Answer to Question #319886 in English for Kelsey Jand

Question

Important Quotations:

For each quotation, explain 1) who said it to whom, when and why, and 2) what does it mean, and 3) how does it apply to the lives of 21st century readers? 

Quote 1: “It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books.”

Quote 2: “I’m one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the ‘guilty,’ but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.”

Quote 3: “These men have been dead a long time, but I know their words point one way or another, to Clarisse.”

Quote 4: Pick any other important quotation that you’d like to analyze

Answer 1

Professor Faber said the words to Montag, when Montag visited Faber at his house. 

It meant that Professor Faber did not take any actions when books were first being banned, hence finds himself guilty

It shows how unconnected readers are in the 21st century. They rarely voice out their opinions.