Context Sentence
heresy
“A man named Latimer said that to a
man named Nicholas Ridley, as they
were being burnt alive at Oxford,
for heresy, on October 16, 1555.”
torrent
“With the brass nozzle in his fists,
with this great python spitting
its venomous kerosene upon
the world, …and his hands were the
hands of some amazing conductor
playing all the symphonies of blazing
and burning …
“And the men with the cigarettes in
their straight-lined mouths…, took up
their load of machine and tube, their
case of liquid melancholy and the
slow dark sludge of nameless stuff,
and strolled out the door.”
“The breath coming out of the nostrils
was so faint it stirred only the
furthest fringes of life, a small leaf, a
black feather, a single fibre of hair.”
“Laughter blew across the mooncoloured lawn from the house of
Clarisse and her father and mother
and the uncle who smiled so quietly
and so earnestly.”
“Light flickered on bits of ruby glass
and on sensitive capillary hairs in the
nylon-brushed nostrils of the creature
that quivered gently, gently, gently,
its eight legs spidered under it on
rubber-padded paws.”
“…the rat, cat, or chicken caught half
across the areaway, gripped in
gentling paws while a four-inch
hollow steel needle plunged down
from the proboscis of the Hound to
inject massive jolts of morphine…
“Were all firemen picked then for
their looks as well as
their proclivities?”
“Don't let the torrent of melancholy
and drear philosophy drown our
world.”
odious
proclivity
proboscis
capillary
earnestly
fringe
melancholy
venomous
Word
“Beatty, Stoneman, and Black ran up
the sidewalk suddenly odious and fat
in their plump fireproof slickers”
Definition
Your original sentence providing context clues
about the word’s meaning
cacophony
“You drowned in music and
pure cacophony.”
Parallel Societies: One feature of a dystopian novel is how strikingly parallel a terrible society can be to our own. The beauty of
learning from a dystopian novel comes from noticing the contrast. In the following chart, cite features of the society in Fahrenheit
451, then explain a related feature of our society, and write a summative statement of what may be the author’s intended purpose.
Feature of Fahrenheit 451 society
1. Mildred never has enough
materially. She is never satisfied:
CD:
“It’ll be even more fun when we can
afford to have the fourth wall installed.
How long you figure before we save up
and get the fourth wall torn out and a
fourth wall-TV put in? It’s only two
thousand dollars?”
2.
3. Mildred is self-centered and only
worries about herself:
Truth from Modern Society
Life lesson revealed by the parallel
1. In our society, the same is true.
Americans are never satisfied. We put
items we can’t afford on credit and spend
the money we do make frivolously. We
often purchase new items, not because we
need them, but because somebody has
them.
1. Mankind should learn to be content with what
they have, or legitimately work for what they
want.
2. In our society, people are so
desensitized to violence that they look at
acts of shocking violence as common
place and not worth reacting to. News
broad casters can glibly report one
atrocity right after another without a
pause.
2.
3.
3.
4.
4. Mankind should stop and smell the roses.
Being busy all the time and seeking nothing but
pleasure leads to a hollow existence and a false
sense of happiness.
CD:
“That favorite subject, Myself. Myself
is easy. I understand that one.”
4.