Fahrenheit 451 pgs. 154-165

Q. Ask a question.
A. Why was there a war going on? What was it about, & why did it end so quick?

Q. What does Montag mean when he says, “And when they ask us what we are doing , you can say, We’re remembering” ? Why is this quote important? How does it fit into the novel, what is Bradbury trying to say with this?
A. I think what Montag means is that you have to remember what has happened in the past, in the present, or what's even going to happen in the future. You also can't erase what has already happened. You have to live with the consequences of what you caused. I think this fits perfectly into this novel, because it teaches us to always be aware. You can't let life pass by without knowing you want something to happen a certain way. You won't have the opportunity to turn back time and redo what you did. You have to live by what has happened.

Fahrenheit 451 pgs. 138-154

Q. Write one or more questions that you have. Don't just say "I don't get it." Ask a specific question about what is happening in the story.
A. I don't have any questions for this part of the story.

Q. How has Montag changed from the beginning of the novel to this part? In writing about this you might want to notice that the environment has changed from the city to nature. Is this a coincidence or is the author trying to say something by contrasting the city to nature in relation to the ways Montag has changed.
A. Montag has changed in many different ways. In the beginning of the book, he seemed like he was following the crowd. He couldn't be himself. Meaning that he couldn't express himself without being judged, or punished. But now, he's very open. He's very different. He can be what he wants to be, and do whatever he wants to do. Montag is more free now. The environment has also changed in relation to the way Montag has changed. I think what the author is trying to say is that in the beginning, Montag lived in the city, where he was secluded. But when he got into the life of nature, he was able to be free.

Fahrenheit 451 pgs. 125-137

Q. Find a line from the story or a paragraph that you like and explain why you like it.
A. "He could feel the Hound, like autumn, some cold and dry and swift, like a wind that didn't stir grass, that didn't jaw windows or disturb leaf shadows on the white sidewalks as it passed. The Hound did not touch the world. It carried it's silence with it, so you could feel the silence building up a pressure behind you all across town. Montag felt that pressure rising, and ran." I chose this part in section that I read because the way that the author described the Hound was very descriptive, and he used alot of powerful adjectives that made the Hound sound not like just a robotic dog, but as something that feels real.

Fahrenheit 451 pgs. 110-125

Q. Summarize what happens in one or two sentences.
A. What happened is that Beatty led Montag to his own house, which was next to be burned down. Beatty knew about the books that he had stored. The hound dog had been snooping around his home. Mildred also ran away. She had called a cab, and had left right when Montag came. Montag burned down his house, and he was so angry, that he threw a flame thrower, and he lit Beatty on fire. Beatty dies, and Montag becomes a fugitive. He tries to make it to Faber's house.

Q. On your blog, copy down one sentence from this reading selection that strikes you as particularly descriptive. Which of the 5 senses does it appeal to? What verbs, adjectives, or figurative language are used and why are they effective in describing a certain action, person, or thing?
A. "It made a single leap into the air, coming down at Montag from three feet over his head, it's spidered legs reaching, the procaine needles snapping out it's angry tooth. Montag caught it with a bloom of fire, a single wondrous blossom that curled in petals of yellow and blue and orange about the metal dog, clad it in a new covering as it slammed into Montag and threw him ten feet back against the bole of a tree, taking the flame gun with him."
I chose this passage because it stuck out. I liked the many adjectives and verbs that were used. For example, "a bloom of fire, a single wondrous blossom that curled petals of yellow and blue and orange about the metal dog." That was very descriptive. While I was reading this, I could actually feel the hound jump on me, like how it did to Montag. I felt how hard it hit, that it would actually throw a person ten feet back against a tree.

Fahrenheit 451 pgs. 91-110

It's nothing I'm really confused about, I'm just wondering why Montag's house would be the next to get burned down?

Q. Give a very short (1-3 sentence) summary of the two main scenes in this section. The first scence was at home in the living room and the second scene was in the fire house with Beatty.
A. The first scene at home in the living room was with Mildred and her friends. Montag came home, and he found the girls in the parlor. They start talking, and Montag takes out the book that he stole, and reads out a poem.
In the second scene, in the fire house with Beatty, Montag and the firemen play a game of cards, and they talk about books, and the effects. Then the sirens go off. So they get into the Salamander, which I think is the firetruck, and they Montag finds that the next house that is going to get burned down, was his own.

Q. Find a sentence or two that has strong adjectives and/or verbs. Quote the book and explain why these are strong descriptive words and why they are effective. How do they appeal to the senses? What mental images do they invoke?
A. "In Beatty's sight, Montag felt the guilt of his hands. His fingers were like ferrets that had done some evil and now never rested, always stirred and picked and hid in pockets, moving from under Beatty's alchohol-flame stare. If Beatty so much as breathed on them, Montag felt that his hands might wither, turn over on their sides, and never be shocked to life again; they would be buried the rest of his life in his coat sleeves, forgotten."
I chose these sentences because I thought they were very descriptive. They used alot of strong adjectives to describe what Montag was feeling at that moment. They are very affective because the more adjectives and verbs that were put into this, the more I could picture what was going on in the scene.
When they say "His fingers were like ferrets that had done some evil and now never rested, always stirred and picked and his in pockets" I thought this was very descriptive. I could feel Montag's fears, his hands shaking. I could really picture this in my mind.

Descriptive Paragraph

Something I like to do

This musical instrument awaits me everyday, waiting to be played. Under it's trance I have this powerful urge to play it. So, I clutch it, and i set it on my lap. I plug the cord into this big black box that exerts the music 100x it's original sound. I brace myself. I soon find my fingertips on the strings, and my other hand on a pick. I shift from chord to chord, strumming. I could play my guitar for hours and hours.

Fahrenheit 451 pgs. 81-91

Q. Write a question. What are you confused about?
A. What was the little Seashell Radio that Faber had? & What was it used for?

Q. A. According to Faber, “three things are missing” from the popular media (like the “parlor games) of his society. Write what they are and explain what he means.
A. The three things that were missing from popular media, were :
1. Quality of Information ; I think what he means is that in a book, there are many qualities. Like some of the examples he lists, like a book has features. I think what this means is that a book has to have certain standards for it to be good.
2. Leisure to Digest ; I think what he means is that people should make time for themselves to take time to enjoy the world around them.
3. The right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two ; I think this one is pretty self explanitory. You have to be able to do the first two in order to do overcome what you want to do.

Fahrenheit 451 pgs. 68-80

Q. Write a question about the reading. What are you confused about? If you don't get an answer on your blog, be sure to raise the question in class. Even if you do get an answer, and you think it's a good question with a good answer, bring it up in discussion.
A. Who's the Professor, Faber? Is he a character that will be played out more throughout the book, or is he just someone who gets mentioned in that short scene?

Q. What does Montag mean when he says that books "point, one way or another, to Clarisse?"
A. I think what Montag means is that you can take one way, or the other. The route, where you get pursuaded by a book. You believe you can express yourself in any way you want to make you happy. Live your life the way you want to live it. Be different. Or you can take the other route, where you feel secluded, and feel unable, and you feel as if you're under a watchful eye. Dull and boring.

Fahrenheit 451 pgs. 40-68

Q. Captain Beatty tells Montag that firemen are the “happiness boys” and that they are custodians of “our piece of mind.” Why does he say this? Be sure to include the problem with minority opinions, individual thought, and the historical conditions that made this possible. Use quotations and other evidence from the
text in your response.
A. I think Captain Beatty is trying to pursuade Montag that firemen are the good guys, they're the ones keeping civilization going. They better feed people's minds by taking the good out of reading books. He says this by saying "Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping. Burn the book." I think Captain Beatty is under the impression that reading books, other people's thoughts and deas, feelings and personal time, put onto paper, he thinks that's a way of brain washing people's minds and making them become ignorant and disturbed at the world.
He also says "Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it! Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?" Captain Beatty refers to the "shot" from a bullet, to a book and it's ideas. I think this means that when a person reads a book, that person gets pursuaded and gets under the influence of that book. That person thinks they can express themselves in any way like the characters in a book. He says that from this passage in the book: "Nothing you can teach or believe. They're nonexistent people, figments of imagination, if they're fiction. And if they're nonfiction, it's worse, one professor calling another's gullet."
"You must understand that our civilization is so vast that our minorities upset and stirred." That's exactly my point. Captain Beatty thinks that by shaping and molding minorities into these book-free people, they'll turn out happy, and into well disciplined people. They will not. By feeding minds of minors with the knowledge of books, they'll turn out into free people. By that, I mean they will have the courage to be different.
"Ask yourself, What do we want in this country, above all? People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't He also says "you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we give the fun? That's all we live for, isn't it?" I really have to disagree with this. People live their lives to fullest. People can't live their life without guidance from a book. The knowledge from a book helps people see that the sky's the limit to what you can achieve. You can live in this world, where books are banned, and you can't see what there is to see. Or you live in this world of many possibilities of books, and unreal things coming to life.

In this book, possessing a book is illegal. and it's the firemen's job to burn those books down. But why? To stop people from expressing their own feelings, to wonder about in reading a book? My personal thoughts about this, is that people should be able to express themselves in any way they want. Through reading a book, to being who they want to be. They shouldn't be criticised just because they want to be who they are, even if that means being different.

Descriptive Paragraph

Something I Dread

Night falls upon the powerless world as the sun sets into the distant horizons. I lay in warmth and comfort as I set sail into the many possibilities of my wondering thoughts in deep slumber. But I find myself wasting in sighs unable to drift off into a field of dreams. I'm sorrounded in pitch black darkness. I fear. I gaze blankly at the empty rooftop of my box of silence. Hopelessly, I shift to my left. I soon face the terror. The big white entranceway to an unknown universe. Unknown creatures may lay behind it. A small brass circular lever, the only way in. I stare at it closely. I thought I saw it move. I shut my eyes to try to forget. I hear it creak. My heart pounds like a thousand drums beating on my chest. I hood myself with a bulky square of fluffiness. I hear it creak again. I'm shaken in freight. I quickly snatch the cord on the rugged floor. I wedge it into the wall. This bright shine oversomes everything. This diamond shaped glass filled with pink soothing bubbles flowing up and down. This special light calms me down. I soon fall into a deep, deep trance. This light, my savior.

Fahrenheit 451 pgs. 21-40

Q. Ask a question: What do you find confusing? What is something you don’t understand?
A. Why would the firemen rather start fires than prevent them?
In the passage, their alarm goes off and they have to burn books down at a woman's house? I'm confused.

Q. Montag compares Mildred (his wife) to Clarisse and says that Clarisse seems older. In what way does Clarisse act more mature and WHY do you think she is more mature? Why does Bradbury (the author) make the contrast between the two?
A. I think Clarisse seems older and alot more mature than Mildred for many reasons. Clarisse says her mind. She's not afraid of what other people are going to think of her. She also takes time to appreciate the small details in life. But Mildred, she seems very secretive and I don't really have a sense of her character. I think the author makes the comparison between the two because they're two very different people, but they are both involved with Montag.

Fahrenheit 451 pgs. 3-21

Q. Ask a question that you have about what's going on in the novel. What do you find confusing?
A. Does Mildred have any sort of illness?
In the passage, Montag says to Mildred that she had overdosed. She had a taken two pills from a 30 pill bottle, then another two, and another. Does she have memory loss, or some type of illness that she's taking pills for?

Q. Even before Montag and his wife Mildred talk to one another we know that they are alienated (distant) from one another. How does the author convey this?
A. It was kind of confusing the first time I read about his wife. It seems like they are distant from one another. The author says, "Without turning on the light he imagined how this room would look. His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable." I thought his wife had passed away. But as I read on, I realized that his wife does live with him, but they feel as if they live in separate worlds under the same roof. They don't really communicate with one another as husband and wife.