Study Questions (Please choose at least 5)
1. Describe the society (a fictional America) that Montag lives in. In what ways is it similar to, but more extreme than, our society? What signs are there that it is a “dystopia” (the opposite of a utopia, an ideal society)?
2. What makes Clarisse so special—so different from most people in her society? What qualities does Montag have that make him receptive to her influence?
3. Why do you think the mechanical hound has been programmed to react to Montag?
4. Why do you think the woman chooses to burn herself along with her books? Why does this have such a powerful effect on Montag—what does it mean to him?
5. What is the point of Bradbury’s description of the kind of television show that Mildred likes to watch (p. 44-46)? [“sound and fury, signifying nothing”—I’ll explain this quotation in class]
6. What is shocking and disturbing about the way Montag finds out what happened to Clarisse? What does this tell us about Mildred and about their society?
7. Why does Montag get “sick” and try to avoid going to work?
8. What does the revelation that Montag has so many books hidden in his home tell us about him? Why do Montag’s hands seem to have a mind of their own—what does this actually mean?
9. What is Beatty’s explanation for the current state of their society?
10. What do you think of Mildred’s claim that she is happy, and why? How do you define happiness? Is being happy always the most important goal of life?
11. What events trigger Montag’s transformation from aloof, unthinking fireman to passionate, philosophical rebel?
12. Find three examples of foreshadowing in Part 1.
13. Like Hemingway, Bradbury sometimes writes in an elliptical style, giving us bits of information from which we must infer what is happening, what the characters are thinking and feeling. Find one example of this in Part 1.
14. Choose one paragraph or passage from Part 1 that is an example of Bradbury’s unusual writing style (e.g. p. 17/18, p. 24) and interpret its meaning.
15. What predictions might you make about later events in the story?
Dowol Lee
ReplyDelete1)The world in Fahrenheit 451 is a technology ridden world, where people don’t actually talk. All they are focused on is the tv or other types of technology. No one goes outside anymore and no one pays attention to the outside world.’"I sometimes think drivers don't know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly," she said. "If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! he'd say, that's grass!”. This quote from Clarisse McClellan, the girl Guy Montag met on the street. This quote shows that people don’t really observe other things like nature and are just focused on other things. There conversation shows the disconnect between people and the outside world. ‘"Oh, just my mother and father and uncle sitting around, talking. It's like being a pedestrian, only rarer. My uncle was arrested another time-did I tell you?-for being a pedestrian. Oh, we're most peculiar." "But what do you talk about?"’ This quote is very interesting because Guy Montag is seriously curious about what Clarisse’s family talks about. That shows that he doesn’t really talk to anyone. Another good example is when Mildred was saved by these men who were very casual and acted like this always happened. No panic, no feelings. This dystopian world that is set is almost similar to our world on a very extreme level. Some small things are like earbuds. Ray Bradbury predicted that we would have devices to drown out sound and for listening to music or other things. Also, our technology has progressed to that level but, people are still sociable and people talk. This is a dystopian society also because, there is no freedom, they burn books so people can’t get another piece of mind. Everyone is boring and colorless.
2)Clarisse is so special because she is not conformed like everyone else that is part of this dystopian world with no emotion. She talks with her family unlike most people as shown by Guy Montag. She notices things that other people don’t, like the nature. She is very curious about the past, and how it was. It sounds like her whole family is also like this because her uncle wanted to slow down to see the scenery and the fact they talk and have conversations like regular human beings. Montag is receptive to her influence because he is also very thoughtful but stops himself from thinking about that stuff too much. He accepts this world of boringness.
4)The woman chose to burn herself with the books because she felt like she was nothing with them and she felt like she would not be happy without them. To Montag this meant a lot because he is more thoughtful than the average person in that world. He knew the books meant a lot to her so he felt bad about burning them and her. He then grabs a book for himself and takes it home because he feels so much guilt.
7)Montag gets “sick and tries to avoid work because he killed a woman while he was taking part in a large fire in which he burned thousands of books.”"Yes, the bunch, the bunch, the bunch." He pressed at the pain in his eyes and suddenly the odour of kerosene made him vomit.” In this quote it shows how guilty he felt about killing the woman in the fire. Just smelling the kerosene gave him flashbacks of the trauma and guilt he felt for killing her.
8) The revelation that Montag has so many books in his home shows that he is actually not conformed to the society he lives in when at first we thought he was. He is a thinker and actually has a mind of his own. The phrase”Montag’s hands seem to have a mind of their own means that his hands are like what he wants to do & his mind is what society wants him to think. This analogy is very good because the society he lives in is almost like a dystopia where no one has their own ideals and thoughts.
1. Describe the society (a fictional America) that Montag lives in. In what ways is it similar to, but more extreme than, our society? What signs are there that it is a “dystopia” (the opposite of a utopia, an ideal society)? The society that Montag lives in is a dystopia because they burn books instead of like regular firefighters. Montag burned a woman alive this is not a normal society.
ReplyDelete2. What makes Clarisse so special—so different from most people in her society? What qualities does Montag have that make him receptive to her influence?
What makes clarrise so special is that she asks a lot of question. Clarisse wants to know a lot of detail about Montag. Most people in society don't ask a lot of questions. "Do you mind if I ask? How long have you worked at being a fireman?" Since I was twenty, ten years ago." In this quote, she asks about how long Montag has been a fireman this shows how much she wants to know about people
3. Why do you think the mechanical hound has been programmed to react to Montag?
I think the hound has been programmed to react to Montag because it knows something about him. Maybe it knows that he stole a book. It may also know that Montag is different, it also might be because he was talking to Clarisse and that's why she's gone.
4. Why do you think the woman chooses to burn herself along with her books? Why does this have such a powerful effect on Montag—what does it mean to him? I think the lady burns herself with the books because that's the only thing she has left and without the books, life isn't worth living. This means a lot to Montag because it just shows how important books are in people lives.
15. What predictions might you make about later events in the story?
I think that someone is going to find out about Montag stealing books. I also think that Montag’s wife is going to get a fourth tv wall and possibly to kill herself again.
Michael DiCenzo ^
DeleteGriffin Littlewood
ReplyDelete1.Montag is a firefighter but in this future, they cause the fires they burn books so people forget the past. It is a dystopia because peoples knowledge of events are limited and they are not allowed to be knowledgeable of there history. You see this when Montag says reading is against the law with Sarah. "Since I was twenty, ten years ago." "Do you ever read any of the books you bum?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.".
2.Clarisse is special because she has curiosity which your not supposed to have in this society. She asks the fireman if people used take out fires instead of starting them which raised an eyebrow for the readers revealing that its in the future. "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?".
3.I think it is so if he turns or goes rogue it is programmed to spy on him it is so he can't betray the government or the firemen. It is basically just to keep him in line.
4.This shows her faith in the past and she believes in the books, I also think it affects him because he saw an innocent woman die."Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived. Come on now! ". We see here how strong her beliefs are and how the men want her to get out.
11. I think towards the end of the book with all of these events he will believe in books and all of these events will cause him to want to rebel. I think one of the major events that will change will be the burning of the women. I also believe that Clarisse is going to affect his ideas of the book burning and that she will cause him in a way to evolve his beliefs.
Suhani Karki
ReplyDelete4. Why do you think the woman chooses to burn herself along with her books? Why does this have such a powerful effect on Montag—what does it mean to him?
The old woman chooses to burn with her books to voice her opposition to the practice of book burning. This harms Montag, and he is overwhelmed by guilt. “She was only standing, weaving from side to side, her eyes fixed upon a nothingness in the wall as if they had struck her a terrible blow upon the head.” (pg 36) Montage tried to save the woman but was the first time he had seen a human victim. He felt that the police should have removed her first before they started burning the books.
9. What is Beatty’s explanation for the current state of their society?
Beatty’s explanation for the current state of their society is that special-interest groups and other “minorities” objected to books that offended them. Soon, books all began to look the same, as writers tried to avoid offending anybody. Eventually, because people were busy and not wanting to take the time to read and books would be condensed into one-page summaries. “Now ’let’s take up the minorities in our civilization, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. ’Don’t step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists…” (Part1).
7. Why does Montag get “sick” and try to avoid going to work?
Montage gets “sick” and tries to avoid going to work because he took part in a massive fire, which burned thousands of books and caused the death of a woman who owned the house. He also stole a book & felt guilty.” ” You ’weren’t there, you ’didn’t see,” he said. “There must be something in books, things we ’can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You ’don’t stay for nothing.” That ’women’s action caused Montag to examine his life and his worldview, and he even attempts to talk it through with his wife.
3. Why do you think the mechanical hound has been programmed to react to Montag?
I think Montag has a enemy, the enemy set the mechanical hound to ’Montag’s chemical complex and let it loose. ” It was like a great bee come home from some field where the honey is full of poison wildness, insanity and nightmare, its body crammed with that over-rich nectar and now it was sleeping the evil out of itself.” (Part I). The firemen like to play with the hound, but Montag ’doesn’t play in these games because his wife Mildred ’doesn’t let him.
2. What makes Clarisse so special—so different from most people in her society? What qualities does Montag have that make him receptive to her influence?
What makes Clarisse so special is that she has a different way she looks at the world. Just like when she talked to Montage about things that Montag has never thought about. “’ You’re one of the few who put up with me. ’That’s why I think ’it’s so strange ’you’re a fireman, it just ’doesn’t seem right for you, somehow.” (Part1). Montage’s curiousness makes him to both listen to and reflect upon what she says to him.
Celia Hoffman
ReplyDelete1. Describe the society (a fictional America) that Montag lives in. In what ways is it similar to, but more extreme than, our society? What signs are there that it is a “dystopia” (the opposite of a utopia, an ideal society)?
Montag lives in a very futuristic society in which, books are forbidden, and basic knowledge of America’s true past. People commit suicide so often that is has become normal, and firemen create fires instead of putting them out. In a scene when Montag was talking to his fellow firemen, they pulled out there rulebooks and read, "Established, 1790, to burn English-influenced books in the Colonies. First Fireman: Benjamin Franklin." This is very different from our history, or maybe the leaders of this society erased the truth from history. It is a dystopia because no one is really allowed to have thoughts or even talk.
2. What makes Clarisse so special—so different from most people in her society? What qualities does Montag have that make him receptive to her influence?
Clarisse isn’t afraid to think and have genuine thoughts. She is very much herself and will always be curious about the world and people. She tells Montag about all of her thoughts and habits, like watching and listening to people on the subway. Montag is also very naturally curious, as we see when he talks to his wife about the mechanical hound to his captain, but he hides his thoughts from others. Except when he talks to Clarisse, he really is able to open up with her.
3. Why do you think the mechanical hound has been programmed to react to Montag?
I think since Montag is more curious about the hound, it reacts differently to him than the other firemen, who don’t pay much attention except for the game they make the hound play. I think the hound can sense that Montag is different from the other firemen. The hound's behavior towards Montag also might foreshadow that someone did something, or programmed the hound to be nasty towards Montag.
4. Why do you think the woman chooses to burn herself along with her books? Why does this have such a powerful effect on Montag—what does it mean to him?
I think the women chose to burn with her books because she didn’t want to be in a world where knowledge and history are gone. She was very connected to them and didn’t want to leave them behind, even though Montag was trying to help her, unlike the other firemen. This shows us that Montag is caring, unlike his captain and others, who told him to leave her, and said that she would probably kill herself soon anyway. Montag was impacted a lot from this event because he also has some stolen books hidden, and this event showed him what could happen to him if they were found.
7. Why does Montag get “sick” and try to avoid going to work?
Montag gets “sick” and doesn’t go to work because he is sad about the women who killed herself in the fire with her books. It really affected him and he is impacted by the effect that the books had on that women to make her want to burn with them. He is also guilty of stealing a book from the house. Even though he may not be physically sick, he still needs some time after the big event that he just went through.
ReplyDeleteJacob Moore
1. Describe the society (a fictional America) that Montag lives in. In what ways is it similar to, but more extreme than, our society? What signs are there that it is a “dystopia” (the opposite of a utopia, an ideal society)?
In the novel Fahrenheit 451 the main character Montag lives in a dystopian society. In the society Montag has a job as a firefighter but instead of putting out fires he starts them to burn books. The Reason that they burn the books is to not let people read because they want everyone focusing on technology. This is quite similar to the modern U.S because a lot of our society is also glued to technology instead of books. Majority of Generation Z in the U.S couldn't go a day without some sort of electronic device. Obviously the U.S being glued to their devices is not as extreme as making it illegal to read .
2. What makes Clarisse so special—so different from most people in her society? What qualities does Montag have that make him receptive to her influence?
What makes Clarisse so special and different than the rest of her society is that she seems like a normal person by the real-worlds standards but in her dystopian society she is very different. Most people in her society don't really speak to one another or go outside but her family actually does those things. The thing that makes Montag receptive to her influence would have to be that Montag is thoughtful like clarisse and actually values her opinion.
4. Why do you think the woman chooses to burn herself along with her books? Why does this have such a powerful effect on Montag—what does it mean to him?
I think the woman wants to burn with her books because she doesn't believe in what they are doing is right and she's trying to protest or she just can't live without her books. This has such a powerful effect on montag because if the woman wanted to die with the books there must be some sort of reason to them.
6. What is shocking and disturbing about the way Montag finds out what happened to Clarisse? What does this tell us about Mildred and about their society?
What is shocking and disturbing about how Montag Finds out what happened to clarisse is that mildred doesn't really seem to show any emotion towards it. After Clarisse had said to Montag if he was in love he wants to make a connection with mildred. What this tells us about mildred and her society is that it doesn't really have emotion and only focuses on other things other than reality.
10. What do you think of Mildred’s claim that she is happy, and why? How do you define happiness? Is being happy always the most important goal of life?
I don't think that mildred is truly happy because she probably doesn't know what being happy truly feels like. I would say being happy is having no worries and really living in the moment and enjoying every second of it. I would 100% say that being happy is the most important goal to life. Even though we may not be happy all the time we always are trying to please ourselves. Also we might need to do things like work that don't make us happy but it sets us up for happiness in the future to not have to worry about expenses.
Dylan Brenner
ReplyDelete1. Describe the society (a fictional America) that Montag lives in. In what ways is it similar to, but more extreme than, our society? What signs are there that it is a “dystopia” (the opposite of a utopia, an ideal society)? Montag lives in a dystopian society where it is ruled by the government. Therefore the individuals never get to make there own thoughts or decisions. They all act the same as each other. I feel like it is somewhat the same as our society because a lot of people care about the same thing. The signs that is a dystopian is because the government is very controlling of the people.
2. What makes Clarisse so special—so different from most people in her society? What qualities does Montag have that make him receptive to her influence? What make Clarisse so special and different is that she socializes and has feelings for others. Montag cares what Clarisse says.
3. Why do you think the mechanical hound has been programmed to react to Montag?
I think she has been programmed to react to Montag because I think someone let is loose for Montag.
7. Why does Montag get “sick” and try to avoid going to work? He was apart of a fire the day and before and he felt guilty from stealing books.
15. What predictions might you make about later events in the story? I think Montag will become interested in books and could possibly become a firefighter.
Evan Lin
ReplyDelete1. The America this book takes place in is very different to the America we live in. Everyone in the book are obsessed with technology, as can be seen with Guy's wife, who always has earbuds in. Books are forbidden, and freedom of speech doesn't exist anymore. Everything is controlled by the government, including thought. This dystopia enables mindless thought, with everybody following the same ideology, with no second thought of what they are given.
2. Clarisse is special from everyone because she is very curious compared to others and is willing to learn about things outside of the classroom. She asks Guy questions that make him think to himself. When Clarisse asks if Guy is happy, he denies that he is unhappy, thinking to himself "Happy! Of all the nonsense". Guy did not have those thoughts on his mind, until Clarisse triggered his thinking.
4. Before the woman lit herself on fire, she said to the firemen: "We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out". This quote came from a man who was being burned alive for heresy, which is speech that goes against Christian beliefs. The woman is sacrificing herself to send a message to everyone, about the value of a book. With this action, she hopes to cause a change in society, one that allows for expression of different opinions. Guy is confused by this because he doesn't understand how important the books are, but now he realizes "There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there."
9. Beatty believes the reason society is like this is because of books getting shorter, they become useless. He says that "Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending", which removes the "time wasting thought". Everyone wants to be happy, so the government does everything possible to keep them happy. Without opinions, people can be happy with the opinion they are given."If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a
question to worry him; give him one."
Shruthi Saravanan
ReplyDelete2. I think the thing that makes Clarisse so special is her thought. It doesn’t seem like anyone in this place things anywhere close to what she thinks. Also, she’s the only girl of her age who’s isn't doing what the rest of the 17-year-old girl do such as go to school and then do different activities afterward. "Why aren't you in school?... I don't mix (13)”. She spends her time noticing details, talks with her parents and spends time with just her own thoughts. Montag is for some reason interested with the ideas and the thoughts that Clarisse shares with him. “You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive (10)”. Montag himself is actually confused on why he’s accepting this girl to come to share these absurd thoughts that god knows where she got from though every time he finds himself walking next to her and listening to what she’s telling him, every day.
4. I think the reason why the lady decided to burn with her books inside her home is because she was so enlightened by them. She probably got a view of the world or something that was important to her which she learned about but also had to accept that the reality she’s living in will never have those things. "You can't ever have my books(18)". The lady believed that rather than seeing these truthful things burn and die out in front of her knowing she will lose these special things she would rather get burnt alive with them.
6. The shocking thing about how the news about Clarisse is brought up to Montag is how emotionless Millie was when telling him the tragic story. "No. The same girl. McClellan. McClellan, Run over by a car. Four days ago. I'm not sure. But I think she's dead. The family moved out anyway. I don't know. But I think she's dead (23)”. She mentions it like it’s some useless news that she overheard from someone. And it wasn’t only because she didn’t seem hurt or affected by the news at all it was also because she waited four days until she told Montag, a guy who she knew cared about Clarisse, about her death, apparently confessing that she forgot about it for that long. “I forgot all about it (23)". This shows how much the death of someone in this place could mean to the other people, almost nothing.
7. Montag gets “sick” and decides to not go to work due to him being so traumatized by his mission he had the other day. “There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing (24)”. He now wonders so much of why this woman believed in something so strong in those bundles of paper that she decided without any doubt that she’d rather get burned with the book than to leave them behind just for them to burn into ashes alone. With all these new scary thoughts he’s receiving he feels like going to work will only remind him of this incident which was something he wasn’t fond of at all.
8. Montag having so many books at his own house shows how he has this connection with them and even those his job for the past ten years was to go over and burn down the houses that contained the piles of paper he still had another part of his mind telling him something different. “He balanced in space with the book in his sweating cold fingers. (19)” Even though he knew that doing this was completely unacceptable he would always end up finding himself once again grasping one of these mysteriously forbidden objects. “His hands were ravenous (19)”. Before Montag even thinks he is found doing these things and at the end, all he remembers is reaching for the book grabbing it hiding it and coming home only to question why he did it. He described it as his hands having a mind of its own though I feel like it isn’t his hand and more like his curiosity in his mind making him do these illegal actions.
Yasmiin Ali
ReplyDelete1. The society that Montag lives in makes sure that people don’t ask why and think for themselves. The world he lives in hides people from reality and how dystopian the world has become. The similar things that his world has to our are that technology is taking over our way of information. Library’s and books have not been the most popular to the new generation. “Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations, Digests. Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending.” They are more extreme and have signs of a dystopian society. They take away the freedom of speech when they decided to burn all books which limited people to have false information.
2. Clarisse is different from the other people in Montag’s world. She likes to the think for herself and asks a lot of question that people are afraid to ask. Montag was not used to someone asking so many questions about him. He was also surprised when she said that he was not what she expected from a firefighter. ‘"So many people are. Afraid of firemen, I mean. But you're just a man, after all...",’ many people are afraid of firemen because they come to your house if you have books and burn it all. However, Clarisse isn’t because she knows he is not that type of person.
4. When Montag and the firefighters go to the woman's house to burn all her books she seemed to have a deep connection to them. When Montag tried to get her to leave the house before they put into flames you could her trying to get him to go and that she wanted to die. This has a powerful effect on Montag because he himself never seen someone kill themselves for something his job was against. What she did makes him wonder if his job was a good or evil job. ‘"There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing."’
7. Montag gets “sick” and tries to avoid work because he doesn’t think that his job is worth him having to go through seeing what happened to that women again. He questions everything about his job and how his society has changed from the past. He is also afraid that Beatty will find out that he has been stealing books and keeping them in his house. “I want to look at them, at least look at them once. Then if what the Captain says is true, we'll burn them together, believe me, we'll burn them together.”
15. Later in the story, I think that Montag will choose to not burn the books and hide them forever. I also think that Millie will accidentally tell someone about the book by accident and they will have to burn them before Captin Beatty hears about it. I hope that Montag addresses the problems of their society and inform the uninformed about the past.
I think the mechanical hound has been programmed to react to Montag because someone found out some similar thing on Montag and those “criminals” who read books, or maybe they know the secret about the ventilator and is giving him a warning. The captain said, "It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think." I think it is a warning and it shows the suspicion to him.
ReplyDeleteThe women choose to burn herself along with the books because she didn’t want to live in the world without thinking. Once people get, they will never want to go back to the old life it seems stupid. Instead of living a meaningless life, she will rather die with the book and the knowledge. The reaction of the women make Montag very interested in books and he said, "There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing." Suicide for books really shocked Montag and I think this foreshadows that he is going to start reading.
Montag gets “sick” and tries to avoid going to work because he started to think about the woman he burns with the book and the meaning of his work, burning books. “ Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time, I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before.” While he is saying these, Captain Beatty is stand in front of his door. I think this foreshadows that he is going to report by this captain later.
Nick Entner
ReplyDelete1)The society that Montag lives in is a dystopia because many people are not active and don't know anything that is happening in the society. They burn books and do many thing that are different from our society today. Many things that they do in this society are weird and not normal.
2) Montag is different from the rest of the society because he is curious and wants to know why the society is how it is. He thinks that many things that they do in this society are strange. He just wants to know more and find secrets.
4)I think the women chose to burn with her books because if she can’t read she believes there is no way to express her freedom. She was very unhappy with what they where doing in this society. She was trying to do something that would spark and change.
7) I think that Montag gets sick to avoid work because he is curious about what is happening and he also doesn't want to be a part of what they were doing. He is unhappy with what is happening in this society.
10) The Mildreds are happy because they don't believe in all the things that are happening around them and they just keep it positive. They try to be a positive as possible in there situations. They are doing good things.
Olivia Dionisio
ReplyDelete2- Clarisse is different from other people because she has compassion. She also cares for others and actually communicates with her family. The qualities that Montag are that he cares what she has to say and values her opinions.
4-I think the woman chose to burn herself with her books because she didn't want to see the books burn so she decided to burn with them. This holds a powerful effect on Montag because if she's willing to die with the books then they have some kind of importance.
7- Montag decided to call in sick because he took part in a big fire, which destroyed and burned thousands of books and caused death of a woman who owned the house. He had also stolen and book and was feeling very guilty because of it.
8- The revelation tells us Montag is a very curious person and also is not like society. It means that his hands do what he wants to do and whats on his mind is what society wants him to think.
15. I think that later in the short story Montag will make the decision to not burn the books and hide them forever.And finally i think that Mille will tell someone about the book by mistake.
Jillian Boyer
ReplyDelete2. Clarisse thinks, she has grown up in a family and surrounding that thinks, whereas Montag also thinks just as much as her, or at least he used to ,but he suppressed his thoughts when ever they showed up and he acquiesced that side of him to his society. Clarisse, on the other hand openly encourages her thoughts, and she sees nothing wrong with that. One can imagine that Clarisse is the kind of person Montag wished he could have grown up as.
3. Montag shows ‘symptoms’ of being a thinker, and seeing the world as more than a place to exist. The hound is probably program to find and target people who seem like they have access to books, people who are different and who think. He tries to make friends with the hound, when everyone else simply thinks of him as a piece of metal, which indicates to the hound that he is different.
4. To someone living in this world who reads, books would be like a safe haven, and the only place where she would feel sane. If the lady read all those books, she would probably be incredibly smart and think a lot. Everyone else in her world would be boring, and ignorant and I can only imagine how much it would drive her insane to be the only smart person in the world. She probably couldn't have even held a conversation with someone. Without her books, without the only things that she can communicate with equally, she would have no reason to live in that pointless world.
6. Montag finds out about Clarrise’s death by his wife telling him in passing conversation, days after it happened, because she forgot. The fact that she brought it up casually is one thing, but the fact that she forgot about it? That’s just insanity. It shows that this is nothing out of the ordinary, nothing to cause worry or emergency, but just another daily thing. Does that mean people just randomly die all the time? We know she died because her family got caught breaking the law with books, and is that why its nothing? Or is it really just because deaths are so common?
please ignore the run on sentence in question 4...
DeleteAnthony Dimuzio
ReplyDelete1)The world in Fahrenheit 451 is a technology ridden world where people don’t actually communicate with each other.. All they are focused on is the tv or other types of technology. No one goes outside anymore and no one pays attention to the outside world. There conversation shows the disconnect between people and the outside world. ‘"Oh, just my mother and father and uncle sitting around, talking. It's like being a pedestrian, only rarer. My uncle was arrested another time-did I tell you?-for being a pedestrian. Oh, we're most peculiar." "But what do you talk about?"’ This quote is interesting because Guy Montag is seriously curious about what Clarisse’s family talks about. That shows that he doesn’t really talk to anyone. Another good example is when Mildred was saved by these men who were very casual and acted like this always happened. No panic, no feelings. This dystopian world that is set is almost similar to our world. Some small things are like earbuds. Ray Bradbury predicted that we would have devices to drown out sound and for listening to music or other things. Also, our technology has progressed to that level but, people are still sociable and people talk. This is a dystopian society also because, there is no freedom, they burn books so people can’t get another piece of mind. Everyone is boring and colorless.
2)Clarisse is special because she is not like everyone else that is part of this weird world with no emotion. She talks with her family, unlike most people as shown by Montag. She notices things that other people don’t like nature. She is very curious about the past, and how it was. It sounds like her whole family is also like this because her uncle wanted to slow down to see the scenery and the fact they talk and have conversations like regular human beings. Montag is receptive to her influence because he is also very thoughtful but stops himself from thinking about that stuff too much.
4)The woman decides to burn with the books because she is nothing without them. This society is so messed up that people are willing to give up their life for books. Montaque feels extreme quilt for burning this home so he keeps one book with him.
7)Montag gets sick by all the quilt he had from killing the woman when he burned all of those books. He avoids his job so he doesn't have to do something like that again.
8) The revelation that Montag has so many books in his home shows that he is actually not conformed to the society he lives in when at first we thought he was. He actually thinks that books are important and can cause a change in a human so he keeps all of those books so he can show himself he is not apart of this society.