English midterm summer Crossword
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2) She fears punishment and cares only about her own comfort. This shows she is shallow, obedient to society, and emotionally fragile.
10) Represents order, leadership, and civilization. Tries to create structure and keep the fire going for rescue12) Represents intelligence, logic, and reason. Physically weak but mentally strong; often ignored14) Represents savagery, violence, the desire for power. Becomes the leader of the hunters and descends into brutality.
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1) Firemen destroy dissenting thought. Beatty claims they keep societal “peace.”
3) In their society, being social means watching screens and avoiding deep thought. Clarisse likes talking, thinking, walking, observing nature—making her “abnormal.”4) Montag’s home is cold, silent, dark, and disconnected. Clarisse’s is bright, warm, full of conversation and human interaction.
5) They mock the smartest boy but respect Ralph and Jack for physical traits. Suggests humans ignore wisdom in favor of strength and charisma.6) Clarisse is thoughtful, curious, observant, and values conversation. Mildred is shallow, distracted, and emotionally empty.
7) She overdosed on sleeping pills.8) It interrupts Montag’s ability to think—the constant noise symbolizes how society prevents real thought.
9) He misses her honesty, curiosity, and ability to make him think. She made him question his own happiness.
11) Ecclesiastes13) Shows their initial hesitation to kill. Foreshadows their growing savagery and loss of innocence.15) Montag cannot fix society alone; he is trapped in a system and his panic is pointless.
16) Montag’s childhood memory: trying to fill a sieve with sand—impossible. Symbolizes trying to grasp knowledge in a distracted world.17) Symbolizes the boys’ fear and the idea that the real “beast” is within the human heart.18) He realizes Beatty manipulated him and may have wanted to die.
19) Jack’s tribe cares only about violence and control—logic and negotiation can’t work anymore.
20) He feels sorrow but also a sick sense of cleansing—destroying the lies he lived with.21) Symbolically, the guilt and destructive nature of his job stick to him—no matter how he tries, he can’t escape what he does.
22) They burn the whole island to smoke him out.
Shows hatred overwhelms reason and survival instincts23) They plan to cut off Ralph’s head and mount it like the pig’s—complete savagery.
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