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.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
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.
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!
COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
NEW VOCABULARY
Pedantry - noun; slavish attention to rules, details, etc
Odious - adjective; deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable
Luxuriant - adjective; 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
Odious - adjective; deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable
Luxuriant - adjective; 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.
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