Fahrenheit 451 Chapter 1 And 2 Analysis

In the first section, titled The Hearth and the Salamander, Montag shows perseverance. In this section he meets a teenage girl named Clarisse McClellan. She teaches him that it’s okay to think freely he questions if burning books is the right thing to do. When Montag returns home after meeting Clarisse he finds his wife, Mildred, had overdosed on pills, but she survived. Daily Montag met Clarisse and he got used to seeing her, until she went missing. Later on the firemen have to burn down a book-filled house of an old woman. The old woman cherishes her

“Fahrenheit 451… the temperature at which books burn.” Fahrenheit 451 is a novel posted by Ray Bradbury published in 1953. It portrays a future America where books are banned and “firemen” burn any that are reported and found. Bradbury uses many symbols in this book. Symbolism is portrayed throughout the novel with the hearth and the salamander, the sieve and the sand, and fire.

1. I think Bradbury chose the symbols the phoenix and the salamander because they are both animals associated with fire, a theme in the book. in the book the salamander symbolizes the firemen who burned houses that owned books by starting fires. A salamander is able to survive fires. The phoenix represents the “rebirth” of society. The society began from settings book on fire to people filled with curiosity, Clarisse McClellan and Professor Faber. The phoenix is known for its reincarnation from fire to one’s ashes, like the rebirth of society. Clarisse wasn’t like other people in her society, she was considered “anti-social”, which was actually considered social in her society. She asked questions about things, and was considered crazy because she was curious. “I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.” (Bradbury 69). This quote shows that Clarisse was considered abnormal in her society.

Part One of Fahrenheit 451 is titled “The Hearth and the Salamander”, referring to the floor of a home’s fireplace – the foundation – and the lizard-like amphibian with a fantastical history. These are two very symbolic things to our protagonist, Guy Montag. A career fireman in a futuristic world where books are forbidden and any sign of uniqueness is a sign of illness. Part one seeks to acclimate us to Montag’s disenchanted reality: his job, his house, his wife—and now—their new neighbor, Clarisse. Clarisse is an unorthodox, curious girl who Bradbury often describes her using the moon and various other flora and fauna to

On the way home Montag meets a girl names Clarisse. The quote, “You never wash it off completely” symbolizes the guilt of burning books and houses.

Later in the book, Montag was on the train trying to memorize the bible in fear that he could have the last copy. He was reading as fast as possible hoping that the information in the bible would stay in his mind. An advertisement was making him loose concentration and therefore the information was slipping through his mind. It reminded him of the “Sieve and the Sand” incident from earlier in his life that was so upsetting to him. The modern world in the novel counts on this inability to concentrate. This life without books has encouraged people to live for moment so to speak. Everywhere you go there’s mindless sound such as the advertisement that makes people to be unable concentrate and seriously think. People who can't think are more easily controlled. Montag feel as if banning books has made people's minds turn into sieves unable to hold thought.

In this central passage the author reveals a lesson to be learned. The author isn’t necessarily applying to books in this sentence but he is pertaining to people. A few paragraphs before, Montag tries to read the men’s faces, but one man catches him and says, “don’t judge a book by its cover.” What this man was trying to tell Montag was, don’t judge people by how they look but by how they act. This passage appertains to the story as a whole because through out the whole story Montag had a tendency to judge people by their appearance. For example, when Montag met Clarisse he judged her a bit on her how she looked (it wasn’t clearly stated in that passage, but I used clues from how the author wrote it.) This passage is not only intended for Montag,

In the opening of the book the aspect of fire that we see is the destructive aspect of fire. It is destructive because Montag burns books for a living.

In this scene, Montag is on his way home for the fire station. This scene is right before Montag meets Clarisse. This is important because that’s when his life starts to change because she makes him question society and his actions. Bradbury wants the readers to envision the hissing sound of the train and the air rushing in on Montag. The sound of the letter “s” helps you visualize or picture yourself on a train

The second part of the novel The Sieve and the Sand, is coming from Montag’s childhood memories of trying to fill a sieve with the sand on the beach in order to get a dime from his cousin while crying at the task. He describes this memory to his attempt to read the whole Bible as quick as possible on the subway. In hope that if he reads fast enough, some of the material would stay in his memory. The sand is a symbol of the tangible truth Montag sees, and the sieve the human mind seeking the truth that elusive.

In my English class at Capital High School, we recently read the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and we discussed whether freedom is really free. (1)In this paragraph i'm going to be talking about how freedom is not really free in Fahrenheit 451. I think reading is really good because it will help you ready better. And to learned things you dirent know. You will learned more worlds.

In this situation, devoted firemen that support what they do surround Montag. This puts Montag in a risky place because if any of his actions seem abnormal, his fellow firemen will notice. Out of fear that this will happen, Montag's hand takes charge and crushes the book with passion. Again, every time Montag counteracts his beliefs, created by Clarisse, in his actions, regarding burning books, it chips away at his humanity.

Pain is one way to describe fire in this book for example, “He looked with dismay at the floor. ‘We burnt an old woman with her books’” (49). The woman killed herself for the love of her books she did not wanted to give up on those books so she died with them. Montag feels terrible and puts himself on thought about the ¨old woman with her books¨ also get he starts to have the urge to learn how to read books and why people can’t read them. Even though he loved to burn books because burning them gave him a kind a “pleasure” the thought of the woman burning herself was so powerful that put him thinking

Now at first glance anyone may look at the book and wonder what does Fahrenheit 451 mean? Well Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which paper catches on fire. This is our first glimpse into Ray Bradbury’s dystopian world in Fahrenheit 451. So, this book was originally published in 1953 during World War II and starting the Cold War, which plays a huge role in what this book symbolizes. The author of Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury.

The professor showed Montag that books have details, significance, and are valuable. Through Montag’s encounters with Clarisse, the old woman and Faber, he realizes that the time he had spent burning books was wrong. This persuaded him to change his life.