Fahrenheit 451 Notes #8

151 – how are they books?

Philosophy behind it (don’t want to incite anger)

153 – you can’t make people listen, can’t shove it down their throats, wait until the war is over and they may be ready

“we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important, we mustn’t be pedants; we we’re not to feel superior”

describe Granger’s character, role?

156: Grandfather: “The lawn cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.” Touch things and people, make a difference, make an impact on the world. Granger’s grandfather is still alive in him—his ideas and beliefs

163 - What does the phoenix symbolize? Appropriate symbol? Connection to the book as a whole

war: cities won’t do well, not just Montag’s city, Faber probably okay because mid route at time of bombing

158: “And the war began and ended in that instant”

vision of Mildred: would most of the people even know what hit them? Only those that survive

whole city decimated : “City looks like a heap of baking powder.”

163: symbolism of the phoenix, connection to man

164: strategy for restoration: “We’re remembering”—“we’ll build a mirror factor first” why?

165 – Montag has just remembered some of Ecclesiastes and Revelations, and begins to recite them at the appropriate time

Ecclesiastes “A time to break down, a time to build up . . . “

“tree of life” Revelations: 22

what does this reveal? How does it give us hope?

Why do you think Bradbury has his hero recite verse from the Bible and not another book?