venomous / “With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world / Belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious doctrine; opinion profoundly at odds with what is generally accepted
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melancholy / “And the men with the cigarettes in their straight-lined mouths…, took up their load of machine and tube, their case of liquid melancholyand the
slow dark sludge of nameless stuff, and strolled out the door.” / The nose of a mammal such as the trunk of an elephant; an elongated sucking mouthpart that is typically tubular and flexible in insects
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fringe / “The breath coming out of the nostrils was so faint it stirred only the furthestfringesof life, a small leaf, a black feather, a single fibre of hair.” / Minute (extremely tiny) blood vessels between the terminations of the arteries and the beginnings of the veins; a tube that has an internal diameter of hair-like thinness
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earnestly / “Laughter blew across the moon-coloured lawn from the house of Clarisse and her father and mother and the uncle who smiled so quietly and soearnestly.” / Profound sadness, typically with no obvious cause
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capillary / “Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitivecapillaryhairs in the nylon-brushed nostrils of the creature that quivered gently, gently, gently, its eight legs spidered under it on rubber-padded paws.” / Capable of putting poison into another body usually by biting or stinging; expressing strong hatred or anger
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proboscis / “…the rat, cat, or chicken caught half across the areaway, gripped in gentling paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from theproboscisof the Hound to inject massive jolts of morphine… / A strong and fast-moving stream of water or liquid; a sudden, violent and copious outpouring of something (usually words or feelings)
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proclivity / “Were all firemen picked then for their looks as well as theirproclivities?” / A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds such as hoots, cackles and wails.
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heresy / “A man named Latimer said that to a man named Nicholas Ridley, as they were being burnt alive at Oxford, forheresy, on October 16, 1555.” / Extremely unpleasant; repulsive
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torrent / “Don't let thetorrentof melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world.” / Something or someone at the extreme edge; border on fabric or other material
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odious / “Beatty, Stoneman, and Black ran up the sidewalk suddenly odious and fat in their plump fireproof slickers” / Serious in intention, purpose or effort; showing depth and sincerity of feeling
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cacophony / “You drowned in music and pure cacophony.” / A strong natural liking for something that is usually bad; a natural tendency to like something
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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 society1. Mildred never has enough materially. She is never satisfied:
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“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? / A Perceived Truth from Modern Society
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. / Life lesson revealed by the parallel
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.