The ABCs of Fahrenheit 451

By. Jason Nagel

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Alarm

Mildred and her friends called in the alarm on Montag after he read the poem to them.

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Beatty is the fire chief that Montag later sets on fire.

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Clarisse

Clarisse is the girl that Montag meets at night. Clarisse is the girl that makes Montag start thinking about the meaning of books.

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“Dover Beach” is the name of the poem that Montag reads to the women that gets him in a lot of trouble.

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Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes is a book from the bible that Montag memorizes and tells Granger.

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Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature in which books burn. 451 is one of three symbols of the firemen.

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Guy Montag

Guy Montag is the protagonist who burned books but later was chased for saving books.

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Hound

The hound is robot dog that chases people down and injects them with poison.

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Igniter

The igniter is the device in which the firemen used to start the fires. Montag had an igniter with the salamander engraved on it.

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Jonathan Swift

Granger wanted to introduce Montag to Jonathan Swift, the author of the evil political book called Guilliver’s Travels.

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Kerosene

Kerosene is the flammable fluid that Montag used to start the fires and he always smelled of it.

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Leisure to digest the information

The leisure to digest the information is the second quality that books need to be important.

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Mildred

Mildred, Montag’s wife, tells Beatty about the books he was hiding. In the end Mildred leaves Montag and goes to the city.

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Noble

Noble is the president that won the election because of his looks. The women voted for him because he looked better than the other person running for the election.

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Old man Faber

Faber is the ex-English professor that helps Montag. He gave Montag an ear piece so the two of them can communicate when he went and saw Beatty.

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Portable TV

The portable TV is the device Montag used to watch the chase when he was with Granger and the others.

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Quality of information

The quality of information is the first of the three qualities that books need to be important.

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Right to carry out actions

The right to carry out actions is the third of the three qualities that books need to be important.

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Salamander

The salamander is one of the symbols of the firemen. The salamander is to be able to live in fire.

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Thousands

The thousands of houses and books that Montag burned before he found out the meaning of books.

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U.C.L.A

Granger wanted Montag to meet Dr. Simmons from U.C.L.A. He is a specialist in Ortega y Gasset.

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V-2 rocket films

Granger’s grandfather showed him some V-2 rocket films of an atom-bomb mushroom two hundred miles up.

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White Clown

The White Clown is a TV show that Mildred and her friends watched on her TV walls.

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Ex-fireman

Montag became an ex-fireman when he went from burning books to saving books in the end.

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Y couldn’t the people just read the books?

If the people would have read the books in the beginning, the firemen would never have had to burn them.

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Zipper

“The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn.”

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Fahrenheit 451 ABCs