Notes For Fahrenheit 451

Guy Montag is the main character in the story who undergoes a change in the way he thinks. The way he goes through this change is after meeting a girl named Clarrise. Clarrise's views on society and life helps Montag realize  more things and also makes him think on who he really is. After the question that Clarrise asks him, "Are you happy?" Montag starts to pay attention to things in his life and starts to see things differently.

Montag later starts too see that his relationship with his wife as something he doesnt like. Montag and his wife have really different views on things and have many arguments with each other.

Beatty, the captain of the fire department was and active reader with a lot of knowledge on the situation about the book burning and how society works. He explains to Montag why they burn books for a living which makes Montag uneasy because he was hiding books in his own house.

Vocab List 7

Pratfall: A stupid and humiliating action
She was embarassed by her pratfall but still went on with the show.

Bewilderedly: Completely puzzled or confused
The test question bewildered her completely.

Titilation: A tingling feeling of excitement
Titilation pulsed through her body when she saw presents under the tree

Theremin: A music instrument that makes high pitched sounds
during the horror movie, we heard the theremin play adding effect to the action

Tabloids: A newspaper having pages half the size of those of a standard newspaper, typically popular in style and dominated by headlines, photographs, and sensational storiesHe read through the Tabloids to gain information

Centrifuge: A machine with a rapidly rotating container that applies centrifugal force to its contents, typically to separate fluids of different densities (e.g., cream from milk) or liquids from solids.
The farmers used a centrifuge to make homemade milk

Haltingly: To come to complete stop
The red light caused the car to stop haltingly

Probing: To examine something with an instrument
We began probing new territiory

Stagnant: Dull and boring
The stagnant river layed still with no current or flow.

Cacophony: Harsh mixture of sounds
The cacophany sound of many people talking at once gave me a headache

VOCABULARY FALL LIST 6

Tatters: Pieces of an item or pieces of clothing, torn or ragged clothing
The paper had come off the bottom of the wall and hung there in tatters.

Merely: Only as specified and nothing more; simply:
Some say the report merely confirms common sense.

Vast: Very great in degree, intensity, etc.:
 Adaptation of a vast range of subjects and periods.

Parlor: A room, apartment, or building serving as a place of business for certain businesses or professions:
One pizza parlor now serves triangular pies on triangular platters.

Abrupt: Sudden or unexpected
An abrupt departure.

Refraction: The change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different

Immense: Vast; huge; very great:
An immense territory.

Imperceptible: Something not capable of being perceived by the senses
Changes, when they do occur, come slowly and almost imperceptibly.

Ventilator: An opening or device, such as a fan, used to ventilate a room, building, etc

Olfactory: Of or pertaining to the sense of smell:
 The size and intensity of these sniffs turn out to be important gauges of olfactory ability.

FAHRENHEIT 451

Things learned from the wiki page of Fahrenheit 451 that I think are important to get an understanding of the novel.

• Beatty's explanation of why books are meant to be burned explains that the society is destroying itself and that books had controversial content outdated content. He then explains that the government took advantage and made it so they would censor books by burning them.

• Guy Montags character is someone who is in conflict and doesn't know what to believe in so he believes in what he hears and goes with what he experiences with the lack of knowledge he has

• Beatty who used to be and avid reader and now hates books due to how society and opinions from others has made books seem bad shows how many people in the novel feel that books are taboo

• Clarrise is a character who made made Montag question his life and what he was doing and this is something that started to get Montag thinking on the matter of the book burning

• The exiled book readers showed how people rebelled to the censorship of books and showed Montag another side of books to society