Monday, January 29, 2007

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".

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