The ABCs of Fahrenheit 451

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The ABCs of Fahrenheit 451

• Kristen, Karina, Erica, Liz

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is for Ambition
The ambition of wanting to know about the world.
Montag felt a strong ambition to read books and
to understand the meaning of the words.
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is for Bible,
the religious book which brings peace to Montag.
He feels closer to God and believes that he needs
to memorize it before its too late. The Bible
also plays a strong part in professor Fabers
life.
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is for Captain Beatty, a dishonest fireman who
always talks about what he learned from books.
Hes the antagonist in the story who believes
books are evil.
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is for Death Death , a cold descriptive words
against all humanity. A cold feeling of fear
because of books and guilty mends.
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is for Escape Montag escapes from the city into
the country.
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is for Fahrenheit 451, the temperature at which
paper burns.
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is for Guilty conscious The feeling of doing
wrong. Montag feels guilty for having books in
his house. It never stops haunting him.
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is for Hell, the place where Montag feels hes
in. The fire burns him inside as he watches the
hell everybody goes through for protecting their
books.
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is for Intellectual, which has become a swear
word. It is a crime to be smart and think. The
act of trying to read books and learn from them
is a crime.
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is for Jets The aircrafts fly around their
houses. Montag is tired of them, but they are
always there showing that a war is about to begin.
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is for Kerosene, the oil used to start fires.
Montag thinks of it as a sense of cologne.
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is for Literature Beatty is a complex character,
full of contradictions. He is a book burner with
a large knowledge of literature. He is someone
who obviously cared about books at one point.
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is for Mildred Mildred is one major character in
the book who seems to have no hope in resolving
conflicts within herself. Her suicide attempts
suggest she is in great pain and her obsession
with television means she is trying to avoid
confronting her life.
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is for Neighbor Montags neighbor is a seventeen
year old girl named Clarisse McClellan who opens
Montags eyes to the emptiness of his life with
her innocent and unusual questions and love of
people and nature.
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is for Overdose Mildred has an overdose on her
pills and collapses on the floor.
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is for Phoenix The symbol of the Phoenixs
rebirth refers not only to the circle of natures
history and the rebirth of humankind but also to
Montags spiritual resurrection.
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is for Questioning Captain Beatty begins getting
suspicious about Montag and starts to question
him. When Montag says that he wouldnt like to
be the next victim of the hound, Beatty replies
Why, you got a guilty conscious about something?
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is for Religion Faber invokes the Christian value
of forgiveness, after Montag turns against
society. Faber describes himself as water and
Montag as fire, asserting that the merging of the
two will produce wine just like in the biblical
story when Jesus Christ transformation of water
into wine was a great miracle.
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is for Sieve and the Sand The idea of the sieve
and the sand is taken from Montags childhood
memory of trying to fill a sieve with sand on the
beach to get a dime from his cousin. He compares
this memory to his attempt to read the whole
Bible as quickly as possible so that some of the
material will stay in his memory.
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is for Technology Technology is the thing Ray
Bradbury shows can sometimes be harmful against
mankind.
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is for Uniform The uniform of the firemen has
two symbols engraved on it Phoenix and
Salamander.
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is for Voting The women would vote based on
appearances. They didnt want someone who was
fat, ugly, and said big words.
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is for War The world is at war.
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is for eXpressionless Books were hated and
feared because it showed the pores in the face of
life. The comfortable people want only wax moon
faces, pore less, hairless, expressionless.
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is for Yelling Montag and his wife yell and
argue. Their life is almost based on this. This
is their communication.
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is for Zealous Montag is zealous, or
enthusiastic, to learn new things and to go
against his beliefs and Beattys and to help
Faber bring books back to life.
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THE END

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