Burning Bright(Fahrenheit 451) Notes

- Montag gets hit by a car

- Montag is on the run 

- kids come driving down the street as Montag is running and as Montag gives and lay on the floor he realizes its kids chasing him not the police

- the kids where gunna kill him

- Montag thinks these are who killed Clarisse 

- the kids turn around to get another hit at him but Montag hid in the ally

- montag hid a book in a fireman's house while he was away 

- he makes his way to Faber's house 

- Montag gives Faber 100$

- Faber gives him advise for where to run

-Montag is on the news 

-mechanical hound is after him 

-he tried to destroy his sent at Fabor's place so he would get caught

-Montag drenches himself in liquor and puts on Fabor's cloths

- he gets in the river and floats 

- the hound gets to the river and turns around because he no longer smelt him

- he made it to shore

- "To much water! To much land."

-  he ran into some old men around a fire after he had walked a while down a railroad track that lined the river

- they welcomed him happily

- they watch the chase on a portable tv 

- the news people knew they weren't going to find Montag so they saw an innocent man and said he was Montag to keep there viewers watching 

-the hound killed "Montag"

- each person has some literature memorized 

- "... so many pages to a person." 

- " It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touch it into something that's like you after you take your hands away."

- a bomb when off in the city

- montag remembered the book he had tried to memorize

- him and everyone who he was with would walk on and help others 

- they are no better than the rest they keep saying. All they are doing is remembering 

Vocab 11/4

1. ruinous- disastrous or destructive.

- The rain this past weekend was not ruinous.

2. quavered- (of a person's voice) shake or tremble in speaking, typically through nervousness or emotion.

- My voice quavered when I had to say my speech in front of the class.  

3. certitude- absolute certainty or conviction that something is the case.

- The jury's conviction on the defendant was guilty. 

4. notch- an indentation or incision on an edge or surface.

- The notch was at the end of the flashlight we used. 

5. perspired- give out sweat through the pores of the skin as the result of heat, physical exertion, or stress.

- Tommy perspired while he had volleyball practice. 

6. manifested- display or show (a quality or feeling) by one's acts or appearance; demonstrate.

- Sandra manifested her caring side when she volunteered at the hospital. 

7. latrine- a toilet or outhouse, especially a communal one in a camp or barracks.

- There were latrines at my camp I went to in sixth grade. 

8. uttered- make (a sound) with one's voice.

- My mom uttered something under her breath, but I didn't hear it. 

9. parried- ward off (a weapon or attack), especially with a countermove.

- The navy parried while fighting against their enemy.  

10. oracle- a priest or priestess acting as a medium through whom advice or prophecy was sought from the gods in classical antiquity.

- A long time ago there were oracles. 

11.conscious- aware of responding to ones surroundings 

- I was unconsiouse while getting a tooth pulled. 

12.feigning- pretending be be effected by something. 

- She was feigning the words her mom said to her. 

13. Leisurely- relaxed

- I leisurely walked to the fridge on my day off. 

14.conjure- make something appear unexpectedly 

- A witch conjured up a potion. 

15. anesthetized- to administer and anesthetic

- The doctor anesthetized his patient  

16. tyranny- a nation under acruel  oroppressive  government 

- The place were i uses to live was a tyranny. 

17. folly- a lack of good sence

- She had a folly in her homework. 

18. dreary- dull, bleak, and lifeless; depressing.

- While looking out the window I saw a it looked very dreary. 
19. grotesque- 

comically or repulsively ugly or distorted.

- The scene after a car accedent is very grotesque. 

20. reckoning- the action or process of calculating or estimating something.

- The student reckoning the math problem.