Answer to Question #312284 in English for Kelsey Jand

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Study Guide

Directions: Answer these study guide questions as you read with as much depth as possible. Doing so will force you to stop and think about what is happening in the story and why. These notes are a more structured form of annotation.

Chronological Reading Comprehension Questions:

1. Describe Montag’s escape from the city. Where does he eventually find safety? What are the symbolic implications of the method in which he escapes and flees?

2. What is the significance behind the cable news and radio networks describing Montag’s staged capture? How does this fact feed into the downfall of society?

3. Why does Montag conclude that he can never burn again? What is the life lesson he learns from Granger?

4. Does this novel end in hope or despair? Explain.

Answer 1

1. After escaping from the city, Montag finds safety in the village.
2. Creating wild competition among media organizations for audience share. This, coupled with the profit demand of their corporate ownership, has led to a decline in journalistic standards.
3. Montag means that they never burned the right things. Instead of books, they should have been burning the vacuous superficial world down. They should have been burning the parlors with the big screens; they should have been burning the people in charge of creating this sick world.
4. The novel ends in hope since a reader is energized by the fact that affected protagonist like Montag does smiles at the end of the novel.