1/30 Fahrenheit 451 pp. 154-165

My question is why Montag said that he liked Mildred; he was worried for her right after and during the bombings. Yet, right before the bombings he said that he could care less if Mildred was killed. Did he change his mind that quickly? Or did he always care for her?

Q: I am responding to the quote “And when they ask us what we are doing, you can say, we’re remembering”.

A: Montag says that because he thinks it is important for people to remember things, to realize what is going on around them, and have ideas. Yet at the same time it does not imply that they should worry or fret about what they know, or are trying to remember. It’s not like he is forcing people to think, he just wants them not to be ignorant and oblivious.

1/29 Fahrenheit 451 pp. 138-154

I don’t get why Guy said that the police haven’t told people to look outside their front doors before for the only person running. You would think that no one has ever managed to outrun the cops, a police ‘hound’, and helicopters. Seems to me this is a one time only thing.

Q: Has guy changed since the begging of the book until now?

A: Montag has changes since the begging of the book since about the time he met Clarisse. Clarisse told him he was not like the other firefighters and I think that’s when he realized he really wasn’t like the others. After that he slowly became more aware of things around him like ideas, nature, and creativity.

1/29 Fahrenheit 451 pp. 126-137

“He looked down the boulevard. It was clear now. A car full of children, all ages. God knew, from twelve to sixteen 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 roaring five or six hundred miles in a few moonlit hours, there faces icy with wind, and coming home or not coming at dawn, alive or not alive, that made the adventure.”

I found this paragraph very interesting because it struck me how the kids acted. It was unusual how the kids didn’t care what happened. I also noticed the many spelling and grammatical errors such as no and after a list with commas. Also he says that the kids traveled 500 or 600 miles in a few moonlit hours the would have to be going 150-300 miles an hour to make that trip, no were does he ever say they are going that fast, the fasted he said was 130 mph.

1/26 Fahrenheit 451 pp. 110-125

Summarize: Captain Beatty tells Guy to set fire to his own house with a flame thrower. Guy then kills Beatty with it, gets hit by a car, and runs away from the cops.

Sentence: “And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering manikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continues pulse of liquid fire on him.” I thought this was an incredibly descriptive because it used so many ways to describe Beatty as he died. Some strong words were: sprawling, writhing and pulse.

1/25 Fahrenheit 451pp. 91 - 110

Summary: Montag reads a poem from a book and makes all of the women in the parlor leave. He also brought a book to Beatty to be destroyed. They then all rush over to a house that had books that turned out to be Guy’s.

Figurative Language: On page 102, in the first paragraph it has a good simile. It was: “He searched his house and found the books where Mildred stacked them behind the refrigerator. Some were missing and he knew that she had started on her own slow process of dispersing the dynamite in her house stick by stick.”

1/24 Descriptive Paragraph

Lying back, I release a deep breath like the wind gushing ashore from a huge wave. As I start to relax all my muscled in a sort of trance, I realize how close I am to falling asleep that very instance. As I reach over to the side of my bed and click the only button on the white blob that resembles an alien looking shell complete with funny grooves and a flat green section with squares. I spin the top of it watching the numbers flash a million times as the broken display board acts as if it has epilepsy until I stop interfering with it, its almost like an old computer. I then feel the surge of heat rushing through that one blanket filled with wires amongst all the other plain and normal blankets. I let my eyes wonder around the room as they come across $250 dollars of electrical entertainment. As I grab it I put the two funny buds in my ears awaiting the sound that will soon rush out of it. I hit the switch on the side that makes all of the 130,560 pixels in exclusion to that one lonely dead pixel come to life immersing me in all of the colors it can display. I play all the music I have personally put into it while watching the array of lights that the visualizer engenders. The overwhelming almost coma-inducing heat from that one unique blanket and the rhythmic tune form the funny buds puts me to sleep almost instantly; the tune from the buds still ragging on through the night.

1/24 Fahrenheit 481 pp. 81-91

I'm confused as to what Guy was going to say on page 86. He says: “I’ve got a list of fireman’s residences everywhere. With some sort of underground— “ He just trails off, I don’t really know what he is going to say.

Q:

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?

A:

Faber says it won’t work for two reasons. 1: No one can set the fires. 2: You can’t trust anybody. I think this is half right, half wrong because I think that if a fireman is caught with a book there house can be burnt down. However I do agree with the second thing that Faber said: you can’t trust anybody. I think that they went around asking people to join them they would both be put in jail, there's no way to find anyone who can join them.

1/23 - Fahrenheit 451 pp. 71-80

I’m confused on why Montag shut the door-voice off. You would think he would wan t to know when someone was at the door, possibly listening to them read the books out loud. The only logical reason I could think of would be the fact that Mildred might rush to the door to open it no matter who was there (knowing her spastic personality). If the door opened someone would know they were reading books.

Question A:

What does Montag mean when he says that books "point, one way or another, to Clarisse?"

Answer:

Guy means that books never agree with everyone. They have only one side and therefore can offend certain people. For instance a book could say that all circles should be orange, which would upset people who think that all circles should be blue.

1/22 Fahrenheit 451 pp. 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?

A:
He says that because the fireman burn controversial books. If the books are not there then no one gets offended and everyone is happy. That’s why they are called the “happiness boys”. The books also give people bad ideas and supposedly corrupt their minds. But because there are no books no one has a corrupt mind, which is why Beatty tells Guy they are custodians of “our piece of mind”.

What I am sort of confused on is how captain Beatty knows a lot of book titles and quotes form them. Not so much of quotes, but rather certain ideas. It doesn’t seem to me that Beatty would read the books.

What I dread

I shiver ran through my body as I looked over my shoulder. I turn around to see an endless wave stretching across the beach. As it towers over me I notice it start to curl and I know it’s going to break, it reminds me of a skyscraper crashing over me and I have no where to run. Frozen in fear, fumbling with that strap on my wrist hearing the crinkling of wet Velcro, I try to decide what to do. Thinking fast I gasp for air feeling the coldness of it rush against the inside of my throat burning it. I then dive under the cold liquid that makes me float thinking that the further I dive under it the less the ferocious beast will unleash it mighty power sending me tumbling underwater. Yet as I dive down further and further while it’s getting darker and darker while knowing I need to go a lot further… I stop; it was as if I ran into a glass wall. I panic realizing why I had stopped; my boogie board was still attached to my wrist, like a dog on a leash trying to chase a cat. I look up with my pupils enlarged in pure terror watching the bulge in the water crashing down onto the water. The bitter current throws me to the bottom of the ocean snapping the cable attached to my wrist. Clenching my wrist in pain I strike the hard bed of the ocean listening to the rushing water above me accompanied to the scrapping noise of my back against the coarse sand. Tumbling across the ocean floor I folded my legs in to jump with all my strength to the surface of the unforgiving water. Gasping for air I swallow the white wash that the vast wave had left, like the black ashes from a once raging fire. The intense blinding whiteness washes me ashore along with my board like I'm driftwood floating ashore from a horrible ship wreck. I grab my board and sprint along shore burning up my remaining energy as I head towards my spot on the beach. I collapse against the near molten sand from the intense heat of the sun, too drained to move, I lay there in pain… stomach burning to a crisp, my back bleeding profoundly as the ground surrounding me turned red from blood.

1/19 Fahrenheit 451 Assignment pp. 21-40

1) Guy compares his wife and Clarisse and thought that Clarisse seemed older in some ways compared to Mildred. Montag thinks Clarisse seems more mature because she notices things such as how the kids in her class are killing each other and how it is wrong. She also does all the shopping and cleans her house by hand. Guy also thinks that Clarisse is more social then most people in the traditional way, by actually talking, everyone else just sits in groups and watches movies and listens to the radio. Mildred on the other hand is older then Clarisse but does not show that much signs of maturity. She doesn’t seem to take a break at anytime from entertaining herself and she never has thinks or worries about things. For instance she is always listing to the family and has the seashells in her ears; she’s just always doing something. Also, Mildred accidentally killed herself and she doesn’t even really care that she did.

Fahrenheit 451 pp. 3-21

My question is why Mildred wants to add a 4th wall when she the already have three and she knows they cant afford it?


I think that the other is able to convey the fact that Guy and Mildred are remote from each other because they have very different behaviors and the do not communicate well. For instance, Mildred is always happy and Clarisse made mad Guy realize that he wasn't happy. Also, Mildred barley makes an effort to listen to Guy, in fact, she doesn't listen at all she lip reads because she is constantly listening to music.