Fahrenheit 451 (Chapter 2 Part 1) 41-51

Fahrenheit 451

(Chapter 2 Part 1)

pages 41-51

Reading

• Mildred and Montag are reading books as the chapter begins.

• Montag said the books remind him of Clarisse

• The mechanical hound comes to the door but they ignore it

Mildred on Reading

• Mildred say's "Books aren't people. You read and I look all around, but there isn't anybody."

• "My "family" is people. They tell me things; I laugh, they laugh. And the colors!"

• "Why should I read, what for"

• She is worried about Beatty coming to burn the house and her TVs will be ruined.

Multiple Choice

What's the name of the show that Millie is going to watch with her friends

• The Red Shoes

• The White Clown

• The Yellow Car

Montag's Memory

• Montag realizes that Millie will be no help in understanding the books.

• He remembers meeting a teacher, Faber, in the park a year ago and he looks up his name in his "Future Investigations" file.

Multiple Choice

When Montag calls Faber, he asks him how many copies of are left in the world of _________?

• The Bible

• Shakespeare

• Plato

• All of the above

The Subway Ride

• Montag decides to actually find Faber

• He rides the underground subway carrying the Bible out in the open

• He tries to read fast so that he can memorize the text

• Advertisements are blaring throughout his ride

Multiple Choice

True or False: There's been 5 atomic wars since 2022.

• True

• False

Faber

• He's a retired teacher and refers to himself as a coward

• He said he was one of the "innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen and to the "guilty" but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself

• "When finally they set the structure to burn books using firemen, I grunted a few times and subsided, for there were no others grunting or yelling with me, by then"

Multiple Choice

What does Faber do when he rides the subway?

• Reads

• Plugs his ears

• Tries to Sleep

• Takes Pills

Something's Missing

Montag says "Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me. I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say."

"We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing."

#1: Quality, texture of information

• Faber tells Montag that he's missing 3 pieces of information -

• Books are feared because they record actual life ---

• Faber states that books have pores and the more pores, the more "truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on paper."

• "The good writer touches life often"

  
  

#2: Leisure

• They have no time to think.

• "But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV Parlor? It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth"

#3: Actions

• "The right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interactions of the first two.

• 1. Quality of information

• 2. Leisure time

Multiple Choice

The name of the chapter is called "The Sieve and the Sand" What is a sieve?

• pot

• can

• strainer

• shovel

The Sieve and the Sand

• Montag remembers back when he was a kid on the beach.

• He had a cruel cousin that said he'd give him a dime if he could fill the sieve with sand.

• He remembers crying on the sand on that hot day in July

The Sieve

• He thinks of the sieve as he's on the subway trying to read the Bible

• "The silly thought came to him, if you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve. But he read and the worlds fell through..."

• The sand is the words in the book/knowledge and the sieve is his brain/his memory

The Plan

• Faber says the only way he'll be part of a plan is "if the fireman structure itself could be burnt"

• They are going to print copies of books and plant them in firemen's houses...so that the arsonists are guilty of treason.

• They don't know who else they can trust, but they will try to find old teachers, professors, writers, historians..

The Plan

• Faber says this would only be the beginning since people stopped reading on their own.

• "The whole culture's shot through. The skeleton needs melting and reshaping"

• Faber thinks people are having too much "fun" to go back to reading. Montag should be patient and let the atomic war destroy their current civilization.

The Plan

• Faber considers himself a coward

• He's invented radio transmitter that goes in your ears and the person at home can listen.

• "I'm the Queen Bee, safe in the hive"

• "Do you hate me for this electronic cowardice of mine"

Multiple Choice

True or False: Montag gives Faber the copy of the Bible to keep?

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

How does Montag get Faber to finally agree to help him?

• He started ripping out pages of the Bible

• He starts to call Beatty

• He pulls a gun on him

• He bribes him with money

Poll

Do you think they have a good plan?

• Yes - It's flawless and they will save the books and the world.

• It's good - but risky.

• It's terrible and someone's going to die.