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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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.

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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.