1. By: Jose Mata Cristina Diaz Claudia Morelos Araceli Rodriguez
The ABCs of Fahrenheit 451
By: Jose Mata
Cristina Diaz
Claudia Morelos
Araceli Rodriguez

2. is for Atomic
The U.S. is using atomic warfare to destroy their enemies and bomb their major cities.

3. is for Benjamin Franklin
In the rules and history of firemen, it says that Benjamin was the first fireman.

4. is for Captain Beatty
Captain Beatty was the antagonist of the story. He is the one that suspected Montag of having books.

5. is for Denham’s Dentifrice
Denham’s Dentifrice is the product being advertised to Montag on the train while he tries to memorize the Bible.

6. is for Emptiness
People have such great emptiness in their heads. They have no comfortable seats to sit and think. People don’t think anymore.

7. is for Flamethrower
The flamethrower is the weapon that Montag used to burn his house and murder Beatty.

8. is for Guy Montag
Guy Montag is the protagonist in the story. He is a Fireman. He’s married to a woman named Mildred.

9. is for Hound
The mechanical Hound is the fire dog. It is what hunts Montag after he murders Beatty.

10. is for Ironic
It’s ironic that firemen before used to put out fires and now they make them.

11. is for Jets
The Jets are foreshadowing that a major world event is about to take place.

12. is for Kerosene
Kerosene is what Montag and the other firemen used to start the fires to burn the books and the houses.

13. is for Law
The police aren’t the main enforcers of the Law. The Firemen are.

14. is for McClellan
Clarisse McClellan is the 17 yr. old girl that got Montag thinking that burning books was the wrong thing to do. Instead they should be reading and writing them.

15. is for Neighbors
Montag’s neighbors all came out to see the fire show that they were about to have at Montag’s house. (They were really watching Montag burning his own house.)

16. is for Overdose
Mildred overdoses on her medicine and almost dies and Montag doesn’t know if it was suicide or an accident because she wasn’t thinking.

17. is for Professor Faber
Professor Faber is the retired English teacher who was helping Montag get though his problem with Beatty at the fire house through a micro-communicator.

18. is for Quick
The “Major War” that was in progress was predicted to be a quick war, a 72 hour war.

19. is for Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury tries to imply that humanity will soon be so dependant on technology that we won’t be able to live without it. He was criticizing that the modern American is too lazy.

20. is for Snake
The snake is the long black tube that was used to suck the poison out of Mildred’s stomach after the overdose.

21. is for Television
Mildred considers the characters in the interactive television as her family and cares more for them than for Montag.

22. is for Urbanization
Urbanization is taking place along the abandoned railroads. They’re developing communities known as Hobo camps.

23. is for Ventilator
The ventilator is the spot where Montag hid the books.

24. is for Women
The women in Fahrenheit 451 would rather have c-sections than give actual birth to their children. Another way they try to make their lives as simple and plain as possible.

25. is for eX-fireman
Montag became an eX-fireman when he was being hunted as a fugitive.

26. is for whY
WhY was the U.S. going to war and what country?

27. is for Zipper
The Zipper is a way that Beatty says how lazy the people of their country have gotten that they can’t even button a shirt they need to use a zipper.

28. The End of the Fahrenheit 451 ABCs