![]() Clarisse arouses Montag's curiosity and begins to help him discover that real happiness has been missing from his life for quite some time.Īfter Montag's encounter with Clarisse, he returns home to find his wife Mildred Montag (Millie) unconscious she is lying on the bed with her Seashell Radios in her ears and has overdosed on tranquilizers and sleeping pills. Nor did Montag know that people could actually talk to one another the governmental use of parlor walls has eliminated the need for casual conversation. For example, Montag never knew that firemen used to fight actual fires or that billboards used to be only 20 feet long. At the same time, she also gives the reader the opportunity to see that the government has dramatically changed what its citizens perceive as their history. Clarisse gives Montag enlightenment she questions him not only about his own personal happiness but also about his occupation and about the fact that he knows little truth about history. When Montag meets Clarisse McClellan, his new vivacious teenage neighbor, he begins to question whether he really is happy. However, the reader quickly notices that everything isn't as Montag wants it to be. When he views himself in the firehouse mirror after a night of burning, he grins "the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame." At first, Montag believes that he is happy. When books and new ideas are available to people, conflict and unhappiness occur. Without ideas, everyone conforms, and as a result, everyone should be happy. Therefore, Montag, along with the other firemen, burn the books to show conformity. Books are not to be read they are to be destroyed without question.įor Montag, "It was a pleasure to burn." The state mandated that all books must burn. As a fireman, Guy Montag is responsible for destroying not only the books he finds, but also the homes in which he finds them. ![]() However, firemen have been given a new occupation they are burners of books and the official censors of the state. In this dystopian (dreadful and oppressive) setting, people race "jet cars" down the roads as a way of terminating stress, "parlor walls" are large screens in every home used dually for entertainment and governmental propaganda, and houses have been fireproofed, thus making the job of firemen, as they are commonly known, obsolete. REMEMBER: The best readers are not the ones who understand the book the first time out-it's the reader who takes the time to monitor his/her comprehension and puts in the time/effort to reread the text.In the first part of Fahrenheit 451, the character Guy Montag, a thirty-year-old fireman in the twenty-fourth century (remember that the novel was written in the early 1950s) is introduced. Each time you reread the section and make an educated guess at what is happening, your comprehension improves. Now, reread the text looking for the answers to your own questions. In the column on the left, list out all of the questions that you had about section. In the column on the right, challenge yourself to write out everything you know happened for sure in that section of the novel (Students often underestimate their comprehension). What Do Know For Sure? What Don't You Know? ChartĪfter reading a solid section of the novel-like a chapter, two chapters, every 20 pages, etc., the student should stop and create a two-column chart on a sheet of paper. Reread them as many times as you need to understand what is happening. Then go back to the sections that confused you. BUT keep reading until you reach a good stopping point, such as the end of a chapter. When you become confused reading a passage, quickly place a Post-it note by this section. Read the novel with a pack of Post-it notes next to you. ![]() If students are struggling to comprehend the book, encourage them not to give up and to use one of the following reading strategies to help them:
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