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The description of the burning of the house containing books gives an image of the brass nozzle spitting kerosene into the house like a great python spitting venom. The house was in gorging fire burning in the red and yellow fire. This symbolism foreshadows how the firemen enjoy to burn.
2. What is the significance of Montag seeing his reflection in Clarisse�s eyes?
The significance that Montag sees his reflection in Clarisse�s eyes is that he saw his reflection in his wife�s eyes also describing them as moon rock. He describes Clarisse�s eyes as bright water. This is significant because he sees that someone care about him. He recognizes part that she is like her. She thinks about things while people at that time didn't want to think.
3. Clarisse causes Montag to recall a childhood memory in which a wish is embedded. What is the significance of the memory and the wish?
The childhood memory that Montag remembers is sitting with his mother by the candles.
4. What two observations does Clarisse make about Montag�s conversational mannerisms?
Clarisse notices that Montag laughs when she isn�t trying to be funny and he answer right away and never has to think about it.
5. What things do the McClellans do cause them to be classified as peculiar?
The McClellans all gather around and talk at night with lights on in the house.
6. What final question does Clarisse ask Montag on the night of their first encounter? Why might this question be a catalyst to the plot?
The final question which Clarisse asked Montag was if he was happy. This might be a catalyst to the plot because now Montag realizes that he is really not happy in life.
7. When Montag enters his home, he stares at the blank wall but in memory sees Clarisse. What extended simile describes how he sees her? What is significant about the comparison?
�She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of a night when you waken to see the time and see the clock telling you the hour and the minute and the second, with a white silence and a glowing, all certainty and knowing what it had to tell of the night passing swiftly on toward further darkness, but moving also toward a new sun.� The simile is significance because she is being described as a clock. This means that it is time for Montag to think.
8. Find two further similes Montag uses to describe Clarisse. Do the similes serve any purpose other than to characterize Clarisse?
He describes her as different as a sort of hope or funnel he has for his emotions because he talks to her everyday he sees her as his escape. He also says that his eyes are like mirrors. She is also like a watcher of a Marienent show.
9. Describe the bedroom Montag enters. Whom does the setting characterize?
The setting characterizes his wife and she looks stone dead and her eyes like black pearls. The room is like a tomb and she is the dead corpse. There marriage is dead and he realizes that he isn't happy.
10. At this point of realization, what happens to the smile on Montag�s face? What is Montag�s answer to Clarisse�s question?
He finds out that he isnt happy and that he wants to find the truth and he thinks that he hates his job and hates what he does at his job and he now wants to read books.
11. What event occurs that night which provides Montag with an impression of the state of society? What is that impression?
His wife overdoses on sleeping pills because she keeps forgeting that she took pills and he keeps taking pills so she has to get her stomach pumped and her blood stream cleansed.
12. In contrast, what does Montag next hear and long for?
Somebody to love nad make him feel happy and wanted. He wants somebody that is not an idiot like his wife.
13. Describe the new idea for the parlor walls about which Mildred is so excited.
The new idea about the walls was a fire resistant technology so that they could not burn down. The walls were also designed to be pretty.
14. What test of love does Clarisse give Montag, and how does he respond to it?
Clarisse rubs a flower under his chin and if the yellow color rubs off, he is in love. The color does not rubs off. Montag feels frustrated. He says he is in love.
15. Describe Clarisse�s personality.
Clarisse is very friendly and kind. She is not afraid to learn, and to not follow the rules. She is defiant and brave.
16. What observations does Clarisse make about how Montag differs from other firemen?
Montag is different from the other firemen because he is not afraid to learn, and to think. While the others just do what they are told. Also he really listens to Clarisse is more which the regular firemen wouldn't.
17. Describe the mechanical hound.
The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibration, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse. The Mechanical Hound also has a morphine injection. It hums and and has 8 legs. The dogs is evil.