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?
Rene Roustand
ReplyDeleteQuestion 1: People say the same thing, museums only have abstract art, killing is allowed.
Question 2: Clarisse is anti-social, does all the shopping and house-cleaning by hand and collects butterflies.
Question 3: Because Montag is much different than other people in society, the Hound is programmed to growl or threaten Montag whenever he comes near it.
Question 6: Montag finds out that Clarisse has been run over by a car, and Mildred already knew about it. It comes to show that humans can sense when an accident is going to happen
Question 7: Montag fakes being sick because the events of yesterday scarred him. He was angry at Mildred for saying the woman should have left behing her books
Drew Wachtel
ReplyDelete3) The mechanical hound has been programmed to react to Montag because the dog finds people that read books and Montag is one of those people.
4) The Woman chose to burn herself in the books because she loves the books so much that she can’t live without them. Montag takes this hard because he loves books as well and feels her pain that she is going through.
6) Montag finds out from his wife that Clarisse died from getting run over by a car. His wife didn't seem to care that someone close to the family died and didn't really remember what happened to her.
7) Montag gets sick because he feels bad about killing the woman in the books and he is sick of being a fireman for 10 years and wants a break.
15) I think that the firemen are going to suspect that something is wrong with Montag and that he reads books in the off time when he isn’t burning them.
Abhi Sharma
ReplyDelete3. Clarisse is special because of the way she approaches things. That makes her different from most people in her society because she asks why things happen. The qualities that make Montag receptive to her influence are curiosity and friendliness.
4. The women choose to burn herself along with her books she loved the books and would rather die with them instead of being alive. This had a big effect on Montag because he admires how much courage she had to sacrifice herself along with her books and started to think that these books must have a meaning that is worth knowing.
7. Montag gets sick and tries avoiding going to work because he had witnessed a lady burn herself with her book so he took one of the books and he was really nervous and scared that he was going to get caught.
9. Beatty's explanation for the current state of their society is that books were ban for a reason because people thought that they were written towards a certain audience and they felt insulted by that.
15. I think that the firemen are thinking that Montag reads books but he is supposed to be burning them because of the law in their society.
Lucas Kaufman
ReplyDelete2) Part I of “Fahrenheit 451” sees Guy Montag, who is just another fireman in his unspecified city, transform into something more than a label as he begins to think about his society and question its effectiveness. This transformation is truly started when Montag happens to run into an oddball, a free thinker, an individual, on the street- Clarisse McClellan. The first interaction between the two comes while Montag is walking home from another fine day of burning books, houses, and people, and the “seventeen and insane” (2) girl quickly catches the fireman’s interest, just for being remotely different from anyone else. Her oddness, which extends from her appearance to her personality to her habits, awaken that sense of curiosity in Montag which has been locked away in everyone else. Clarisse asks Montag several questions he can’t answer, forcing him to do what every fiber of his programming and conditioning screams against- think.
6) As time goes on, Clarisse continues to show up at Montag’s door and walk him to work, becoming part of the fireman’s daily routine over the course of a week. One day, Clarisse suddenly stops showing up, and Montag is left with no explanation as to why. A few more days pass, and he asks his beloved Mildred if she has heard anything regarding the girl. The calm, monotone response is that the girl is dead- hit by a car before her family moved away. There are many things about this off-page killing that a reader in our society would find disturbing, such as the way Mildred simply forgot about it when her husband cared so much about this girl. Mildred also makes no effort to comfort her husband or express any emotion at all over the matter- she simply tells him (after four days, no less) and moves on with life. Furthermore, when Captain Beatty comes to visit and the late Clarisse is brought up again, and Beatty was quick to call her an embarrassment who was better off dead.
7) Between Clarisse’s death and Montag finding out about it, the fireman is sent to burn yet another house with books. He carries out his job as usual, but for once in his life begins to wonder what knowledge the books contain that could keep a woman inside a burning house, keep her against her natural instincts to survive, keep her in circumstances where she knows she will die. And so, Montag manages to salvage a book from the burning building, and takes it home. The next morning, he decides to call in sick, faking illness even to Mildred, probably for the purposes of pondering the woman in the burning house, or taking a peek at the book now under his pillow.
10) After Beatty leaves the Montag home, Guy and Mildred continue talking, and the conversation drifts to what is probably the biggest question Clarisse had ever asked the fireman: “Are you happy?” Mildred is quick to respond by saying that she is and is proud of it, but of course she is- she’s as happy as she’s ever been, as happy as she’s ever known. Montag’s lack of such feelings probably comes from his beginning to question everything, and losing the sense of contentment that has been programmed into everyone. What the question is truly asking, though, is not “are you happy”, but “are you content”. And as previously stated, Mildred is because she has known nothing more than what she has, but Montag is not because he is just discovering that there is meaning beyond his society.
Part I
DeleteLucas Kaufman (Part II)
ReplyDelete11) “Fahrenheit 451”’s first part sees a great transformation in the fireman Guy Montag, from cardboard cutout #7,522 to a free-thinking, rebellious, skeptical man. As stated in my answer to Question 2, this was kick-started by Montag’s encounter with Clarisse McClellan, as her oddness seemed to open his eyes to the fact that diversity exists. His later encounters with the girl seem to further push the fireman to question everything, and he sees many things for the first time, like how strange it is that people attempt suicide on such a regular basis that their attempts have become quite casual, and that fighter jets fly over Montag’s home every night, and that every single fireman looks virtually the same. The woman in the burning house definitely had some effect on him too, since she was the one who convinced him to grab a book and call in sick the next day. And every day after that.
Evan 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. Their society is ruled by the government and the people get no say into things. Everyone is basically the same in the society. It is similar to our society because I feel like people care about similar things.
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 has compassion and she cares for others. Also she socializes with her family. The qualities Montag has are he cares what Clarisse has to say and listens to her.
3. Why do you think the mechanical hound has been programmed to react to Montag?
I think the mechanical hound has been programmed to react to Montag because someone programmed it for her.
7. Why does Montag get “sick” and try to avoid going to work?
Montag gets “sick” and tries to avoid going to work because he took part in a large fire which burned thousands of books. Also he stole a book and felt guilty.
9. What is Beatty’s explanation for the current state of their society?
Beatty’s explanations says society didn't want books. He says that it made them think and they became more angry at books.
Jayden Cho
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(Part one)
1) Guy Montag lives in a very fictional place that we can all presume as America, or at least a very dystopian version of America. There America has some similarities to our society, except in very extreme situations. First off, they seem to enjoy watching constantly there “wall televisions” which we can assume as something similar to Flat screen tvs huge enough to replace a wall. Throughout the novel, they are mentioned over and over and we can truly understand the severe amount of television they watch every day. Another way their society is somewhat similar to ours is in general what they like to do for entertainment. They mention many things our society likes to enjoy as well, such as going to the park, baseball, theatre arts, etc. However, through all these similarities there seems to be a vast amount of dystopian aspects to their society, and differ greatly to what we would think ordinary. One huge difference is the roles of firefighters, which is to start fires and incinerate books. They believe the books contain lies and are useless to their society, for they think entertainment only is a way to live a good life. What seems absolutely normal to them seems absurd to our society, and later on, Montag realizes this as well.
2) What sets Clarisse and the other people in their dystopian society apart are many things. Firstly, her family itself and especially her uncle are mentioned as not doing many of the “normal” activities a family would do in their society. However, Clarisse is very open about her mind, and in a way can be seen as fearless and not caring of what others think of her, which could be consequential if suspicions arise. When Montag starts meeting her more often, he thinks deeply to what she says, and his curiosity gets unveiled and is enlightened to truly see and understand what he and his society have been doing all this time. Clarisse also seems to see a difference in Montag compared to other people, for she remarks, “You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me. No one has time any more for anyone else. 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."(Pg. 11, Fahrenheit 451)
3) In their society, something that is quite peculiar are the “mechanical hounds” which are essentially technologically advanced mechanized robots in the shape of a hound, who help alongside the police/firefighters in hunting and killing any people causing trouble, ie hoarding books. The hounds are set to hunt through distinct chemical compounds in each person and to kill whoever the unique combination matches. However, for some reason, the hound reacts to Montag one day, and this was coincidentally or not the day where he thinks deeply about what he is doing with his life and actions. As the chief later says, the hound only reacts to a person if someone put in the chemical code for that person. Using this we can assume that the firefighters have been suspecting a bit on Montag’s behavior, and potentially his stolen books and the hound could be used as a warning. I think that Beatty knows or suspects highly what Montag is doing, which would be the reason for the constant joking around about jokes as well as trying to talk him into confessing his stolen books.
Jayden Cho
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(Part 2)
4) Montag is called to another burning, however, this time the experience is much different. This is after his conversations with Clarisse, and you can really tell he can see the wrongness and horrid actions he’s been doing this whole time. He and his firefighter team find the books and do what they regularly do, whilst laughing away without a care in the world. However, what confuses Montag this time is how the old woman who had been hiding the books is determinately wanting to burn herself with the books. This hits Montag hard for although he hasn’t ever read any of his books, he understands and is very curious after on what kind of knowledge could be in the books that is so important to readers that she would rather die with the books then stay in a society with more and more books burned by the day.
6) Montag finds out that a speeding car hit her and killed Clarisse. We are not given to much detail about the incident, but we can tell that the society didn’t seem to care for the death of one person, for it is very common. Even Clarisse explains to Montag, “Sometimes I'm ancient. I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always used to be that way? My uncle says no. Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car wrecks.” From this we can see how there is a lot of death and how everyone doesn’t really react to all of this, for it is so common. Even the doctors in the beginning of the chapter when treating Mildred remarked about how suicides and “accidents” happen all the time. It shows how blind Montag is, and only understands this now since it is happening to his personal friends/wife. Mildred is also shown as a representative of their society, she is informed 4 days before Montag about the incident, but “forgets” to tell Montag about this tragic incident. She is too blind and only lives in the moment, she later will forget and not really think about it too much, like the rest of the dystopian society.
7) He goes through a traumatic-like experience with the women and the burning house, and during this scheme he finds a book and hastily keeps it, probably to keep it in his book collection later shown in part 1. Montag acts like he is sick for multiple reasons. One could be that he understands what his actions are, and doesn’t want a single part in it and so is trying to figure out what he wants to do next. Another reason is he goes home and just wants to reflect on that night and deviate why the woman wanted to do her actions, and in doing so could lead to him curious enough to peer into the book stashed away under his pillow.
Lucy E.
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Part 1
1.) The book jumps into what is going on without really giving the reader any context as to where it takes place. What we gather from the interesting Part I is the firemen's name or title is their job description, they set things on fire. This is interesting because not only are they outlawing books they are burning homes and people. This book, however, is a lot like Anthem in the way that we see they are going to be educated and learn that what their society is teaching is wrong through the book. We can see from very early on in the book that this is a dystopian society because they are killing people for reading and possessing books. They instead are to rely on television for entertainment and education among other things, this sets them up to be indoctrinated.
2.) Guy Montag, the main character is such an interesting dense character. He is such a Maverick from Top Gun type of character, he goes and burns books, houses, and people and then goes home and deals with his wife who he thinks is OD’ing. When he encounters Clarisse McClellan he seems to treat her with such respect and enjoys talking to her. She has such a positive light and adds some sensitivity to Guys character that the audience can see when he talks to or about her. “He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shining drops of bright water, himself dark and tiny, in fine detail, the lines about his mouth, everything there, as if her eyes were two miraculous bits of violet amber that might capture and hold him intact” (pg. 3 Fahrenheit 451) As the continue to run into each other their relationship grows and he treats her like a daughter and she does not understand how he can stand to put up with her because she in to used to people being able to do that. It is cute and is an interesting way for the authors perspective to get in there. Guy starts intercepting books before they get burned and hides then and we can see that when Clarisse asks questions he also wonders and would like answers, and she seems like the only person looking and asking. Also, many people argue that kids are smarter than adults in some ways because they are questions and they are not as experienced so they do not have a fixed mindset and try everything and not just assuming something won’t work, much like adults do. She brings this to light in her repetitive questions asking and the need to see if her uncle is right by getting a second source.
3.) This book is interesting and among the things that shape it to be is the mechanical hound what is supposed to help the firemen kill and burn things. I don’t fully understand what their true purpose is yet but I think this will end up being in the plot twist somehow. someone could be playing a trick on him, but in order to know how to program I feel like learning to be able to do that requires some book reading. I think what the dog is supposed to pick up on peoples behavior and report to someone and have a reaction to the people who essentially decide to think back for themselves such as Montag.
Lucy E.
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Part 2
4.) In the book so far a woman decides she will give up her life if she can’t have the books. This brings some things to light for Montag, he is realizing or questioning the importance of books. In our history time and time again the way that we kept being enlightened was through placing importance in being educated. This woman is taking a stand saying if she can’t stand for anything she does not want to fall for anything. This situation seems like it would touch anyone, Montag has been told to burn books, homes, and people who get in his way and he does not ask any questions. Once he sees she is dying for a cause he thinks about the questions Clarisse asks him, it’s piqued his interest and made him question. “Then if what the Captain says is true, we'll burn them together, believe me, we'll burn them together.” (pg 32 od Fahrenheit 451). Also towards the end of part 1 we find out he had been stealing books and seriously hiding them away and he is involving his wife but he makes an agreement to look for things that contradict what they have been told and they are looking in the books to see if they are really doing the right things or if the people in authority are telling them something else.
6.) Toward the end of part 1 we find that the character that is a social castaway who has been bonding and showing the readers a softer side of Montag gets killed. There are little-to-no details about the accident (if we can even call it that). The readers see from Clarisse that she feels both unsafe and alone in her world, “Sometimes I'm ancient. I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way? My uncle says no. Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car wrecks. I'm afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm afraid.” She goes on to share what she has observed alone and says people in her world (school) don’t even talk about actual stuff it’s all about what is fun or cool. She likes to people watch and she draws most interest in talking to her uncle and she really listens. The readers see that when she conveys what she is told to Montag. Mildred seems ignorant through no one fault but her own. She forgets to mention what happened to Clarisse and then tells it with no bedside manner. She seems selfish and not like a strong character. Montag has to pull her together a little bit.
Ben Worthley
ReplyDelete#15: I think That Montag will start thinking on his own and start reading. Montag is a fireman his Job is to burn books. He must get curious about what he is burning. I feel as if he has to pick up a book and start to read to keep the plot of the book going. If he does start to read will he get arrested or maybe lose his job. His job is to Burn books and to burn peoples houses down so will his house get burned down?
#14: “The engine slammed to a stop. Beatty, Stoneman, and Black ran up the sidewalk, suddenly odious and fat in the plump fireproof slickers. Montag followed. They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. 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. Her tongue was moving in her mouth, and her eyes seemed to be trying to remember something, and then they remembered and her tongue moved again: " 'Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.' " in this passage you learn about what it is Montag dose in more depth. Montag and his fellow firemen come in and arrest the old woman who surprisingly did not put up much of a fight. She just stood there. What she said might be in the passage that Montag reads.
#4: I think the women chose to burn herself as well as the books because she wanted to make a statement. Those books were her own and in a society where books are illegal and you can’t go out and by them. She wanted to make a statement. She died for what she believed in. that books should not be illegal.
#1: in this dystopia, they are trying to band thinking. If you can’t read and write you can’t think. You need to be able to think if you want to write. The government is trying to get all the people to be one and the same. They have a ban on books and on walking. You can’t be free and have these laws in place.
#11: I think it was just a matter of time before he started to get curious. Montag knows if he gets caught with a book than he loses his job and his freedom. But at the same time, he wants to learn he wants to be able to read if he wants to.
Sophia Lakos
ReplyDelete1.)Clarisse was different than the others because she seemed to genuinely care about people and was more normal than others. “Every day Clarisse walked him to the corner.” Montag and Clarisse get along because he cares about what she has to say.
2.)Bettys explains that the reason they don’t want books is that it makes them think and learn more. Which the society did not like. "But if we did have some." "You got some?" Beatty blinked slowly. "No."
3.)Montag says he is sick because he is feeling guilty over stealing a book from a place he had burned down. He is so curious about books but knows that it is wrong so the guilt is eating at him. “Now, it plunged the book back under his arm, pressed it tight to sweating armpit, rushed out empty, with a magician's flourish! Look here! Innocent! Look!”
4.) I think that Montag will become interested in books and start secretly reading but also trying to keep his job.
5.) He is contemplating rebellion because he heard about the lady who had burned herself with her books.
1) Society values conformity and obedience, and the characters that do not follow these rules, such as Clarisse and Montag, pay the price. Fahrenheit 451 describes a futuristic society where the firemen start fires instead of putting them out. Also Books are not allowed in this society.
ReplyDelete2) In Fahrenheit 451, Clarisse is different than most of her peers because of her unique way of thinking. Clarisse is different from other people because of the distinctive way she looks at the world. She reveals this in her conversations with Montag. Clarisse also defies many social expectations. She thinks differently than everyone else. She also has compassion and cares for other people.
3) i think the mechanical dog has been programmed to react to montag because montag seems to have an enemy, and the mechanical dog had been set loose to hunt down him using his chemical complex, and his scent.
4) The woman was strongly affected by the presence of the firemen. It says,"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." The old woman chooses to burn with her books in order to voice her opposition to the practice of book burning. This obviously has a negative effect on Montag, and he is overwhelmed by guilt.
5) Montag watched a woman burn to death with her books by her side. This action is something that Montag simply can't handle and he feels really upset. Montag is supposed to go into work that day, but he tells his wife that he is sick. But not sick sick Montag is sick with guilt about his actions. A quote says "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."
James kiladis
Frankie Huntress
ReplyDelete1.) The book dives into what is happing without really giving the reader any history as to what is happing. What we get from the weird Part I is the firemen's name, fire fighters. This is fasiating because not only are they making books illegal they are burning homes and people. This book is a lot like Anthem in the way that we see they are going to be educated and learn that what their society is teaching is wrong through the book. “seventeen and insane”We can see from very early on in the book that this is a dystopian society because they are killing people for reading and possessing books. They instead are to rely on television for entertainment and education among other things, this sets them up to be indoctrinated.
2)What sets Clarisse and different individuals in their tragic culture separated are numerous things. Right off the bat, her family itself and particularly her uncle are referenced as not doing a significant number of the "normal" exercises a family would do in their general public. In any case, Clarisse is open about her brain, and in a way can be viewed as daring and not minding of what others think about her, which could be weighty if doubts emerge. At the point when Montag begins meeting her all the more frequently, he supposes profoundly to what she says, and his interest gets revealed and is edified to genuinely observe and comprehend what he and his general public have been doing this time. Clarisse additionally appears to see a distinction in Montag contrasted with other individuals, for she comments, “You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me. No one has time any more for anyone else. 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."(Pg. 11, Fahrenheit 451)
3.) This book is intriguing and among the things that shape it to be is the “mechanical hound”what should help the fire fighters murder and consume things. I don't completely comprehend what their actual reason for existing is yet however I think this will finish up being in the plot curve by one way or another. somebody could be pulling a prank on him, yet so as to realize how to program I crave figuring out how to have the option to do that requires some book perusing. I think what the pooch should get on people groups conduct and report to somebody and have a response to the general population who basically choose to recollect for themselves, for example, Montag.
Frankie Huntress
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Part 2
7)He experiences an awful like involvement with the ladies and the consuming house, and amid this plan he finds a book and quickly keeps it, most likely to keep it in his book accumulation later appeared to some extent 1. Montag acts like he is wiped out for different reasons. One could be that he comprehends what his activities are, and doesn't need a solitary part in it as is endeavoring to make sense of what he needs to do straightaway. Another reason is he returns home and simply needs to consider that night and digress why the lady needed to do her activities, and in doing as such could prompt him sufficiently inquisitive to look into the book buried under his pad.
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After Beatty leaves the Montag home, Fellow and Mildred keep talking, and the discussion floats to what is most likely the greatest inquiry Clarisse had ever posed to the fire fighter: "Are you happy?" Mildred rushes to react by saying that she is and is glad for it, obviously she will be she's as upbeat as she's at any point been, as cheerful as she's at any point known. Montag's absence of such emotions most likely originates from his start to address everything, and losing the feeling of satisfaction that has been customized into everybody. What the inquiry is really posing, however, isn't "are you happy", but "are you content". Also, as recently expressed, Mildred is on the grounds that she has known simply what she has, yet Montag isn't on the grounds that he is simply finding that there is significance past his general public.
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2- Clarisse is different from other people because she thinks and tells people the things she thinks without being fearful of what other people will think of her. Montag listens and accepts Clarisse's way of thinking; after listening to Clarisse he starts to notice things around him like the long billboards, how nobody talks about different things, and how thinking is a privilege that is being wiped away from their society, “‘It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think.’”.
3- I believe that the hound reacts tp Montag because he's begun to think about the problems in his society instead of just marking them off as normal, like everyone else. The hound might also be resistant towards him because it seems as if he has stolen a book from one of the burnt houses.
4- The woman burns herself along with the books because she knows she couldn’t stand to live without them; living without her books would put her in the dark and she put her beliefs over her life. She died for her books, she thinks that everyone should be able to think and read.
7- Montag gets “sick” because he witnessed a women burn herself alive, he also found out about Clarisse's death. He takes days off from work because he is worried that people will know that he took a book, or that the hound will sniff him out. Montag really looked up to Clarisse even though he was much older than her; she opened his eyes to the corruptions that his society had been hiding from. I think that Montag took the book because of Clarisse, if he hadn’t met her he would never think to do something that could get him in so much trouble.
11- Clarisse’s death triggers Montag to steal a book. Montag always thought that Clarisse was odd in a rational way, so how could books be as dangerous as society portrays them. In the beginning of the book, Clarisse asks Montag a scandalous question.,"Do you ever read any of the books you burn?". I think that Montag thought of this when he decided to take a book. Another reason that Montag stole the book was because the lady was willing to die rather than live without learning and thinking. He must’ve thought that if it were worth dying over, it was worth taking
Davis Blanch
ReplyDelete3) The mechanical hound has been programmed to react to Montag because the dog finds people that are different to everyone else, so it growls and threatens Montag.
4) I think the woman burned herself with her books because she doesn't want to be caught and punished for owning the books. It shows that people are willing to die just so the books don't get destroyed by the firemen.
6) Montag found out that Clarisse was run over by a car. Mildred already knew what had happened but withheld the information from Montag until he asked about her.
7) Montag gets”sick” to take a break from being a fireman, he was a bit saddened by killing the woman with her books. Montag also took one of her books and was scared of being caught.
9) Beatty’s explanation for the current state of their society is they didn't want books. He says that it made them think so they became angry at books.
Gannon Sylvester
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Montag lives in a society which is ruled by a government that is very strict and does not allow conspiring behind the back of the law. It is similar to my society because people still care about things like books and doing the right thing.
Clarisse is a character in the book and she cares for people and likes to do the right thing. She also believes that is is very wrong to burn the books. Montag is very hesitant and thinks about her and what she has said before he must do his job.
The mechanical hound which is an advanced piece of technology that has been programmed to react to Montag's actions and he then feels deeply about what he is doing and with his work.
6. Montag soon finds out that Clarisse was hit and killed by a speeding car and no one really seems to care about the incident. This shows how Montag is not always aware of what is going on around him.
7. Montag has a traumatic experience with the burning house with the women and he then finds a book, breaking the law, he keeps it to figure out why so many people want them burned and why the handful that wants them to not be burned.
Peyton Levental
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 clarisse so special is that she is a thinker. She is not like the rest most likely because she reads and has her own thoughts. Montag also is a thinker, this is what makes him so receptive to her. “How immense a figure she was on the stage before him;
what a shadow she threw on the wall with her slender body!” (5)
3. Why do you think the mechanical hound has been programmed to react to Montag?
I believe the mechanical hound was programmed to react to Montag because Montag has a enemy who on to him, the enemy set the mechanical hound to Montag's chemical complex & let it loose. “Montag touched the muzzle. The Hound growled. Montag jumped back.” (12)
7. Why does Montag get “sick” and try to avoid going to work?
When Montag took part in a large fire, he burned thousands of books & caused death of a woman who owned the house. Montag also stole a book and that made him felt guilt.
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 believe the woman chose to burn herself with her books because she would rather die than see them being burned. This held a powerful effect on Montag because if she's willing to die for the books then they have some kind of importance and that made Montag think
9. What is Beatty’s explanation for the current state of their society?
What Beatty’s explanation says is that their society didn't want books. He says that it made them think and that's why they became angry at books.
Mitch Keamy
ReplyDelete4. I think the woman burned herself along with her books to make a statement. She felt oppressed that they were confiscating her literature. It's also possible that the woman wanted to die because she had no books but i think it was a protest about burning her books.
6. Montag finds out that mildred doesn't care about clarisse. This tells us that in their society they don't really have feelings and they care mostly about material things.
7. Montag faked sick and skipped work because he took part in a vicious book burning and the guilt was weighing heavily on him. The fire also destroyed a house and took the life of the woman inside which pained him the most. He also stole a book during the burning and altogether he could not handle the shame.
9. Beatty’s explanation for the current state of their society is that books cause people to think (thinking is something they avoid) and therefore there should be no books allowed because they are a threat to their society
11. Montag lost interest in book burning when the lady committed suicide along with her books. She was so attached to her books that she wanted to die with them. Montag was curious why the lady cared so much about her books so he decided to read one. He was intrigued by the novel and enjoyed learning about the past. This changed his views and opened his eyes to what was happening in their society and realized it was wrong.
Mitch Keamy
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;) Thanks, Mitch.
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