Friday, November 21, 2014

Pages 120-130
After Guy burnt captain Beatty, beat the snot out of the other two firemen with them, he gets attacked by the mechanical hound and gets most of the injected in the leg. He then tried to run away down the alley, crying and pleading with his leg to move. He runs away towards Faber's house but realizes he can't go there in fear that he will be in danger too. So he keeps walking then a car full of teens almost run him over.
The importance is that Montag is finally leaving his old life to be free from the rules of being a firemen.

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Pages 90-100
Faber gives Montag an earpiece similar to the ones Guy's wife uses uses but this one is way for the two to communicate from different locations.
When Montag goes home Mildred's friends come over and they go into the TV parlor. Montag follows and stands by the door before switching off the TV walls. The women become nervous by this action and start to fidget around. Montag starts a conversation and we see the vies of these women on children, which many do not want but the one woman with children only sees them three days a month. When they discuss politics it all about the appearance of the president that concerned the women and swayed their votes. Montag found this ridiculous and started yelling at Fable through the earpieces and grabs a book. Mildred tried to play it as a joke and has Montag read a poem to the women.
The importance of this is that no one cares about the intelligence of the president just his looks, outside features that should be meaningless. That no one really cares about how the person governs as long as someone visually pleasing is there to tell them what to do.

figurative language:
"The images drained away, as if the water had been let from a gigantic crystal bowl of hysterical fish."
Pages 80-90
Guy goes to Faber, the old english professor's, house and demands to speak with him. Skeptical at first the old man was timid when letting the confused firemen into his home. Guy showed him the Bible and Faber looked at the book in awe. Fable tells Guy about the three things needed for books to matter again.
Number one; quality of information
number two; leisure to digest it
number three; the right to carry out the actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two
After this they discuss about finding a printer to make copies of the books, planting them in other firemen's homes to create suspicion.
The importance of these pages is we see how there are many others who want the same as Guy, to get books back and the lengths that the two man alone are willing to go for this cause. Acts of rebellion is started to form in their minds.

Figurative language:
"They show the pores of the face of life"

Vocabulary:
dentifrice -  a paste or power for cleaning teeth

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Part Two: The Sieve and the Sand
Pages 71-80
After trying to read the entire afternoon and listening Mildred complain the entire time, Guy becomes frustrated and remembers an old man met about a year ago, who he suspected was holding a book in his coat but said nothing about it. The man was an english professor named Fable. He tries the call the professor but the man thought it was a trap and refused to speak of books with Guy.
After that Guy leave his home to the subway where he stayed for a while just holding the bible in his hands. He feels as if he is losing his mind and opens the book in the middle everyone and reads. The next stop he runs from the train, just running.
I'm not too sure of the importance of this section but I think has to do with the fact that he is finished listening to the firemen and his wife that books are bad. He intends on reading as much as he can.

Figurative language:
"filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over:"
Pages 60-68
Montag finishes listening to Beatty's lecture and is shocked at the realization just how controlled his world is. After the captain leaves, Montag finally tells he's wife about the books he has been hoarding in the air vent in the house. She is completely taken aback and gets one of them and tries to burn it. Guy stops her and explains that they are in this together and to give 48 hours and they will burn the books together. Beatty returns knocking on the door and Guy tells Mildred to ignore it and they sit and Guy read a book to her.
I think the element of him saying "together" is important because it's showing how much he really needs someone to help him figure everything out and trying to mend their breaking marriage.

figurative language:
"it is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than summit to break their eggs at the smaller end."
I think is saying the people have rather died that conform to the ways of society.
In pages 53-60 Captain Beatty comes to Montag's house, already suspecting that he was going to call in sick for the night. Beatty says he has seen whats wrong with Montag lots of times and we learn the correct history of the firemen and how them came to be. After everything started to become easier of people the need for books because less and less and they started to become an innocence
The significance of the firemen was to eliminate the unhappy things. This is important because we see how by the way people don't have to think they stop thinking they need education and the society has lost that intelligence.

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

In the pages you read yesterday (I can't remember the numbers) we know about the "family". Characters on the tv that people have be gnu to address as uncle, aunt, or cousin. In this we see how detached people have come from each other. We also learn what happened to Clarisse, turns out she got hit by a car four days before Montag know. He was extremely upset at his wife for not telling him about this.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

In pages 31-40 we see the firemen go on a call and its unexpected outcome. This was a stepping stone in the story where we see the first act of rebellion for the people against burning our books. The elderly woman burns yourself alive with her books, refusing to let them be taken away. When they describe the firemen there are a lot of similes and connections with fire.
 COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

NEW VOCABULARY

Pedantry - noun; slavish attention to rules, details, etc

Odiousadjective; deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable


Luxuriantadjective; richly abundant, profuse, or superabundant


Dictum - noun; an authoritative pronouncement; judicial assertion


Cacophony - noun; a harsh, discordant mixture of sound


Proclivity - noun; a tendency to choose or do something regularly


Proboscis - noun; the nose of a mammal


Stratum - noun; a level or class to which people are assigned according to their social status, education, or income


Mausoleum - noun; a building; a large and stately one, housing a tomb or tombs


Marionette - noun; a puppet worked from above by strings attached to its limbs.


Phoenix - noun; a mythical creature; a unique bird that lived for five or six centuries in the Arabian desert, after this time burning itself on a funeral pyre and rising from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle
In the section we read of Farenheit 451, the readers are introduced to the Mechanical Hound. A robot the 8 spider legs and paws that inject deadly amounts morphing into the victims. Montag believes that the robot hates him, even through the other firemen believe he is just being paranoid. The robot has to feelings besides what he is told to feel, but Guy doesn't believe that either.

Monday, November 3, 2014

In pages 15-24 in Fahrenheit 451 we get a glimpse at how Montag and his wife interact with one another. It's a very reserved and cold way that they speak with each other, the wife always on her ear pieces or in the tv room. On Montag's way to work though, he founds Clarisse again. they have a brief conversation, and she tells him that the dandelion can tell if you are in love. It said he was not and he became defensive and refused to accept that accusation.