plays a
strong part in professor Faber’s life.
is for Captain
Beatty,
a dishonest fireman who always talks
about what he learned from books.
He’s the antagonist in the story who
believes books are evil.
is for Death
Death , a cold descriptive words
against all humanity. A cold feeling of
fear because of books and guilty
mends.
is for Escape
Montag escapes from the city into the
country.
is for Fahrenheit
451,
the temperature at which paper burns.
is for Guilty
conscious
The feeling of doing wrong. Montag
feels guilty for having books in his
house. It never stops haunting him.
is for Hell,
the place where Montag feels he’s in.
The fire burns him inside as he
watches the hell everybody goes
through for protecting their books.
is for
Intellectual,
which has become a swear word. It is
a crime to be smart and think. The act
of trying to read books and learn from
them is a crime.
is for Jets
The aircrafts fly around their houses.
Montag is tired of them, but they are
always there showing that a war is
about to begin.
is for
Kerosene,
the oil used to start fires. Montag
thinks of it as a sense of cologne.
is for
Literature
Beatty is a complex character, full of
contradictions. He is a book burner
with a large knowledge of literature.
He is someone who obviously cared
about books at one point.
is for Mildred
Mildred is one major character in the
book who seems to have no hope in
resolving conflicts within herself. Her
suicide attempts suggest she is in
great pain and her obsession with
television means she is trying to avoid
confronting her life.
is for
Neighbor
Montag’s neighbor is a seventeen
year old girl named Clarisse McClellan
who opens Montag’s eyes to the
emptiness of his life with her innocent
and unusual questions and love of
people and nature.
is for
Overdose
Mildred has an overdose on her pills
and collapses on the floor.
is for Phoenix
The symbol of the Phoenix’s rebirth
refers not only to the circle of nature’s
history and the rebirth of humankind
but also to Montag’s spiritual
resurrection.
is for
Questioning
Captain Beatty begins getting
suspicious about Montag and starts to
question him. When Montag says that
he wouldn’t like to be the next victim of
the hound, Beatty replies “Why, you
got a guilty conscious about
something?”
is for Religion
Faber invokes the Christian value of
forgiveness, after Montag turns
against society. Faber describes
himself as water and Montag as fire,
asserting that the merging of the two
will produce wine just like in the
biblical story when Jesus Christ
transformation of water into wine was
a great miracle.
is for Sieve
and the Sand
The idea of the sieve and the sand is
taken from Montag’s childhood
memory of trying to fill a sieve with
sand on the beach to get a dime from
his cousin. He compares this memory
to his attempt to read the whole Bible
as quickly as possible so that some of
the material will stay in his memory.
is for
Technology
Technology is the thing Ray Bradbury
shows can sometimes be harmful
against mankind.
is for Uniform
The uniform of the firemen has two
symbols engraved on it: Phoenix and
Salamander.
is for Voting
The women would vote based on
appearances. They didn’t want
someone who was fat, ugly, and said
big words.
is for War
The world is at war.
is for
eXpressionless
Books were hated and feared
because it showed the pores in the
face of life. The comfortable people
want only wax moon faces, pore less,
hairless, expressionless.
is for Yelling
Montag and his wife yell and argue.
Their life is almost based on this. This
is their communication.
is for Zealous
Montag is zealous, or enthusiastic, to
learn new things and to go against his
beliefs and Beatty’s and to help Faber
bring books back to life.
THE END
The End of the
Fahrenheit 451 ABCs