Last Pair of Fahrenheit Questions

Luis Acevedo
Per. 3
Honors English

Part 3 questions final part!

42. Beatty has given Montag hints that he is under suspicion by going to his home and giving him a lecture about books and how they confuse people and they are happier without them and with the hounds.

43. Mildred must have brought the books back from the garden.

44. Mildred and Mildred’s friends turned in an alarm against Montag.

45. Montag’s green bullet was destroyed.

46. Montag burned Beatty’s body because Beatty said he wouldn’t and Montag was sick of him and Montag was going crazy because he lost everything and he made him burn his own house down, and Beatty was going to arrest him.

47. Montag’s plan to escape was to run to Faber’s house and then formulate a better plan there.

48. Montag gave Faber $100.

49. The mechanical hound can remember ten thousand scents.

50.Montag wanted Faber to turn on the sprinklers and air conditioning to hide his scent.

51. “Twenty million Montag’s running, soon if the cameras catch him means that he will be on all kinds of television screen if the camera gets a site of him.

52.The search for Montag veered inland because Montag had done a fine job of hiding his scent so the trail on him was lost.

53. A man that was walking at night that may in fact represent Bradbury when he was walking and no one else was, died in Montag’s place.

54. What Granger meant from welcome back from the dead is that welcome back because he suppose ably died because that man was killed and it was said that that man was Montag.

55. No incriminating evidence is found because there is no evidence, they read the book memorize it and burn it.

56. I do have a sense that there are other “book chapters” in other towns because one never knows what is there and what isn’t until one looks.

57. When Granger said that “you’re no important. You are not anything” is that Montag is one insignificant person in the way of the world achieving what they remain to believe a happy idealistic life.

58. The last implications is that Granger and the gang were discussing that they want to rebuild the world as it once was and not as it is now(in there time period) and how the town was destroyed but will arise again and hopefully be a better, more realistic place.

Final Fahrenheit Journals set 3

Luis Acevedo
Per. 3
Honors English 9
7 March 7, 2008
Third and final set of Fahrenheit Journals!

Pages 127-135

Quote: “The beetle was rushing. The beetle was roaring.” Page 127

This quote was interesting to me for one particular reason-suspense! I was so thrilled when I started reading this because I was so into Montag, the husband, Montag the fireman, Montag the fugitive. He was getting chased down for his righteous acts for keeping those books and trying to find out what was so special about them. What made them be destroyed in the ever- cleansing flames? The suspense was high in this quote. The police took a glance at him and was no chasing him down and Montag tried to keep his cool, and did for the most part. Until he dropped his book and started running. Then at the heat of the moment Montag falls only to discover that it wasn’t the police at all, it was some kids just chasing him down because they had no life, or should I say television set to be glued to all day. That is why I found this quote to be interesting.

Quote:”Good night, Mrs. Black, he though.” Page 130

I found this to be interesting for several reasons. Montag had committed yet another crime. He had set his plan into motion with this righteous act of justice. He was also somewhat of an artist. How ironic his plan was. To plant books in the houses of the same people who earn a living burning them! How artistic indeed. He courageous and sneakily went trough the home’s back door, and planted that book, then called to report someone with books! Everyone would think that it was the fireman that really had them because he gets so close to books everyday so why not let it be the fireman that has books. What a hypocrite he’s made seem. Also I found it interesting that Montag felt bad for Mr. Black’s wife because he was truly hurting about Mildred. That is what I found interesting about this quote.



Pages: 136-144

Quote: “Montag ran. He could feel the Hound, like autumn, come cold and dry...” Page 137

I found this to be interesting again because of the suspense. The sheer excitement that one gets and must read on be it late at night! Montag was running from this new type of mechanical dog, and as one has read mechanical dogs don’t seem very found of Montag the fireman. In fact, as a somewhat of a premonition or a foreshadow if you will, an older version of the mechanical hound had attacked Montag at the fire station even before he committed his crime of keeping books. How would Montag fare against the relentless beast trailing him from afar? That is why this was so interesting to read. The living but non-living, breathing but non-breathing hound was to attack an actually human. Would the technological advancements of that modern time beat an outdated underappreciated human? One can only hope, and read on.


Quote: “ The Hound!......The Hound!.....A deer. Page 144

This was interesting and exciting to read. Montag had dodged many bullets indeed, but one could have assured this to be Montag’s final hour. As one could have guessed that Montag would be caught and inevitably be torn to shreds by the gliding beast swiftly portraying its non visible foot steps toward the way to the prey, it was not so. Not so disappointing it was to read that Montag was not torn to shreds so much as relief that he was very much still alive. So much so that his imagination had blown insects into monsters. He must have been under so much pressure that the mind played such great tricks on him. What tension and stress. Being a fugitive on the run whilst a war went on in the city that he called home for many years. All these factors play the role of which I found this quote to be interesting.

Pages: 145-153

Quote: “Once, long ago, Clarisse had walked here, where he was walking now.”
Page 145

There are several reasons why I found this to be of interest. After such a long time, Montag was still thinking of Clarisse. A protagonist that lived only about 30 pages, but influence lasts the entire novel. She died in a car accident and no one seemed saddened by her death. Montag seemed to be the only who cared. She is the one who set this man’s life into a downward spiral with her philosophical questioning of “why.” However, Montag owes her much for she opened his eyes for him and made him see the world for what it truly was. Montag seemed to care about Clarisse more than about Mildred, his wife. Clarisse was the only one who genuinely spoke to him. For that reason of opening his eyes, she remains remembered after her death in the novel. That is why I found this to be interesting.


Quote: “When we heard you plunging around out in the forest like a drunken elk, we didn’t hide as we usually do.” Page. 147

I found this interesting for some peculiar reasons. The first reason is that when you hear the term homeless person you think of a bum that has no life, no job, nothing, but these men that wonder and have no home are in fact rebels. How demeaning the term home less person must be to them. They actually are awesome rebels. In the beginning I was wondering for what reason might a homeless person have to have to hide “as they usually do”, but now it made perfect sense. They were homeless because they lost it all because of the crimes they commit. I also found interesting how these people knew Montag’s name and accepted him with such kind grace. It seems as thought the only good people in the novel are those by which normal means would be bad people for committing crimes. That is why I found this quote to be of interest.


Pages: 154-165

Quote: “And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for all the things he did.” Page 155

I was stricken by this quote for one reason in particular. I was kind of shocked to hear that he wasn’t sad that he died but for what he did that he will never get back. This makes me think of one of two things. Either he was selfish and only cared that his grandfather would no longer continue to make him his precious toys, or that he is genuinely sad that the lost of this great man has befallen this world. One is left to decide this. This world that is described is really either confused at the thought of emotion or chooses to block it off completely. This world is truly one that doesn’t care about others beside themselves which is why Granger was only sad that his toys that his grandfather made will no longer be manufactured. This also says on more thing. What you do defines how people will look at you and remember you. That is what I found interesting about this quote.

Quote: “City looks like a heap of baking powder. It’s gone.” Page 162

I was stricken by this quote because of several reasons. The first is that I kind of laughed because the people thought that the war wouldn’t last long and there would be no deaths and it turns out that their entire city was blown to bits only after the murder of a wrongfully accused man of being Montag the book keeper!:) It was funny how the entire book revolved around the all purifying flames and then the entire city was burnt to a crisp by the ultimate cleanser, a bomb. I suppose the only true way to purify everything is to start from scratch and that is exactly what happened. The entire city was destroyed and Granger said that it would be rebuilt again like a phoenix rising from its ashes. I also found interesting how after all the burning in the end nothing was purified because the town that had the concept of burning to purify things was destroyed by its own tool. I suppose that there is a lesson to be learned, if you play with fire you are going to get burnt. Beatty was burnt, books were burnt, the entire city was burnt.

Fahrentheit Questions Part 2

Luis Acevedo
Per. 3 Honors English 9


Fahrenheit Questions part 2

26. The last liberal arts college was shut down half a century ago.

27. True, professor Faber thought Montag’s call was some sort of trap.

28. Faber’s fear dissipated when Montag was standing outside his door because he was alone and he had a book in his hand.

29. Montag wanted to learn how to read and understand what he was reading from Faber.

30. True, Faber reminded Montag that people who are having fun are reluctant to be rebels.

31. Montag finally got Faber to consider really helping him when he told him his plan and when he started to rip the bible.

32. True the queen bee analogy emphasized how much of a coward Faber was being safe in his home while Montag did all of the work.

33. The “to” items that were exchanged before Montag left the professor’s house were an earpiece that Faber gave to Montag and the bible that Montag gave to Faber.

34. The volcano’s mouth is the incinerator or furnace.

35. False Montag pulled the plug on the parlor TV’s.

36. True, Faber told Montag to stop what he was doing and when it was too late for him to stop he told him to play it off as a joke.

37. The lady that was affected by the original intent of the poetry was Mrs. Phelps.

38. False, Faber told Montag that he was and idiot for reading the poetry but then consoled him.

39. Listening to Captain Beatty play his harp and needle made Montag very uncomfortable and really nervous.

40. A call to burn some books interrupted the poker game.

41. Captain Beatty drove the Salamander to Montag’s house.