Fahrenheit 451 Notes #2
pages 20 – 48
20 – TV play: can’t describe it, no actual content
Mildred in denial
22 – contrast to Clarisse, knows he’s not in love, starting to change—tastes the rain 24
24–28: Mechanical Hound—what is it? Why is it “irritated with Montag”
what does Beatty suspect?
29-31 – description of 451 society
32 – oblivious to war
34 – “Firemen of
altered history—Benjamin Franklin, first fireman
book burning scene
36 – “Play the man, Master Ridley;
we shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in
38 – “none of the these books agree with each other”
39 – “You can stop counting . . .”
40 – “A man named Latimer said that
to a man named Nicholas Ridley, as they were being burnt alive at