FAHRENHEIT 451
Across
- 4. a scale of temperature where water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees
- 6. the act of legally prohibiting something, or what the government did with books in the story
- 7. the thing that was banned in the novel, or written pages sewn together that you read
- 9. this book takes place in the ______, or ahead in time
- 11. to kill yourself, which Mildred tried to do.
- 12. the last name of the author who wrote Fahrenheit 451
- 13. a person who puts out fires as their job, in the book they actually burn things
- 14. the governing body of a nation, state, or community, or the people who banned the books
- 17. a woman in the story who was killed by the government for her knowledge and free-thinking
- 19. the thing that Faber gives to Montag so they can talk to each other all the time, or the transmission and reception of messages using electromagnetic waves
- 20. main character in the story who is a firefighter and falls into depression
Down
- 1. a device that is held in the arms and sprays fire everywhere, the firefighters burned books with these
- 2. a condition that makes you very sad and low energy, Montag is one
- 3. behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something, there is a lot of this in the book
- 5. the government is _______ to the people and their ideas
- 8. the wife of Montag in the novel who tries to kill herself
- 9. a retired English professor who befriended Montag
- 10. the state that the government was in in the book, or the people in power being dishonest or fraudulent
- 15. something Mildred did with sleeping pills, or too much of a drug
- 16. a machine that burns things that you put in it, Mildred tries to throw Montag's hidden books in here
- 18. part 3 is called burning _______, or giving off lots of light