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Burning for Books

The Society

Clarisse McClellan

Book Basics

Who is the protagonist and from what

point of view is the novel told?

Theme 1 Prompt 100 Points

Theme 1 Response 100 Points

Guy Montag

3rd person point of view

Theme 1 Prompt 200 Points

What is the genre?

Science fiction

Theme 1 Response 200 Points

Theme 1 Prompt 300 Points

Who was the first fireman?

Theme 1 Response 300 Points

Benjamin Franklin

What is the significance of the novel’s

title?

Theme 1 Prompt 400 Points

It’s the temperature at which paper

burns

Theme 1 Response 400 Points

What is the role of a fireman in this

society?

Theme 1 Prompt 500 Points

To burn books

Theme 1 Response 500 Points

How does Clarisse describe herself

when she first meets Montag?

{Hint: “I’m__ and _______”}

Theme 2 Prompt 100 Points

Theme 2 Response 100 Points

“I’m 17 and crazy.”

Theme 2 Prompt 200 Points

Why is Clarisse forced to see a

psychiatrist?

She is different from society because

she believes knowledge is power.

Society considers her “anti-social.”

Theme 2 Response 200 Points

Theme 2 Prompt 300 Points

What question does Clarisse ask

Montag that changes his world?

Theme 2 Response 300 Points

“Are you happy?”

What happens to Clarisse?

Be specific!

Theme 2 Prompt 400 Points

She gets hit and killed by a car

Theme 2 Response 400 Points

How many of Clarisse’s friends have

died and how were they killed?

Theme 2 Prompt 500 Points

16 of her friends have died. They

were killed in car crashes or by being

shot.

Society is violent!

Theme 2 Response 500 Points

Give 1 example of what happens in

school and 1 example of what students

do for fun

Theme 3 Prompt 100 Points

Theme 3 Response 100 Points

Students don’t ask questions. They

take movie and television classes.

The art is all abstract. For fun, they

wreck cars, torture animals and go

to “fun parks.”

Theme 3 Prompt 200 Points

How do we know which books are

banned?

The firehouse has a list of them.

There are around 1 million titles

posted.

Theme 3 Response 200 Points

Theme 3 Prompt 300 Points

List 2 specific reasons why Beatty

tells us books were banned. Did the

government start the book ban?

Theme 3 Response 300 Points

Faster paced technology became more popular.

Books started to “look the same” because of

competition. Minorities were offended by some

content. Censorship started with the PEOPLE!

They just stopped reading.

When Mildred overdoses, who comes

to help and what does this say about

society’s take on life?

Theme 3 Prompt 400 Points

2 hospital workers use a special

device to remove the poison and

replace it with new blood. They

created this special machine because

there are so many suicide attempts.

People don’t value life

Theme 3 Response 400 Points

How do you know that society values

a faster pace. Give 2 examples

**Hint: they have to do with roads!**

Theme 3 Prompt 500 Points

Billboards had to be made bigger

because people were driving so fast

they couldn’t read them. It’s also

illegal to be a pedestrian

Theme 3 Response 500 Points

What did Montag take from the old

lady’s home?

Theme 4 Prompt 100 Points

Theme 4 Response 100 Points

A book

Theme 4 Prompt 200 Points

Who lit the match that burned the old

lady’s home and why were her last

words so important?

She did! The lady was quoting an

Englishman who had burned at the

stake for his beliefs. That shows that

she planned on burning with her books

to prove a point

Theme 4 Response 200 Points

Theme 4 Prompt 300 Points

What do we learn about Beatty and his

relationship with books after the fire?

Theme 4 Response 300 Points

He has read before

Why is this fire different from all the

rest?

Be specific!

Theme 4 Prompt 400 Points

Normally, the police come to the suspects house

and arrest him/her. Then the firemen are called in

to burn the books. But this time – the lady was

home.

Theme 4 Response 400 Points

After the fire, when Montag is sick at

home, does Beatty know that he has a

book hidden behind his pillow? Give

an example to support

Theme 4 Prompt 500 Points

Yes! Bradbury tells us that Beatty just

“pretends not to notice.”

Theme 4 Response 500 Points

What does Montag think is going on

with the mechanical hound?

Theme 5 Prompt 100 Points

Theme 5 Response 100 Points

He thinks someone in the fire

department programmed it to attack

him

Theme 5 Prompt 200 Points

Why does Montag keep referring to

his ventilator?

He has about 20 books hidden up there

Theme 5 Response 200 Points

Theme 5 Prompt 300 Points

Did Clarisse’s encounter with Guy

make him start stealing books?

Theme 5 Response 300 Points

No! He’s had them for a long time

Give 3 examples that the relationship between

Montag and Mildred is rocky

Theme 5 Prompt 400 Points

They sleep in separate beds. Montag compares Mildred to

a preying mantis. Mildred doesn’t help Montag hide the

book when Beatty arrives. When Montag vomits,

Mildred is more concerned about her dirty rug. Montag

says he wouldn’t cry if Mildred died. The two cannot

remember how they first met.

.

Theme 5 Response 400 Points

At the end of “The Hearth and the

Salamander” what does Montag plan

to do with his books?

Theme 5 Prompt 500 Points

Read through them – with help from

Mildred- to try and find something

valuable on the pages. Then, he can

share the information with others.

Theme 5 Response 500 Points

Final Jeopardy!

Who says this quote and what does the character mean:

“We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal. . . . A book is a loaded gun in the house next

door. Burn it.”

Captain Beatty!

Beatty believes that everyone in society should be intellectually the same – like carbon copies. He says that knowledge is evil and books are morbid because they contain dead thoughts by dead authors. This is why society idolizes fire. There are no funerals – the dead are quickly forgotten and burned in the incinerator. “Fire is bright and fire is clean.”