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smoldering (v) - Burning without a flame.
The smoldersmoldering ashes suddenly turned into a burst of flameinto flames.
multifaceted (adj) - Having many faces or sides.
The diamond was multifaceted.
parried (v) - Deflected or avoided.
The goalie parried the hockey puck.
make a decisiondecision.
Diana is indecisive about what movie we should go see
grotesque (adj) - Bizarre; distorted.

Analysis:
Bradbury is trying to show how Clarisse represents nature in the book. She is the odd one out because of her curiosity and her strong dislike of violence and TV. Her willingness in this quote to try things out of the ordinary and to tell someone else to try it too.
Place quotations"What is there about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?' Beatty blew out the flame and analyses here.lit it agian. 'It's perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did. Or almost perpetual motion. If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It's a mystery. Scientist give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beautiful is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it. Now, Montag, you're a burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practcal."
Analysis:
Fire is a natural thing that was meant to sustain life but in Fahrenheit 451 fire is used most for destructive purposes. At the end of the quote Beatty states that Montag is a burden and that fire will get ride of the burden. This could be foreshadowing that Montag's house is going to burn with his books and implies that Beatty knows about Montag keeping books hidden.
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I think what this quote means is that there are a variety of books out there written by a variety of opinionated people. So the more books you read, the more different kinds of messages and opinions you are going to recieve One book may influence you one way, and another book can influence you the opposite way. It can be frustrating getting mixed messages. Eventually, you are just confused with a bunch of wordy advice in you head.
x-Themes--Technology and ModernizationTechnology and Modernization
Place quotations"He took Montag quickly into the bedroom and analyses here.lifted a picture frame aside, revealing a television sreen the size of a postal card. 'I always wanted something very small, something I could talk to, something I could blot out with the palm of my hand, if necessary, nothing that could shout me down, nothing monstrous big."
Analysis:
This is Faber speaking to Montag and showing him his hand sized tv. Faber is scared that he will become like the rest of the society an become addicted to tv which is why he keeps a small tv that he can easily cover up and out of sight. Ray Bradbury is trying to emphasize in this quote how much tv has taken over the society and how close tv is to making books as well as reading extinct.
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{Screen_shot_2011-03-18_at_8.19.17_AM.png} Mildred Montag
{Screen_shot_2011-03-18_at_8.19.41_AM.png} Clarisse McClellanClarisse McClellan, a lone girl that shook the minds of people who could not think for themselvs. Clarisse McClellan was a young girl who liked to play outside and in the rain rather than watch TV all day. I believe that Ray wrote her this way because whe was a big role model to Guy. She was a protagonist because she helped Guy Montag to move forward in his journey to become and think freely about sho he really is.
Clarisse McClellan was a friend of Montags that opened his eyes to the world around him. Bradburry even said in the book that his mask was taken away. The way Clarisse talks is that of an average girl. But in her era this is not average at all, in fact this behavior is punishable. Through her words she motivates and tries to change the way Montag knows the world. Bradburry has her do this so that Montag can take some bigger steps toward understanding what he is going through. Honestly, Clarisse may be young and small but with out her there would be no story because Montag would most likly never meet another person to remove the could sourrounding his mind.
{beatty2.png} Captain BeattyCaptian Beatty is the top dog basically. He is in charge of the firehouse. He is an antagonist because in the enitire novel he tries to prohibit Montag from all the books in the word. He is a very sneaky kind of guy. He knows a lot of things that people wouldn't ordinarily think that he'd know. The relationship between him and the characters is that he is really just in charge of everything. Within his speech and dialogue, he's a very persuasive and intelligent. He knows how to get around certain things.
{Faber.png} Professor Faber
Professor Faber
smart man.
{Granger.png} GrangerNext we have Granger. Granger comes in the story a little late, but still has time to play a part for Guy. Granger is a part of intelectual men who all memorize books. Ray Bradburry has Granger and this group of people to try to show the readers that its whats inside the books that count, not the book itself. Granger is also a protagonist because he helps Guy move forward in the story. He knows faber from part of the intelectuals and he meets Guy while Guy is on his quest. Granger is very good with words, being that he is intelectual, this makes sense. All in all Granger is just one of the many people who influence Guy to change his perception of the world.

Professor Faber
In Fahrenheit 451, Professor Faber is a retired english teacher. He is the antagonist because he helped out Montag a lot. He helped him overcome a lot of things like his emotion and Mildred. Him and Montag become pretty good friends by the end of the book. He was Montag's only true friend. He was a very intelligent man. He always spoke in very big words and I guess you could say smart words. A lot of the words that he said most people didn't understand. Probably most of our vocab words came from quotes that he said. He was a very smart man.
{Granger.png} GrangerNext we have Granger. Granger comes in the story a little late, but still has time to play a part for Guy. Granger is a part of intelectual men who all memorize books. Ray Bradburry has Granger and this group of people to try to show the readers that its whats inside the books that count, not the book itself. Granger is also a protagonist because he helps Guy move forward in the story. He knows faber from part of the intelectuals and he meets Guy while Guy is on his quest. Granger is very good with words, being that he is intelectual, this makes sense. All in all Granger is just one of the many people who influence Guy to change his perception of the world.

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Literature and Writing
complementary statements?
I think that these statements complement eachother, because they are both basically saying the same thing. They both are saying that the books themselves don't matter, it's what you take from the books, and/or what you get out of them that matters.
this novel?
I
I think that mindless stuff.
3) "What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a gerat welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives."
I think what this quote means is that there are a variety of books out there written by a variety of opinionated people. So the more books you read, the more different kinds of messages and opinions you are going to recieve One book may influence you one way, and another book can influence you the opposite way. It can be frustrating getting mixed messages. Eventually, you are just confused with a bunch of wordy advice in you head.
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x-Themes--Wisdom and KnowledgeWisdom and Knowledge
Place quotationsMontag walked to the kithen and analyses here.
Place quotationsthrew the book down. "Montag", he said, "you're really stupid. Where do we go from here? Do we turn the books in, forget it?" He opened the book to read over Mildred's laughter. Poor Millie, he thought. Poor Montag, it's mud to you, too. But where do you get help, where do you find a teacher this late?
He is debating with himself. He doesn't know what to with the books. He thinks his wife is either sick mentally or she is laughing at him.
"I dont's want to chaqnve sides and analyses here.
Place quotationsjust be told what to do. There's no reason to change if I do that."
"You're wise already!"
Basically, he doesn't want to be told what to do. He thinks he shouldn't change. If he did switch sides that is. He just answered his question by saying what he wants.
"Only a week ago, pumping a kerosene hose, I thought: God, what fun!"
The old man nodded. "Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and analyses here.juvenile delinquents."
"So that's what I am."
"There's some of it in all of us."
In basic terms he's saying were all juvenile delinquents. There's some of that characteristic in all of us. They all have fun over thigs normal people wouldn't.
x-Themes--ViolenceViolence
Place quotationsA minute later, Three White Cartoon Clowns chopped off each other's limbs to the accompaniment of immense incoming tides of laughter. Two minutes more and analyses here.
Place quotationsthe room whipped out of town to the jet cars wildly circling an arena, bashing and analyses here.backing up and bashing each other again. Montag saw a number of bodies fly in the air.
"Millie, did you see that?"
"I saw it, I saw it!"
Millie is a sick person. She finds violence and people in aggonizing pain hilarious. Which clearly from my perspective someone who is a complere psyco woul find that funny.
The fire was gone, thenm back again, like a winking eye. He stopped, afraid he might blow the fire out with a single breath. But the fire was there and he approached warily, from a long way off, It took the better part of fifteen minutes before he drew very close indeed to it, and then he stoodlooking at it from cover. That small motion, the white and red colour, a strange fire because it meant a different thing to him.
He felt the difference within the burning of the books in comparison to a normal fire. He actually could feel the warmth and the literature and knowledge burning.
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x-Themes--IdentityIdentity

{montag.png} Guy MontagGuy Montag was a fireman when the story of Fahrenheit 451 began. Guy Montag is the protagonist, because he is the main character. In the story, he has a wife, Mildred, his "boss" is Beatty. Faber was just a friend that Montag met in the park. And finally Clarisse was a friend of Montag that he met in the beginning of the book. It sounds like Montag had speech and dialogue. He had more then Mildred, but personally i think less then Faber. Guy Montag i think gets more "grammatically correct" and more professional speech, as the book goes on. Mainly because as the book goes on Montag begins to read and understand things, so naturally i think his speech and dialogue would get better.
{Screen_shot_2011-03-18_at_8.19.17_AM.png} Mildred Montag
{Screen_shot_2011-03-18_at_8.19.41_AM.png} Clarisse McClellanClarisse McClellan, a lone girl that shook the minds of people who could not think for themselvs. Clarisse McClellan was a young girl who liked to play outside and in the rain rather than watch TV all day. I believe that Ray wrote her this way because whe was a big role model to Guy. She was a protagonist because she helped Guy Montag to move forward in his journey to become and think freely about sho he really is.
Clarisse McClellan was a friend of Montags that opened his eyes to the world around him. Bradburry even said in the book that his mask was taken away. The way Clarisse talks is that of an average girl. But in her era this is not average at all, in fact this behavior is punishable. Through her words she motivates and tries to change the way Montag knows the world. Bradburry has her do this so that Montag can take some bigger steps toward understanding what he is going through. Honestly, Clarisse may be young and small but with out her there would be no story because Montag would most likly never meet another person to remove the could sourrounding his mind.
{beatty2.png} Captain Beatty
{Faber.png} Professor Faber

Significant Quotations
Literature and Writing
complementary statements?
I think that these statements complement eachother, because they are both basically saying the same thing. They both are saying that the books themselves don't matter, it's what you take from the books, and/or what you get out of them that matters.
this novel?
I
I think that mindless stuff.
3) "What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a gerat welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives."
I think what this quote means is that there are a variety of books out there written by a variety of opinionated people. So the more books you read, the more different kinds of messages and opinions you are going to recieve One book may influence you one way, and another book can influence you the opposite way. It can be frustrating getting mixed messages. Eventually, you are just confused with a bunch of wordy advice in you head.
2.) "Come on woman!" The woman knelt among the books, touching the drenched leather and cardboard, reading the gilt titles with her fingers while her eyes accused Montag. "You can't ever have my books," she said.
Analysis:
I believe that the woman was trying to get the point across to the firemen that they could burn her books as much as they wanted, but she still had the knowledge that lay inside them. The books was just a way of transporting, if you will, the knowledge that they held. As long as someone had read the book and retained the knowledge, they still had the book. In my perspective, I don't think that the woman should've burned herself along with the books because that means that she burned the knowledge she had. So in a way, she burned her "books," and by books, I mean knowledge. Kind of a not so smart thing to do in my opinion...
x-Themes--Technology and ModernizationTechnology and Modernization
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Montag is not happy because he found out he doesn't like burning books. He didn't mind it before, but when they burned that womans house I think it made him realize that there really is something in books. He know's that there is something about books that people don't know. He doesn't even know what it is, but he wants to know. He is getting curious.
x-Themes--Man and the Natural WorldMan and the Natural World
"Without turning on the light he imagined how his room would look. His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb,her eyes fixed"I'm still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable. Andwalk in it."
"I don't think I'd like that."
"You might if you tried."
"I never have."
She licked her ears the little seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind. The room was indeed empty. Every night the waves come in and bore her off in their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning.There had been no night in the last two years that mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly gone down in it for the third time."lips. "Rain even tastes good."
Analysis:
MontagBradbury is just coming back from the fire station and enters the room but he leaves light lights offtrying to not disturb Mildred. He is imagining what the room looks like andshow how his wife, Mildred, looks lyingClarisse represents nature in the bed. This passage shows irony in thatbook. She is the the ear budodd one out because of her curiosity and her strong dislike of violence and TV. Her willingness in mildred's ear is called a "sea shell" which is relatingthis quote to nature where astry things out of the book is all about technology taking over.ordinary and to tell someone else to try it too.
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