Question

part 3: quote identification (identify who said each quotation.) 23. “kerosene is nothing but perfume to me.” 24. “i’ve got to go see my psychiatrist now. they make me go. i make up things to say. i don’t know what he thinks of me. he says i’m a regular onion! i keep him busy peeling away the layers.” 25. “any man’s insane who thinks he can fool the government and us.” 26. “was – was it always like this? the firehouse, our work? i mean, well, once upon a time...” 27. “she’s nothing to me; she shouldn’t have had books. it was her responsibility, she should’ve thought of that. i hate her. she’s got you going and next thing you know we’ll be out, no house, no job, nothing.” 28. “there must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. you don’t stay for nothing.” 29. “out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.” 30. “not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but every made equal. each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. so! a book is a loaded gun in the house next door. burn it.”

Explanation:

These quotes are from Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Identification is based on knowledge of the characters and their viewpoints in the novel.

1. Guy Montag is a fireman who starts to question his role in burning books and is drawn to the substances related to his work like kerosene in a complex way.
2. Mildred, Montag's wife, is a shallow - minded character who has a strained relationship with her psychiatrist.
3. Beatty, Montag's fire chief, is a pro - censorship character who believes in the power of the government's control.
4. Guy Montag starts to have doubts about his life and work as a fireman.
5. Beatty is angry about the woman who had books and sees her as a threat to their way of life.
6. Guy Montag is intrigued by the idea that there is something valuable in books that would make a woman stay in a burning house.
7. Beatty is explaining the anti - intellectual society's pattern.
8. Beatty is expounding on the government's view of equality and the danger of books.

Answer:

1. Guy Montag
2. Mildred
3. Beatty
4. Guy Montag
5. Beatty
6. Guy Montag
7. Beatty
8. Beatty