5108671828 | montag | the main character, has a change of heart once he meets clarisse, finds ideas in books, meets faber, kills beatty, escapes hound, will reach the city | 0 | |
5108675757 | faber | the old man that assists montag in his plan to frame the firemen of keeping books | 1 | |
5108682828 | clarisse mccellan | montag's teenage neighbor who opens his eyes to the ideas of individuality | 2 | |
5108688725 | mildred | montag's wife who is addicted to television and attempts suicide and ends up pulling the alarm on their own house, dies in the bombing | 3 | |
5108700375 | beatty | captain of the firemen, is against books, forces montag to burn his home and to kill him | 4 | |
5108706287 | granger | ring leader of the gang of hobos at the end, uses the symbol of the phoenix, will help montag rebuild the city, memorizes then burns the books | 5 | |
5108711856 | clara phelps | mildred's friend, cries during montag's poetry reading, almost sees the beauty | 6 | |
5108715619 | mrs. bowles | mildred's friend, husband is in the military, has had multiple divorces | 7 | |
5108723363 | fireman black | the victim of montag and faber's plan to sabotage firemen, the only successful attempt at framing the firemen | 8 | |
5108728774 | clement | the other main hobo, will help rebuild the city, memorizes then burns the books | 9 | |
5108737373 | harris | the book printer who is an old friend of faber, faber attempts to find him in the end | 10 | |
5108743373 | old woman | keeps a secret library of books, commits suicide by dying with her burning books, quotes a speech, burns her own books with a match instead of the kerosene | 11 | |
5108755770 | old woman says while dying... | "play the man master ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in england, as i trust shall never be put out." | 12 | |
5108771287 | montag's realization | "...for the first time i realized that a man was behind each one of the books. a man had to think them up. a man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. and i'd never even thought that thought before." | 13 | |
5109671479 | beatty attempting to convince montag | "once, books to a few people, here, there everywhere. they could afford to be different. the world was roomy." | 14 | |
5109671480 | clarisse talking to montag about true socializing | "no front porches. my uncle says there used to be front porches. and people sat there sometimes at night, talking when they wanted to talk, rocking, and not talking when they didn't want to talk. sometimes they just sat there and thought about things..." | 15 | |
5109671481 | mildred trying to keep montag calm | "the keys to the beetle are on the night table. i always like to drive fast when I feel that way... it's fun out in the country. you hit rabbits, sometimes you hit dogs. go take the beetle." | 16 | |
5109671482 | beatty teaching montag about firemen | "we must all be alike. not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal. each man the image of every other; then all are happy..." | 17 | |
5109671483 | faber about good literature | "the good writers touch life often. the mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. the bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies." | 18 | |
5109671484 | faber about his fear and designing the ear bullet | "my cowardice is of such passion, contemplating the revolutionary spirit that lives in its shadow, i was forced to design this." | 19 | |
5109790401 | mrs. bowles on her children | " i plunk the children in school nine days out of ten... they'd just as soon kick me as kiss me. thank God, i can kick back!" | 20 | |
5109790402 | granger about legacy | "everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. a child or a book or a painting or a house... something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die..." | 21 | |
5109790403 | granger on learning from our past | "there was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up. he must have been first cousin to man. but every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes... it looks like we're doing the same..." | 22 | |
5109790404 | clement on burning books after memorization | "it's fine work. monday burn millay, wednesday whitman, friday faulkner, burn 'me to ashes, then burn the ashes." | 23 | |
5109790405 | on the way home from work | montag first meets clarisse | 24 | |
5109790406 | at work after sliding down the pole | montag's first interaction with the hound | 25 | |
5109868818 | sleeping pills and new blood | mildred's suicide attempt and fixing her | 26 | |
5109868819 | only fulfilled suicide, teaches montag | old lady burning with books | 27 | |
5109868820 | all in the walls, the air conditioning, under his pillow, and later in the backyard bushes | montag's book stealing addiction | 28 | |
5109868821 | needs a friend who understands | montag meets faber | 29 | |
5109868822 | montag fakes illness because he realizes that he is the bad guy | beatty visits montag's home | 30 | |
5109868823 | utilizing faber's invention for the plan | using the little green ear bullets to communicate | 31 | |
5109868824 | montag unplugs the wall tv, mrs. phelps crys | dramatic reading of dover beach | 32 | |
5109868825 | beatty forces montag to burn his home and books | montag uses a flamethrower and burns his house and murders beatty | 33 | |
5109868826 | montag gets injected, runs away, goes into the river | montag is chased by mechanical hound | 34 | |
5109868827 | drinks chemical serum, meets hobos | montag escapes | 35 | |
5109868828 | montag learns about the hobo lifestyle | montag sees that they are intellectual and memorize novels | 36 | |
5109868829 | mildred dies, everything is ashes, they will have to rebuild, the war ends | the bombing of the city | 37 | |
5109868830 | they will reach the city and use their memories of books | people are like books | 38 | |
5109868831 | salamander and the hearth | association with fire, worn by firemen, surviving | 39 | |
5109868832 | sieve and the sand | human mind analogy, filling up with ideas, truth cannot be grasped | 40 | |
5109884052 | burning bright | the end of montag's old life | 41 | |
5109884053 | phoenix | cycle of mankind | 42 | |
5109884054 | mirrors | honest self-reflection, society avoids this | 43 |
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