Wednesday, January 24, 2007

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.

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