The ABC s of

Fahrenheit 451

By: Jose Mata Cristina Diaz Claudia Morelos Araceli Rodriguez

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tomic

The U.S. is using atomic warfare to destroy their enemies and bomb their major cities.

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B

enjamin Franklin

In the rules and history of firemen, it says that Benjamin was the first fireman.

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C

aptain Beatty

Captain Beatty was the antagonist of the story. He is the one that suspected Montag of having books.

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enham’s

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entifrice

Denham’s Dentifrice is the product being advertised to Montag on the train while he tries to memorize the Bible.

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E

mptiness

People have such great emptiness in their heads. They have no comfortable seats to sit and think. People don’t think anymore.

is for F lamethrower The flamethrower is the weapon that Montag used to burn his house and murder Beatty.

is for G uy Montag Guy Montag is the protagonist in the story. He is a Fireman. He’s married to a woman named Mildred.

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H

ound

The mechanical Hound is the fire dog. It is what hunts Montag after he murders Beatty.

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I

ronic

It’s ironic that firemen before used to put out fires and now they make them.

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J

ets

The Jets are foreshadowing that a major world event is about to take place.

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K

erosene

Kerosene is what Montag and the other firemen used to start the fires to burn the books and the houses.

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L

aw

The police aren’t the main enforcers of the Law. The Firemen are.

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M

cClellan

Clarisse McClellan is the 17 yr. old girl that got Montag thinking that burning books was the wrong thing to do. Instead they should be reading and writing them.

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N

eighbors

Montag’s neighbors all came out to see the fire show that they were about to have at Montag’s house. (They were really watching Montag burning his own house.)

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O

verdose

Mildred overdoses on her medicine and almost dies and Montag doesn’t know if it was suicide or an accident because she wasn’t thinking.

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P

rofessor Faber

Professor Faber is the retired English teacher who was helping Montag get though his problem with Beatty at the fire house through a micro-communicator.

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Q

uick

The “Major War” that was in progress was predicted to be a quick war, a 72 hour war.

is for R ay Bradbury Ray Bradbury tries to imply that humanity will soon be so dependant on technology that we won’t be able to live without it. He was criticizing that the modern American is too lazy.

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S

nake

The snake is the long black tube that was used to suck the poison out of Mildred’s stomach after the overdose.

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T

elevision

Mildred considers the characters in the interactive television as her family and cares more for them than for Montag.

is for U rbanization Urbanization is taking place along the abandoned railroads. They’re developing communities known as Hobo camps.

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V

entilator

The ventilator is the spot where Montag hid the books.

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omen

The women in

Fahrenheit 451

would rather have c-sections than give actual birth to their children. Another way they try to make their lives as simple and plain as possible.

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X

-fireman

Montag became an eX-fireman when he was being hunted as a fugitive.

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Y WhY was the U.S. going to war and what country?

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Z

ipper

The Zipper is a way that Beatty says how lazy the people of their country have gotten that they can’t even button a shirt they need to use a zipper.

THE END The End of the

Fahrenheit 451

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