Fahrenheit 451 pp. 154-165

1. Ask a question.
I was wondering what was happening on page 158 because I got kind of lost.

2. 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?
I think this quote means that we’re remembering our mistakes so we won’t repeat them. To me this quote relates to the quote on page 163:
“There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up. He must have been first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we’re doing the same thing, over and over, but we’ve got one damn thing the phoenix never had. We know the damn silly thing we just did. We know all the damn silly things we’re done for a thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, someday we’ll stop making the goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember every generation.”
By remembering their mistakes, society will stop burning it’s self over and over again like the phoenix and will be able to live in peace.

Fahrenheit 451 pp. 138-154

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.
One thing I got did not understand is when Montag wakes up in the barn and he sees a glass of milk, an apple and a pear waiting for him. Then all of a sudden he’s talking about the Hound getting him…?


How has Montag changed from the beginning of the novel to this part?
Well Montag has become more educated and aware about the world where as in the beginning he was ignorant. Also in his new environment he will have more time to think and strategize his next moves against the government where as in the busy city he would be full of distractions and might not succeed in becoming more educate than he already is.

Fahrenheit 451 pp. 126-137

Find a line from the story or a paragraph that you like and explain why you like it.

"God knew, from twelve to sixteen, out whistling, yelling, hurrahing, had seen a man, a very extraordinary sight, a man strolling, a rarity, and simply said, 'Let's get him,' not knowing he was the fugitive Mr. Montag, simply a number of children out for a long night of raring five or six hundred miles in a few moonlit hours, their faces icy with wind, and coming home or not coming at dawn, alive or not alive, that made the adventure."

I picked this quote because I thought it was crazy how 1) children under sixteen were driving and 2) they were so reckless that when they saw Montag in the street just decided to run him over for fun. I also like the descriptive language Ray Bradbury uses when he's describing the children’s "faces icy with wind".

Fahrenheit 451 pp. 110-125

1. Summarize what happens in one or two sentences.
In this sence Mildred and her friends send in an alarm on Montag for having books. Montag is forced to burn his house and books and then he would be arrested. Montag's anger got to the best of him and he burned Beatty and the Hound to death.

2. 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?
"He cut off it's terrible emptiness, drew back, and gave the entire room a git of one huge bright yellow flower of burning."
I liked how Rad Bradbury described the fire shooting out of the flame thrower a "yellow flower of burning". It makes me think of a bright, huge, flower shaped ball of fire growing and filling up the room.

Fahrenheit 451pp. 91 - 110

1)Give a very short (1-3 sentence) summary of the two main scenes in this section. The first scene was at home in the living room and the second scene was in the fire house with Beatty.

In the first major scene Montag over hears Mildred and her friends conversation about their husbands fighting in the war and how they don’t really care, there husbands will be alright, etc. Montag gets angry about what they’re saying and burst out in rage. He reads them a poem, and one of the women begins to cry. Mildred insists that it was a joke and they should have a party to make up for Montag’s wild behavior, but the other women want to leave. So, Montag yells at them to “Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out, go home and think of the dozen abortions you’ve had, go home and think of that and your damn Caesarian sections too, and your children who hate your guts! Go home and think how it all happened and what did you ever do to stop it?”

In the second scene Beatty is telling Montag about a “dream” he had. In the dream Montag and Beatty where arguing, saying quotes from different books. What Beatty was trying to do was confuse Montag, making sure he would be on his side with the rest of the firemen. Luckily Faber was there to guide Montag through it. The alarm bell rang and they all went out to burn a house. They pull up at the house and Montag realizes it’s his own house he is about to burn.

2) 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?

“The faces of those enameled creatures meant nothing to him, though he talked to them and stood in that church for along time, trying to be of that religion, enough of the raw incense and special dust of the place into his lungs and thus into his blood to feel touched and concerned by the meaning of the colorful men and women with the porcelain eyes and blood-ruby lips.”
I thought this quote was a great example of strong descriptive writing. When they describe the people in the church you can just imagine their perfect white eyes staring at you and their bright red lips. When Montag talked about the “raw incense and special dust of the place” I could imagine him taking in deep breaths trying to get enough of the “special dust” as possible.

Fahrenheit 451 pp. 81-91

1. Write a question. What are you confused about?
What is Denham's Dentifrice?

2. Faber jokingly proposes a plan of action and then starts to discuss it seriously with Montag. What is the plan of action? More importantly, why does he say it won’t work? Analyze his answer. Why won't it work?
Montag had an idea that they could plant books in different firehouses to “have them all burned across the land, destroyed as hotbeds of treason.” Faber likes the plan, but realizes some cons in it. For example, there would be the problem of trust, they would need accomplices that they could trust to help them plant the books in the houses.

Discriptive Writing- i like people

The tedious sports station blasting the stereo. Is the ride always this boring? YES...but it's worth it. Finally reaching the destination. Kids swarming around, like ants around a cookie crumb. I look across the gray parking lot and see a loud group of people laughing, not in a hurry to anywhere. Then i hear my name "BIANCA!!!!" I smile and walk towards them. Everyones talking, and i join in a conversation. Five minutes pass...8:40, we're late. "We should go to class now"

Fahrenheit 451 pp. 71-80

1. Write a question about the reading. What are you confused about?
One thing I was confused about in the book was Mildred and her "family" and the whole parlor thing. Are they her real family? If so why does Guy question if they love her? I also wondered what was the "Denham" thing about?

2. How will books get us out of "the cave?" What is the cave and how will books get us out of it?
I think what Guy means is that they will be more educated and understand more about why books are illegal and why the government doesn't want people to think for themselves. The books will help Guy and Mildred be more educated so they can get out of "the cave" which I think is ignorance.

If you don't know what a sieve is you can look it up.
Sieve:
1. an instrument with a meshed or perforated bottom, used for separating coarse from fine parts of loose matter, for straining liquids, etc., esp. one with a circular frame and fine meshes or perforations.
2. a person who cannot keep a secret. –verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
3. to put or force through a sieve; sift.

Fahrenheit 451 pp. 40-68

Is it better to be ignorant and happy OR is it better to be aware, educated and disturbed at the world?
It is better to be ignorant and happy because they can still "think" and be happy. Where as when your aware, educated and disturbed you are thinking, but your unhappy.
"Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock then so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give then any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy." Page 61

Discriptive Paragraph-nobody understands

I turn the shiny silver knob and the door slowly creaks open. I gleefully walk in to the brightly lit classroom, but as soon as I turn around I freeze. Those frightening cold beady eyes staring back at me like a evil doll sitting on a shelf starting at you while you sleep. I say "hello" hoping that he would stop staring, but instead he growls and I quickly back away as if he were some rabies infected animal. I go through the rest of the day avoiding this horrible creature and soon forgeting about the incident earlier that day. Then Math/Physics class comes. I plop down in my seat with my dear friend Jessi Mos, we were so carefree. All of a sudden I smell a putrid sent stinging my nostrils then the laugh like nails on a chalk board goes into my ears and pop my ear drums. I hear Jessi shriek and I know that I'm next. Goodbye cruel world!

Fahrenheit 451 pp. 21-40

Ask a question: What do you find confusing? What is something you don’t understand?
I don't have any questions on the book at the moment.

1) 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?
Clarisse seems more mature because she thinks about how things work in the world and how things used to be, where as Mildred just thinks about more materialistic and carefree things such as, when the fourth wall in there house will be built and her play. I think Bardbury makes contasts between these two women to show the "typical" and the "abnormal" roles women are suppose to play in their society.

2) How are the people in the novel – both children and adults - similar and/or different from people today?
On page 29 and 30 it describes the culture of the people. Some similarites is that they go to Fun Parks and play games and relax. Though a difference is that in school they only take classes such as TV class, sports, painting where as today we take mainly academics and then one or two electives.

Fahrenheit 451 pp. 3-21

1) Ask a question that you have about what's going on in the novel. What do you find confusing?
A part in the book I didn't really understand is when Montag is talking to Mildred about all the pills she had taken the night before and she won't admit that she took the whole bottle. Why won't she believe what Montag was telling her about what had happened that night? And why didn't Montag tell Mildred that she got her stomach pumped?

2) 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?
The author conveyed the distance between the couple when Montag is imagining his wife waiting for him in bed, but that acctually hasn't happened in about two years. This shows the distance between them because usually normal couples wait for each other.