Ray Bradbury'S Fehrenheit 451

 

Characters

- Guy Montag is a fire fighter that burns book and creates fire instead of fighting them. Who goes through a moral dilemma after a woman burns with her books.

 

-Clarisse McClellen is a seventeen year old girl that Guy met walking down the street. She and her family seem very happy even though they're kind of outcassts, just because they like to be active.

 

-Mildred Montag is Guy's wife and likes to listen to tapes of seashells.

 

- Faber is a retired professor who relizes the problem with book burning, but like so many others wont speakout aginst it.

 

-Mrs. Phelps is one of mildreds freinds who shows no emotion even when her husband is goes to war.

 

-Granger is a kind of keeper of the books he tries to keep them safe. He is smart and has alot of self confidence. He seems to have a purpose.

 

-Captain Beatty hates books and the people that read them.

 

 

Important Events

 

 

Settings

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Themes

 

first: Censorship

second: Knowledge versus Ignorance

third: Paradoxes

forth:Religion

 

Quotes

 

1.) "The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour." (Beatty)

 

2.)"Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!"(Montag)

 

3.)"Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries of more." (Beatty)

 

4.)"The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt!" (Montag)

 

5.)"Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences." ( Faber)

 

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