Fahrenheit 451
Cheyenne A. & Hannah Y.
"Fahrenheit 451- the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns..."
The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden.
Censorship
"If you don't want a house built, hide the nails and wood." -pg. 61
Symbolism / Motifs
Fire
"It was a pleasure to burn." -pg. 3
Phoenix
"There was a silly damn bird called a Phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up." -pg. 163
Sieve and Sand
"Once as a child he had sat upon a yellow dune by the sea in the middle of the blue and hot summer day, trying to fill a sieve with sand..." -pg. 78
Epiphany: Beatty wanted to die.
"In the middle of the crying Montag knew it for the truth. Beatty had wanted to die. He had just stood there, not really trying to save himself...How strange..." -pg. 122
Allusion
"Do you know the legend of Hercules and Antaeus, the giant wrestler, whose strength was incredible so long as he stood firmly on the earth? But when he was held, rootless, in midair, by Hercules, he perished easily." -pg. 83
Irony/ Sarcasm
"There is no terror Cassius, in your threats, for I am arm'd so strong in honesty that they pass me in idle an wind, which I respect not!" -pg. 119
Character/ Scene
"Remember Caesar, thou art mortal." -pg. 113