Fahrenheit 451 Q&A

Part 1

1. Montag lives in a society where you can only believe what they want you to believe; if you believe anything different than you are wrong. Their society burns down houses entailing books because they are not allowed to read and think for themselves. Our society today lets you read what you want and they stop fires not start them. People would die with their books rather than let their books burn alone.
2. Clarisse is different than anyone else because she thinks for herself and doesn't care that others think its bad or wrong; she is divergent from society as you can say. Montag is curious and he questions things. 
3. Beatty wants to watch Montag and to keep him in fear so that he doesn't question things. He also is set in that way to keep things normal and I don't think Beatty likes Montag.
4. The woman wanted to show that there is nothing wrong with books and she loved her books that she would do anything for them. She wanted to prove a point in the sense that books are not bad. Montag realizes that books must be pretty important for her to die along with them.
5. To show that Mildred and other people of this book's life is mostly watching television all the time. Their society is watching television instead of getting any knowledge from lets say books.
6. Montags wife Mildred tells him that Clarisse died 4 days ago getting ran over by a car and it seemed like Mildred did not care much at all. A lot of people die everyday so another person dead doesn't affect them. Death is normal to them.
7. Montag is saddened by Clarisse's death and he wants to figure out what to do about all his hidden books. He wants to read them and he wants Mildred to join him.
8. He is a very brave and curious man that wants to know more than he is allowed to. He doesn't really think entirely he just does kind of like he acts without thinking it through.
9. It has always been that way so its gonna stay that way. He pretty much says that knowing things is bad and what you don't know is bad also.
10. I think her claim of happiness is not real because she is only happy since they told her she is. You don't read then you're happy. You can't really define happiness because it's different for everyone. Being happy is a main goal in life but not necessarily the most important one.
11. When he started talking to Clarisse his idea on life began to transform. Also, when he started thinking and stealing books he started becoming a rebel.
12. "So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous." (41 Bradbury) 
    This foreshadows and shows that Montag was infected, and that he wanted more books.  
    The mechanical hound. (24-27) 
    Foreshadows that something isnt right and that the hound is out to get Montag. The heating vent in Montags house foreshadowed that there was something important in them.
13. "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." 
    Part 1, Section 1, p. 1
14. "Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jerseys are they wearing as they trot out on the field?"P.17 This is talking about how people don't really care about one another and if they are gone they don't even notice it. Also, that they are burning houses down and they don't even know the people in them.
15. My predictions are that Montag will go against everything he knows and fight Beatty on his ideas of their society. Also, that books might be allowed in their society after all.

Part 2

1. Mildred says that the books are not her family like the people on the television. I do not agree because they are not real. 
2. Faber gave him his number because I think he had a feeling he would be rebellious and start reading at one point. He also wanted to help him with reading and understanding books.
3. I think Montag would say that he doesn't know since he doesn't understand her or the books. Also, that she may be more important so why can't they read together. 
4. There is no hope or that people do not understand and choose not to understand. They can't be influenced or convinced unless its by society.
5. Montag wants to learn how to understand books. He also wants Faber to help him convince people that there is nothing wrong with reading books.
6. He means that her soul is dying. He was using trying to make stealing books okay with his wife as an example of humanity being dead.
7. a)Reading has quality.  It shows life as it actually is not a happy version of what life really is.b) Reading provides leisure, or the time to digest, process and think about information.c) Books prompt people to act on what they have learned.  No one acts on anything in Montag's society.  
8. Faber invented a device that looks like a seashell radio but is actually a two-way radio.
9. They say that children are like pets and they say bad things about war. They also talk bad about politics and other people.
10. He thinks they are ignorant and they don't know what they are talking about. They are shocked and disgusted that he even read.
11. He pretty much says that Montag needs to stop reading books and to not disobey the law. He is trying to get Montag to tell him he is hiding books in his house. He knows that he is reading.