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Fahrenheit 451 Chapter 1 Analysis
“He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the
words to himself. He recognized this as the true state of affairs. He wore his
happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and
there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back”(6).
What simile is Guy making here? Why were Clarisse’s words so powerful?
“the breath coming out the nostrils was so faint it
stirred only the furthest fringes of life, a small leaf, a black feather, a single fiber
of hair”(7).
Montag’s wife has taken a whole bottle of sleeping pills and is barely breathing
when he arrives home. Do you think she intended to kill herself?
“We get these cases nine or ten a night. Got so many, starting a few years ago, we had the special machines built”(8).
The men who respond to Montag’s emergency call to save his wife inform him they
have “nine to ten” drug overdoses a night. What does that say about the general
happiness of society?
Chapter One Part Two Questions:
How did Montag’s wife Mildred recover from her overdose?
Why do you think Montag chooses to let his wife believe she drank too much the
the night before and not tell her the truth?
Montag runs into Clarisse again and she asks him questions that make him start to
question what aspect of his life in particular?
What is the “hound” at the fire station?
What does Montag tell Clarisse he feels toward her?
What happens at the book burning that makes Montag sick?