| “We cannot tell the precise moment when a friendship is formed…” (page 71) | Montage quotes a book in his head |
| “She was the first person in many years I’ve really liked. She was the first person I can remember who looked straight at me as if I counted” (page 72) | Montag describing Clarisse |
| “Books arn’t people. You read and I look around, but there isn’t anybody!” (page73) | Millie to Montage while reading |
| “I don’t talk things, sir. I talk the the meaning of things. I sit here and know I’m alive” (page 75) | Faber |
| “Who’s more important? Me or the bible?” (page 76) | Millie |
| “Delicately, like the petals of a flower. Light the first page,light the second page. Each becomes black butterfly. Beautiful eh?” (page 76) | Beatty |
| “My wife’s dying. a friend of mine has died. Someone who may have been a friend was burnt less then 24 hours ago. You’re the only one I knew might help me” (page 81) | Montag |
| “Lord how they’ve changed it in our parlors these days. Christ is one of the family now.” (page 81) | Faber |
| Faber compares Christ to what? | a regular peppermint stick |
| “Nobody listens anymore. I can’t talk to the walls because there yelling at me… I just want someone to hear what I have to say” (page 82) | Montag |
| ” We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Somethings missing.” (page 82) | Montag |
| “The magic is only in what books say” (page 83) | Faber |
| Information in books could also be where according to Faber? | parlor families, records, radios, television |
| “Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we might forget” (page 83) What other places were they stored? | Faber -old phonograph records-old motion pictures-old friends-in nature |
| “To me it means texture.The book has pores. It has features. The book can go under the microscope”(page 83) | Faber |
| What 3 thing does Faber sat is missing from society? | 1.) quality of information 2.) time for deep thinking3.) do something w/ the info gained from the first two |
| “So now do you see why books are hated and feared?They show pores in the face of life.” (page 83) | Faber |
| “The televisor is real. It is immediate, it has dimension.It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right.” (page 84) | Faber |
| “That’s the good part of dying; when you’ve nothing to lose, you run any risk you want” (page 84) | Montag |
| “To see the firehouses burn across the land, destroyed as hotbeds of treason. The salamander devours his tail” (page86) | Faber |
| Faber compares the families to …. | rats |
| “Those who don’t build must burn” (page 88) | Faber |
| What does the small green object faber has do and look like? | .22 bulletwalkie talkie |
| How did faber get money for electronics? | Stock market |
| What does Faber compare himself too when sitting in the house when Montag goes out? | Queen bee, safe in the hive |
| What was the bank like? | had robot tellers, open all night |
| When Millies friends rush in,what does Montage think of? | Mt. Vesuvius erupting |
| What are Millie’s friends names? | Mrs. Phelps and Mrs.Bowels |
| Mrs. Phelps husband… | Pete |
| “No use going through all that agony for a baby. The world must reproduce, you know, the race must go on.” (page 96) | Mrs. Bowels |
| “Children are ruinous” | Mrs. Phelps |
| The women like President Noble because | he’s good looking |
| Who started crying after Montag read the poem? | Mrs. Phelphs (Clara) |
| “Silly words silly words silly words. Why do people want to hurt people? Not enough hurt in the world.” (page100) | Mrs. Bowles |
| “If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn” (page 104) | Faber |
| “The crisis is past and all is well, the sheep returns to the fold. We’re all sheep who have strayed at times.” | Beatty |
| “Words are like leaves and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. | Beatty |
| “Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you’re ready to blowup the world,chopoff heads….” | Beatty |
| Why was the last call that Montage got special? | Beatty was driving and they went to his house |
| “You werent fooled by that idots routine were you? Flowers, Butterfiles… Its all in her file! Ill be damned. Ive hit a bulls eye. Look at the sick look on your face” | Beatty |
| “Other die, I go on…By the time consequences catch up with you its too late” | Beatty |
| “What is fire? A mystery… Scienctists don’t really know. Its a real beauty thatdesroys consequences and responsibities” | Beatty |
| What does Montag burn his house with? | Flame thrower |
| “Fire was best for everything!” | Montag |
| The books in the flame were compared to what? | danced like roasted birds |
| How does Montag describe the parlors? | great idiot monsters lay asleep with there white thoughts and snowy dreams |
| “Give a man a few lines of a verse and he’s the Lord of creation” | Beatty |
| Beatty’s dead body is compared to what? | a charred wax doll |
| “Don’t face a problem, burn it.” | Beatty |
| The road Montag was trying to cross was compared to… | boatless river; danger to crossa bowling alley |
| How fast was the beetle going that almost hit Montag? | 130mph |
| “It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know I’m drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive?” | Montag |
Quotes from Fahrenheit 451 (part 2 and 3)
February 7, 2020