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Fahrenheit 451 pages 87-92

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  1. gaze
    a long fixed look
    pg. 88 P. 5 lines 4-5
    "He picked them up and wadded the paper under Faber's face."
    Montag has just finished ripping the pages out of the bible and Faber desperately picked them up to save the pages of an almost 'extinct' book.
  2. Aeschylus
    Greek tragedian; the father of Greek tragic drama
    pg. 89 P. 1 line 5
    "That was the year I came to class at the start of the new semester and found only one student to sign up for Drama from Aeschylus to O'Niel.
    Faber is telling Montag of a printer who can help him to understand books. Faber remembered the man because he met him the year this happened.
  3. delinquent
    a young offender
    pg. 89 P. 3 line 2
    "It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents."
    Faber is telling Montag that people are either good or bad and it has always been this way.
  4. bobbin
    a spool around which thread or other material can be wound
    pg. 90 P. 3 line 4
    "... a number of metal tools lay among a welter of microscopic wire-hairs, tiny coils, bobbins, and crystals."
    Montag is about to leave when Faber walks Montag into a chamber in his house containing these items.
  5. cowardice
    the trait of lacking courage
    pg. 90 P. 4 line 2
    "Proof of my terrible cowardice."
    Faber is telling Montag that his chamber is his escape room for have being alone for so long, he comes here and imagines things. which makes him a coward.
  6. drone
    make a monotonous low dull sound
    pg. 91 P. 1 line 2
    "If the drones die, I'm still safe at home, tending my fright with a maximum of confort and a minimum od chance."
    Faber has just showed Montag his seashell radio, and is explaining what he uses it for.
  7. contemptible
    deserving of scorn or disrespect
    pg. 91 P.1 line 5
    "See how safe I play it, how contemptible I am?"
    Faber is letting Montag know how he listens but never tells, and thus is contemptible.
  8. accord
    harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters
    pg.87 P.3 line 6
    "The public itself stopped reading of its own accord."
    Faber is telling Montag that firemen aren't even as necessary as they were before because people just don't read anymore; they have no interest in it.
  9. centrifuge
    an apparatus that separates particles from a suspension
    pg. 87 P.5 line 3
    "Stand back from the centrifuge."
    Faber is advising that Montag stop being like the others who are tearing their lives into pieces with violence.
  10. advantageous
    appropriate for achieving a particular end
    pg. 89 P. 1 line 9
    "And then the Government, seeing how advavtageous it was to have people reading only about passionate lips and the fist in the stomach..."
    Faber is informing Montag that the Government should be at fault for making the people so violent because the writing that they allow to be read is all innapropriate.
Created on Tue Apr 24 18:40:49 EDT 2012

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