20 Questions

1. The hearth is a fireplace and the salamander are what the firemen named their trucks by.
2. In the lines of page 1, the reader can make the assumption that Guy Montag is obsessed with fire. He likes watching things burn in ashes, where there’s nothing.
3. The imagery that is given to the fire hose has a negative imagery to the reader that the fire hose has a bad role in the plot. The author wants you to memorize the fire hose.
4. Montag's fire-helmet is the number 451 which symbols at the temperature in what books burn.
5. Clarisse McClellan is described as "slender and milk-white" with the look of curiosity.
6. Clarisse and Guy are both the main characters in the story.
7. She questions Montag with sudden questions and keeps going. Montag doesn't have time answer because he over thinks each question and doesn't have a conclusion.
8. People drive so fast that they recognize blurs as objects. Clarisse's uncle got arrested because he was only going at 40 miles an hours. Another thing is that billboards are stretched out in order of it to be read and long lasting. Clarisse's uncle was also arrested for being a pedestrian.
9. The comparisons that Montag makes of Clarisse are the clock and a mirror. The clock because she knew so much of the bad society and keeps moving along with it. The mirror because she reflect in what Montag seems to be but his inner self isn't. She made himself question by asking with he was happy. Montage didn't find that answer to himself either.
10. Montag realizes that he isn't happy as if he was wearing a mask.
11. The "Seashells" are earbuds. Mildred listening to the ocean which she hasn't been there in person.
12. The reference to her face seems as if she's paralyzed, controlled. In Mildred's face, there was no sign of hope just darkness, emptiness. She didn't care whether if she was breathing or not. Their marriage isn't happy and loving; its darkness.
13. There was two machines: one looking like a long pipe that goes down the throat and the another replaces the old blood with the new blood. The operator didn't seem to care as he smokes a cigarette in the middle of a medical process. The men weren't even doctors but they did have people calling in from overdosing on sleeping pills.
14. The comment what to the fact that stranger came to his house and took Mildred's blood out and he hadn't seen those men ever in his life.
15. In Clarisse's house there is more happiness and in Montag's there's depressing, sadness, loneliness. Clarisse's house was lit and the other houses were asleep in the darkness of their daily routines.
16. Montag wants to be happy to see that Clarisse is happy with her family and he isn't. He doesn't want to live those seconds. He takes a sleeping tablet in order for him to go to sleep.
17.  Mildred doesn't remember anything but she does say that she feels like she has a hangover of a wild party. When Montag explains to her that she has overdosed, she denied it and went on with her life.
18. The psychiatrist asks Clarisse what she does in her free time.
19. The Mechanical Hound was like a robotic dog. Montag was bothered by the Hound because it always seem to attack him, as if it were to have some sort of hatred towards him.
20. The woman had said a few lines in the beginning as they walked in. She made a reference to Latimer who was burned alive for the opinion he stood for. The woman would rather die than live in the society that doesn't contain books, knowledge.
21. The youth practices as going to school. They are tired by the end of the day that they either go to bed of have to bully other people at parks. They run street races and do what ever they want. Their  parents aren't strict as they were to Clarisse when she misbehaved. The killings from one another have go up. There could be tons of people and they'll just talk about the same thing over and over again.
22. The people are put into an asylum but the firemen think there's crazy for having books.
23. Benjamin Franklin built the union of firefighters in the US.
24. He compares the books to the white pigeons because the words of knowledge are pure.
25. He read a line from the book and took the book with him, hiding it. He just did it not thinking, out of curiosity.
26. Beatty knows about the burning of Lamiter and he did research himself.
27. She had been on her seashells listening to people from far away places.
28. The parlor walls were for Mildred for her to talk to her relatives. If everyone has parlor walls, then nobody gets together for a reunion anymore.
29. Mildred was so busy with herself that she forgot something important as Clarisse's death.
30. Mildred didn't seem to care about the death of the woman because she wasn't related to Mildred. That it was her fault in why she had died the way she died. Montag was angry because he hadn't though thoroughly about what he was doing for a living. He was being reasonable about how an author expressed his thoughts and feelings for it just to become history under a fire.