451 Questions, 20 Answers

1. I suppose that Bradbury chose the title for a chapter " The Hearth and The Salamander" because it was foreshadowing the conflict that would occur throughout the novel. The connection that he wanted to create was a dominant image of the life of Montage.
2.  Some assumptions that the reader can make after reading the lines " It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changing" would be by telling the readers that the Guy Montage (protagonist) was happy that the books could vanish into thin air and how the books can easily be gone.
3. I think he had chosen to characterize a fire hose as a " Great Python" because the fire hose had been chosen to eliminate books. This imagery can be positive if you are referring it to Montage because he was happy to be eliminating books that they really didn't need in the world.
4. The symbolic importance of the number 451 that was inscribed in Montage's  fire helmet is the temperature at which paper burns.
5. The way that Clarisse McClellan was first described as was that when Montage meets her he instantly becomes aware that she is different from other people in his community. This strikes Montage because she is more different than other people he had met because she is so open minded like when communicating towards her family and also to nature.
6. The names "Clarisse" and "Guy " are significant because it shows difference ways on how they are living the way they are today.
7. Clarisse questions Montage in a serious way and the way that  Montage reacts to it was confused because he didn't acknowledge if he was happy or not.
8.  The 3 odd things that we learn are that Clarisse communicates with her family a lot, she is someone who doesn't really use technology because she admires nature more and that she is a person who is open minded.
9. The comparison he makes about Clarisse is that she is happy and beautiful as she even though she is in the darkness because she shines bright no matter what she does.
10.  The thing that Montage realize about himself after Clarisse leaves him the first time is that he realize what was wrong and what was right about his life from burning  the books.
11. Montage wife Mildred uses the seashells to listen to the waves or listening to clam music.
12. The difference between Clarisse and  his first description of Mildred by thinking of what is happening to the world and while he is understanding that their marriage is being strange because Mildred is not being open minded about her husband of what is going through her mind.
13. The machines used on Mildred was something to used to medicine or to cure her from thinking of what happened that made her started to feeling or being open minded towards her self.4.
14. When Montage says "Nobody knows anyone" his epiphany is by starting to feel negative about himself from what Mildred was going through without her telling him about it.
15. The difference between his house and this one is that that house si more bright which it gives light in their home and Montag's house seems to be dead because it's dark and has no light.
16. This statement " I don't anything anymore" signifies a pivotal moment in the text because he started to be thinking and open minded with his thoughts.
17. The reason why Bradbury describe her this way is because she won't have feelings about depression and tries to make her think this world of reality is fine. The conversation between Mildred and Montag reveals about Mildred that she isn't really thinking  straight because she isn't open minded of her actions.
18. The reason why Clarisse visit the psychiatrist is because she is different from other people because she like nature and isn't that really into technology that people use and also because she acts different which makes them believe that she is crazy.
19. The hound is where mechanical Hound which they built machines or robots and the reason why Montage is bothered by the Hound is because they don't like him.
20. The purpose why the old woman wanted to stay, burn and die with her books rather than surrendering is because she wanted to live a life for books because it makes her happy and the way of her thinking and open minded.