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Part 3 F451
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Question | Answer |
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Who was the final informant? | Millie or Mildred, Montag's wife. |
Why did Montag kill a person? | He killed Beatty with a flamethrower because he figured out Montag was communicating with Faber in the earpiece and Beatty threatened to go after Faber. |
Why did't Montag run away before he killed this person? | He was afraid the hound would catch him. |
Where did Montag go after he killed? | To Faber's house (first gets 4 books from behind bushes, stops at gas station to wash up, crosses highway and fingernail gets run over, hides books in former Fireman Blacks house and calls in alarm THEN goes to Faber's house |
When Montag left Faber's house, which direction did he go? | he heads for the river where railroad lines lead to the country |
Why did Montag take whiskey, a suitcase, and some of Faber's dirty clothes with him? | He took them with him to hide his scent. Then he would smell like Faber. |
Montag identified something he saw in his travels as a path to safety . What was it? | the railroad? |
What was different about the fire Montag saw after leaving the river? | It was a warming fire. It was constructive not destructive like the fires that burn something up. |
During the manhunt for Montag, why did the camera identify an innocent man as Montag? | It wanted to make the fireman look good. They faked a capture so they would not look foolish to the tv audience. |
What was unique about the hobos Montag met? | They were intellectuals, harvard graduates, clean and tidy, most professors, literary scholars. |
How were these men preserving literature? | They are "Libraries." They memorize books so they can eventually write them down again. They pass the information on to their children. |
What literature did Montag preserve? | Book of Ecclesiastes, book with the lilies |
What happened during the war? | bombs were dropped on the city. City is reduced to dust. |
What did Montag and the intellectuals believe their mission to be once the war was ended? | Remember the books, make sure war doesn't happen again. |
Significance of the phoenix | The phoenix is a mythical bird that rises up from the ashes every 1000 years and reincarnates. Man is kind of like that but can remember and learn from mistakes so maybe people won't kill themselves in the future. |