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Download Block 1 Embedded Quote Examples Original Quotation ... and more Summaries History in PDF only on Docsity! Block 1 Embedded Quote Examples Original Quotation (Citation) Embedded Quotation It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history (Bradbury 1). Up until he met Clarisse, Montag loved his job. His passion for his work made him feel like he had “the hands of some amazing conductor” (Bradbury 1) of a symphony. It was a pleasure to burn (Bradbury 1). Firemen in this society found it “a pleasure to burn” (Bradbury 1) away all that previous generations had built. “I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly,” she said (Bradbury 6). People in this society fail to recognize the beautiful things around them “because they never seem them slowly” (Bradbury 6). He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back (Bradbury 9). Life as a fireman who helped to control the society around him allowed Montag to wear “his happiness like a mask” (Bradley 9). Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide- eyed, toward morning. There had been no night in the last two years ths Mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly gone down in it for a third time (Bradbury 10). Because of the way she closed herself off to the world with her parlor walls and seashell ear thimbles, “the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound” (Bradbury 10). You don’t need an M.D., case like this; all you need is two handymen, clean up the problem in half an hour. . . . Call if you need us again. Keep her quiet. We got a contrasedative in her. She’ll wake up hungry. So long (Bradbury 13). Overdosing on pills has become so commonplace that even individuals without medical expertise are able to “clean up the problem in half an hour” (Bradbury 13). Someone else just jumped off the cap of a pillbox (Bradbury 13). People who have “jumped off the cap of a pillbox” (Bradbury 13) are at the mercy of machine operators who clean out the poisons they’ve ingested. At nine in the morning, Mildred’s bed was empty. Montag got up quickly, his heart pumping, and ran down the hall and stopped at the kitchen door (Bradbury 15). Because of stress of the prior evening, Montag feels “his heart pumping” (Bradbury 15) with anxiety. They want to know what I do with all my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won’t tell them what. I’ve got them running (Bradbury 20). Anyone who will “just sit and think” (Bradbury 20) would set off alarms in the minds of others; such behavior would be considered abnormal. How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can’t get over it. (Bradbury 21). The way Clarisse talks to Montag almost seems like she is “so much older at times.” (Bradbury 21). Five, six, seven days. And, then Clarisse was gone. He didn't know what there was about the afternoon, but it was not seeing her somewhere in the world (Bradbury 29). Days were passing faster and faster and Montag was at dis-ease. It was “not seeing her somewhere in the world” (Bradbury 29) that put him on edge. How did it start? How did you get into it? How did you pick your work and how did you happen to think to take the job you have? You’re not like the others. I’ve seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night (Bradbury 21). Clarisse is fascinated by Montag because he is “not like the others” (Bradbury 21) And, then. Clarisse was gone. He didn’t know what there was about the afternoon, but it was not seeing her somewhere in the world. The lawn was empty, the trees empty, the street empty, and while at first he did not even know he missed her or was even looking for her, the fact was that by the time he reached the subway, there were vague stirrings of dis-ease in him (Bradley 29). “Not seeing her somewhere in the world” (Bradbury 29) had a negative effect on Montag’s attitude. Montag had done nothing. His hand had done it all, his hand, with a brain of its own, with a conscience and a curiosity in each trembling finger, had turned thief. Now, it plunged the book back under his arm, pressed it tight to sweating armpit, rushed out empty, with a magician’s flourish (Bradbury 35)! Anyone “with a conscience and a curiosity in each trembling finger” (Bradbury 35) lived in fear of what the firemen might do. The sight of it rushed the men out and down away from the house. Captain Beatty, keeping his dignity, backed slowly through the front door, his pink face burnt and shiy from a thousand fires and night excitements… The pink face of Beatty now showed the faintest panic in the door. The woman’s hand twitched on the single matchstick. The fumes of kerosene bloomed up about her. Montag felt the hidden book pound like a heart against his chest (Bradbury 36-37). After witnessing the woman die with her books, Montag “felt the hidden book pound like a heart against his chest” (Bradbury 37) harder than ever before. The woman on the porch reached out with contempt to them all, and struck the kitchen match against the railing (Bradbury 37). Fully believing in what she felt was the right thing to do, the woman showed her “contempt to them all” (Bradbury 37) by light herself on fire along with her books. And suddenly she was so strange he couldnʻt believe he knew her at all. He was in someone else’s house, like those other jokes people told of the gentleman, drunk, coming home late late at night, unlocking the wrong door, entering a wrong room, and bedding with a stranger and getting up early and going to work and neither of them the wiser (Bradbury 39-40). Mildred and Montag had become so removed from one another that he “couldnʻt believe he knew her at all.” (Bradbury 39). How do you get so empty? Who takes it from what you (Bradbury 41)? People “get so empty” (Bradbury 41) because of the way they live their lives so quickly; they have no time to ponder what’s important. When they stepped out of the car, she had the Seashells stuffed in her ears. Silence. Only the wind blowing softly. “Mildred.” He stirred in bed. He reached over and pulled the tiny musical insect out of her ear. “Mildred. Mildred (Bradbury 43)?” Mildred is not in tune to what is around her because she always has the seashells in her ears so Montag pulls it out to talk to her. “He reached over and pulled the tiny musical insect out of her ear.” Block 4 Embedded Quote Examples Original Quotation (Citation) Embedded Quotation It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed (Bradbury 1). Firemen wanted “to see things eaten” (Bradbury 1) by the word of their own hands. With the brass nozzle in his fist, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history (Bradbury 1). Montag loves the sound of burning books and compares them to the sound of “symphonies of blazing and burning.” (Bradbury 1) The autumn leaves blew over the moon light pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward (Bradbury 3). As she was “letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward”, she seemed to have a fixed sliding walk (Bradbury 3) It was not the hysterical light of electricity but-what (Bradbury 5)? The way Clarisse looked at Montag made him feel like he had been hit with the “hysterical light of electricity” (Bradbury 5). I sometimes think drivers don't know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly (Bradbury 6). The things that make the world beautiful are missed by everyone because “they never seem them slowly” (Bradbury 6). He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin (Bradbury 9). Montag’s interactions with Clarisse have made his “smile slide away” (Bradbury 9). He felt his chest chopped down and split apart (Bradbury 11). Upon discovering his wife had taken more sleeping pills than she should have, Montang “felt his chest chopped down and split apart” (Bradbury 11). If it rubs off, it means I’m in love (Bradbury 19). Clarisse makes a dandelion mean more than anything before telling Montag it showed love only “if it rubs off” (Bradbury 19). I’ve got them running (Bradbury 20). Being the clever girl she is, Clarisse plays with the psychiatrists she must visit and has “got them running” (Bradbury 20). He felt his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a not trembling, the two halves grinding one upon the other (Bradbury 21). After talking to Clarisse there was “a trembling and a not trembling” that came over him which shook him but left him perfectly fine. (Bradbury 21) He felt his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a not trembling, the two halves grinding one upon the other (Bradbury 21). Montag now found that there were “two halves grinding one upon the other” (Bradbury 21) within him. And then, very slowly, as he walked, he titled his head back in the rain, for just a few moments, and opened his mouth (Bradbury 21). If he had “tilted his head back in the rain” (Bradbury 21) in the company of others, they would have likely shunned him for being weird. I’m antisocial they say (Bradbury 27). Bradbury is implying that Clarisse is not like other people. Sometimes I’m ancient (Bradbury 27). Because she believes in the values of the past, Clarisse says “Sometimes, I’m ancient” (Bradbury 27). Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays (Bradbury 27)? Montag is bothered by “how people hurt each other” (Bradbury 27) purely for entertainment. For it would be the dying of an unknown, a street face, a newpaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman, while the hungry snake made her still more empty (Bradbury 41). Over the years, Mildred had become “an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image” (Bradbury 41) to her own husband. I’m so mad I could spit (Bradbury 42). Montag wants to get rid of the living room walls and is really mad that Mildred is always watching them. Let’s do it (Bradbury 42). Montag pleads with his wife to take action and tells her, “Let’s do it” (Bradbury 42). When they stepped out of the car, she had the Seashells stuffed in her ears (Bradbury 43). Mildred and others like her kept “the Seashells stuffed in [their] ears” (Bradbury 43) in order to block out whatever pain they might be feeling.