f451 questions part 1

1. Ray Bradbury starts of the novel that way because in his mind he thinks in our society books are burned and so is any sort of free thinking, independent  thought, any sort of happiness. He thinks all personal intelligence is completely  repressed and imprisoned.
2. in the opening scene the books are compared to birds because books are compared to birds because books offer freedom through your thoughts, like birds who are free and have no restraints; Birds are a symbol of freedom. Birds fly wherever they want, and are able to go to heights and distances unknown to people. Books also are able to transport us to other worlds and lands, just by opening the pages and allowing us to digest the stories within. So, by burning the books, they burn not only freedom of thought but also the ability to imagine; They are burning the wings that would allow flight - flight of thought, flight of imagination, of individuality - that books bring to us.
3. Montag's lives in house with his wife and he is a fireman nothing out of the ordinary happens to him. he burns books for a living and he is like all the other fireman's who follow orders and don't ask questions. on the other hand we have Clarisse who is the opposite of Montag. she is a 17 year old girl and we know so far that she doesn't have a job or anything else. we can say she is a crazy girl.
4. the technology in the novel is different from our current technology because our technology is more advanced than the one back then. we don't worry about hold the cable so our t.v can work or of not getting signal because that is why we have technology. in the novel technology doesn't improve the life of montag and Mildred because Mildred spends all of her time in front of the t.v and doesn't spend time with montag.
5. the author introduces montag at this time of his life when he encounters Clarisse and confronts Mildred because the author wants the readers to learn more about montag and how his life is.
6. the author introduces the character of clarisse before Mildred because Mildred represents what is wrong in Montag's life that he is ignorant of the world he is helping to create. Clarisse introduces him to independent thought. Mildred has had little impact on causing change in Montag. Clarisse is a voice, the first real and definitive voice that represents how things should be for Montag.
7. all the houses are all fireproof in this society because it's for the safety of the people and becasue the fireman's job is to burn books they burn the books but the buildings didn't burn. the job of burning were given to the fireman since books were banned and their jobs were unnecessary.
8. Mildred needed emergency service because montag found out that she was in a self induced coma. she took a whole bottle of sleeping pills and the two paramedics used a machine to make her better.
9. The mechanical hound is a machine that is used to hunt down and kill people who have in some way violated the laws of the society. Its purpose in the society is to kill people who break the laws. 
10.  To clarisse talking to people, being around them, getting to know them, and asking questions about the world to start good discussions. So, because she doesn't behave the way that all of the other teenagers behave, she is considered anti-social. She actually enjoys thinking, and not going around smashing things up and never really talking to the people you are doing the smashing with. So, that is why she is considered anti-social; she isn't social in the way that everyone else is.
12. Mildred and Montag hardly know each other, and are not in love with each other. Mildred's focus is on the "parlor family" and does not focus on Montag. They sleep in separate twin beds in the same room, but do not really communicate with each other. They talk to each other, but there is no deep communication as there is when Montag meets Clarisse. It is also very evident that Mildred only cares for herself when she sounds the alarm on her own hvusband for having books in the house and reading poetry to her and her friends.