1. Fahrenheit 451
Symbolism

2. Hearth
Fireplace
Represents home and family

3. Any of various small lizard like amphibians of the order Caudata, having porous scale less skin and four, often weak or rudimentary legs.
A mythical creature, generally resembling a lizard, believed capable of living in or withstanding fire.
In the occult philosophy of Paracelsus, a being having fire as its element.
An object, such as a poker, used in fire or capable of withstanding heat.
A mass of solidified material, largely metallic, left in a blast-furnace hearth.
A portable stove used to heat or dry buildings under construction.
salamander

4. A bird in Egyptian mythology that lived in the desert for 500 years and then consumed itself by fire, later to rise renewed from its ashes.
A person or thing of unsurpassed excellence or beauty; a paragon.
A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor.
phoenix

5. FIRE
Instant “cure” for wrongs
Panacea for all problems

6. Clarisse
Individuality
Spirit of the individual
“Anti-social”

7. Poisoned, replaceable blood
Empty lifelessness of countless others like Mildred

8. Mildred
Conformity
Loss of spirit – remember when she tried to commit suicide

9. Parlor Walls
TV = life control

10. Mechanical Hound Shape and actions reflect the society
Threat of technology and progress

11. Centrifuge Life’s speed slinging out unimportant
information – separating the accepted and
unaccepted
Stand back from it or you will be hurt – don’t get involved

12. A utensil of wire mesh or closely perforated metal, used for straining, sifting, ricing, or puréeing.
Our brains can’t hold everything
sieve

13. Beatty “the man” – government’s hand Pessimism Cynicism
For him, books are contradictory and confusing for people

14. Faber
Intellectualism
Calls himself a coward

15. Self reflection
Mirror

16. Granger
Intellectualism
Realistic hope

17. Montag
Hope for a new beginning
Goes from fireman to book person