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LORD OF THE FLIES
Monday, April 7, 2008
QUESTION 1
1. Who are the main characters in the novel? Do you like them? Why or why not? What is special about them? What do they reveal about the universal human experience?
The main characters in this novel contain a lot of characters of little boys.
Just to name a few;
Ralph: He is twelve years old who is elected to be the leader of the group, in the beginning of the novel. He is quite mature for his age and he plans to build a civilization of his own until they are rescued from the island. He was picked the leader because the boys knew that he would be the most mature and have good leadership skills in him to do the right thing. As in the other boys (the choir boys), they are concerned with just playing around the island and not doing any work. He is mostly the leader who keeps himself together. He never would follow any other rules to be in the band wagon with the other children, although he was just left with Piggy and Simon as his only companions.
Jack: Jack is the rebellious boy of the pack. At first, when he lost the election to Ralph he was furious. So then became the leader of the hunters. As a leader, you should’ve been able to catch animals but when he failed, he became more barbaric. Then as the novel progresses, he wants more and more power. As he tries to get gain full power, he is the first one to be influenced by violent thoughts and knew that the more savage-like he became, he caught more animals.
Simon: He is known as someone who doesn’t take sides and is just a good willed person. He doesn’t take sides because he doesn’t want to be involved in fights. Simon is in his own way, by that I mean he’s in his own world of peace and kindness. Since he doesn’t stand on any side of the pack, he’s the first one to realize the problem during the lord of the flies.
In this story, I had different thoughts about the characters all through the novel. The personalities of the boys were changing all through the novel. At first I liked Jack because I seem to like people who are rebellious. But near the end I found out that Jack was being too rebellious. It wasn’t even being rebellious; it was just completely being another person and jeopardizing the group of surviving. Near the end and middle I started to like Jack and Simon because they were doing the right things. This shows us why a lot of people rebel. They want their own pride. Any human being is selfish enough to want to have more power and gain them.
The main characters in this novel contain a lot of characters of little boys.
Just to name a few;
Ralph: He is twelve years old who is elected to be the leader of the group, in the beginning of the novel. He is quite mature for his age and he plans to build a civilization of his own until they are rescued from the island. He was picked the leader because the boys knew that he would be the most mature and have good leadership skills in him to do the right thing. As in the other boys (the choir boys), they are concerned with just playing around the island and not doing any work. He is mostly the leader who keeps himself together. He never would follow any other rules to be in the band wagon with the other children, although he was just left with Piggy and Simon as his only companions.
Jack: Jack is the rebellious boy of the pack. At first, when he lost the election to Ralph he was furious. So then became the leader of the hunters. As a leader, you should’ve been able to catch animals but when he failed, he became more barbaric. Then as the novel progresses, he wants more and more power. As he tries to get gain full power, he is the first one to be influenced by violent thoughts and knew that the more savage-like he became, he caught more animals.
Simon: He is known as someone who doesn’t take sides and is just a good willed person. He doesn’t take sides because he doesn’t want to be involved in fights. Simon is in his own way, by that I mean he’s in his own world of peace and kindness. Since he doesn’t stand on any side of the pack, he’s the first one to realize the problem during the lord of the flies.
In this story, I had different thoughts about the characters all through the novel. The personalities of the boys were changing all through the novel. At first I liked Jack because I seem to like people who are rebellious. But near the end I found out that Jack was being too rebellious. It wasn’t even being rebellious; it was just completely being another person and jeopardizing the group of surviving. Near the end and middle I started to like Jack and Simon because they were doing the right things. This shows us why a lot of people rebel. They want their own pride. Any human being is selfish enough to want to have more power and gain them.
QUESTION 2
2. What is the mood of this novel? Do you find this novel saddens you in any way? Why?
The mood of this novel is very unique. It changes throughout the novel for me. When I first read this book, I felt a sort of mixed feelings as if I was the boys. I was very sad because the airplane that was supposed to evacuate them to safety have been shot down into a deserted island. Although it’s harsh, I felt their excitement at the same time. It would seem sensational living somewhere with a group of your friends in a deserted island. The best part is you can feel like a real adult and find your own food and water to live on.
As the boys start out living in the deserted island, they slowly realize it wasn’t as they thought it’d be. The mood slowly changes into a dark sensational feeling through mostly the rest of the novel. It started when Jack strongly rebelled against Ralph and his crew. Many of the boys started to get influenced by it. You feel more comfortable with someone who is a strong leader of the pack so they started to make Jack the leader. This caused a big domino of a dark and malicious feeling through out. You could feel the tension between the boys. Even though they were in one group, they weren’t feeling like they were a part of a group. The boys always had to watch their backs because they were scared something might’ve happened to them. You shouldn’t want to feel that way because that’s what being in a group is all about. Near the end of the story, when the solider comes to rescue them, the whole mood of darkness and violence seemed to be fading away. It felt like when the solider came back to rescue them, it was like hugging their parents as a relief and letting all your feels out. This is one of the importances of having parents.
The mood of this novel is very unique. It changes throughout the novel for me. When I first read this book, I felt a sort of mixed feelings as if I was the boys. I was very sad because the airplane that was supposed to evacuate them to safety have been shot down into a deserted island. Although it’s harsh, I felt their excitement at the same time. It would seem sensational living somewhere with a group of your friends in a deserted island. The best part is you can feel like a real adult and find your own food and water to live on.
As the boys start out living in the deserted island, they slowly realize it wasn’t as they thought it’d be. The mood slowly changes into a dark sensational feeling through mostly the rest of the novel. It started when Jack strongly rebelled against Ralph and his crew. Many of the boys started to get influenced by it. You feel more comfortable with someone who is a strong leader of the pack so they started to make Jack the leader. This caused a big domino of a dark and malicious feeling through out. You could feel the tension between the boys. Even though they were in one group, they weren’t feeling like they were a part of a group. The boys always had to watch their backs because they were scared something might’ve happened to them. You shouldn’t want to feel that way because that’s what being in a group is all about. Near the end of the story, when the solider comes to rescue them, the whole mood of darkness and violence seemed to be fading away. It felt like when the solider came back to rescue them, it was like hugging their parents as a relief and letting all your feels out. This is one of the importances of having parents.
QUESTION 3
3. Entry of your choice.
I really liked this novel because it showed the influences of society through an adventurous story. The human universal questions are answered through his book. I haven’t read such a unique story like this in my life. If there are stories like these, they mostly just go straight to the setting of a society possibly at school or a work place. But I could see that this novel is different from any other interesting stories with the same theme.
The main theme of the story truly got me thinking about the scriptures and stories of the bible. The Lord of the flies shows us the inherent evil of man with no moral compasses. We humans will always go back to their primal urges and desires of sins. We have a loss of innocence and this relates to the story of the Lord of the Flies to the story of Adam and Eve. Eve was tempted by the snake in to eat the apple in the tree and before thinking about it she sinned. Then when the influence of Eve to Adam shows us the influence when Jack had become to leader and he too influenced the other children to join him. The loss of innocence was when Eve and Adam both realized that they were naked when they finished eating the apple. This compares to when they killed the kid. They realized how valuable life was and how they could be so violent.
I really liked this novel because it showed the influences of society through an adventurous story. The human universal questions are answered through his book. I haven’t read such a unique story like this in my life. If there are stories like these, they mostly just go straight to the setting of a society possibly at school or a work place. But I could see that this novel is different from any other interesting stories with the same theme.
The main theme of the story truly got me thinking about the scriptures and stories of the bible. The Lord of the flies shows us the inherent evil of man with no moral compasses. We humans will always go back to their primal urges and desires of sins. We have a loss of innocence and this relates to the story of the Lord of the Flies to the story of Adam and Eve. Eve was tempted by the snake in to eat the apple in the tree and before thinking about it she sinned. Then when the influence of Eve to Adam shows us the influence when Jack had become to leader and he too influenced the other children to join him. The loss of innocence was when Eve and Adam both realized that they were naked when they finished eating the apple. This compares to when they killed the kid. They realized how valuable life was and how they could be so violent.
QUESTION 4
4. Are there any settings in this novel which you have found to be beautiful? Or disturbing? Or memorable? Describe these settings and comment on why they were meaningful to you.
Although his novel only has one setting, it brought a lot of emotions into my mind. At first when you imagine the slight breeze of school boys walking out of the misty fog and in the back of them is the plane that had crashed. You could imagine them like from the drama Lost. At first that kind of setting got me to think of happy pleasant thoughts of a tropical island. You could just feel the warm sand between your toes and the waves’ running back and fourth with the misty bubbles of the water touching your toes and over your sandals. Unfortunately, this was just the beginning of the novel. Later on when conflicted started to erode, it wasn’t very pleasant. The hunters (Jack’s pack of choir boys whose jobs were to hunt for food) were very violent.
There was a point where Jack wasn’t used to the killing and violence of things because he was just an innocent English school boy going to school without having to think about anything like that. There was a point where he had caught a pig and if he didn’t kill it in that second it would get away. Jack just couldn’t kill the poor innocent animal. That was when the whole setting of the book started to feel dark. Something overcame inside him that was like anger. He was mad at himself because he was supposed to be the leader of the pack and it seemed like he was too chicken to kill the pig. You could see he was ashamed of himself and he just wanted to do anything to not become so weak hearted. That’s when he turned savage like with no heart. I thought this was very strongly affected to me because it really showed me how people under pressure feel. If it’s not you then you don’t care. But thinking about other people, you could feel that pressure could change how they react and how they can change just in a situation like that.
Although his novel only has one setting, it brought a lot of emotions into my mind. At first when you imagine the slight breeze of school boys walking out of the misty fog and in the back of them is the plane that had crashed. You could imagine them like from the drama Lost. At first that kind of setting got me to think of happy pleasant thoughts of a tropical island. You could just feel the warm sand between your toes and the waves’ running back and fourth with the misty bubbles of the water touching your toes and over your sandals. Unfortunately, this was just the beginning of the novel. Later on when conflicted started to erode, it wasn’t very pleasant. The hunters (Jack’s pack of choir boys whose jobs were to hunt for food) were very violent.
There was a point where Jack wasn’t used to the killing and violence of things because he was just an innocent English school boy going to school without having to think about anything like that. There was a point where he had caught a pig and if he didn’t kill it in that second it would get away. Jack just couldn’t kill the poor innocent animal. That was when the whole setting of the book started to feel dark. Something overcame inside him that was like anger. He was mad at himself because he was supposed to be the leader of the pack and it seemed like he was too chicken to kill the pig. You could see he was ashamed of himself and he just wanted to do anything to not become so weak hearted. That’s when he turned savage like with no heart. I thought this was very strongly affected to me because it really showed me how people under pressure feel. If it’s not you then you don’t care. But thinking about other people, you could feel that pressure could change how they react and how they can change just in a situation like that.
QUESTION 5
5. What is the major theme of this novel? Why is this theme important to a teenager living in 2007?
The major theme of this novel is that society affects the way people react. It takes a lot of heart to do what’s right. Just like how Jack influences most of the boys. When Jack’s hunger and thirst driven for power makes him like a savage. Slowly before he knows it, the wilderness turns him greedy and hungrier for power as he goes along the novel. As the hunter boys start to complain about how hard living on the island is, that’s when Jack influences them. So as he starts to influence them, Ralph is left alone along with Piggy as his only companion. This theme just covers the whole human society of how they react. It is to tell us that you should follow your heart no matter what the situation you’re in. Just do the right thing and it will all be okay.
This theme is one of the most important themes for a teenager living in this world today. These days, we teenagers are seeing role models in different ways. We see them as celebrity stars or people who we think have great physique to look up to. It is all controlled by the media for us to think this way. This explains a lot about why the 21st century has a lot of sins. They follow what everyone else does and if it’s not acceptable in the society, you become an outcast. Being an outcast is more than just not having friends, but wasting your life with nothing to do. These days, many teenagers’ goals are not to become outcasts. They know what the consequences are of being one, so they follow the bandwagon of what everyone else does. For example, there are a lot of girls who feel they need to lose weight and possibly be anorexic to look pretty. What they don’t know is that being anorexic looks extremely bad. This is what blinds you in society. You don’t realize that it’s happening to you, and you realize when you start to regret about your life.
QUESTION 6
6. Are there any current situations in the world that relate to the novel? What are they, and how do they relate? Does the novel shed any light on how current situations could be resolved or “fixed”?
There are a lot of events that are going around the world. One of the main events that affects a lot of people these days are Hollywood celebrities mostly in the United States. These celebrities are affected by both the criticism of the media and a lot of them are affected by us. What we don’t know is that we judge someone everyday without knowing who they really are. This issue has caused a lot of problems within a lot of people. This relates to the novel because society and the whole meaning of the bandwagon affects a lot of problems amongst people. So when Jack turned against Ralph, a couple of people were on Jack’s side. Jack seemingly a stronger leader than Ralph; one by one they were affected by the influence and pressure of joining Jack. This is just like our modern day society. The strongest one wins no matter what the problem is. Just like the modern day anorexic celebrities and models. They are influenced so much by the media because they have their pictures in magazines and they call them fat. You’re never really perfect to the media. You’re either too fat or too skinny, and I think that is a problem that is influencing too many people these days.
This problem should be resolved by the celebrities. If the media won’t stop their criticism, they celebrities should be an example by following their own ways. If they gained a little bit of weight, they shouldn’t starve themselves to be anorexic just because of what the media says. They should know that they’re beautiful and they’re already famous so there’s no need to be more famous.
There are a lot of events that are going around the world. One of the main events that affects a lot of people these days are Hollywood celebrities mostly in the United States. These celebrities are affected by both the criticism of the media and a lot of them are affected by us. What we don’t know is that we judge someone everyday without knowing who they really are. This issue has caused a lot of problems within a lot of people. This relates to the novel because society and the whole meaning of the bandwagon affects a lot of problems amongst people. So when Jack turned against Ralph, a couple of people were on Jack’s side. Jack seemingly a stronger leader than Ralph; one by one they were affected by the influence and pressure of joining Jack. This is just like our modern day society. The strongest one wins no matter what the problem is. Just like the modern day anorexic celebrities and models. They are influenced so much by the media because they have their pictures in magazines and they call them fat. You’re never really perfect to the media. You’re either too fat or too skinny, and I think that is a problem that is influencing too many people these days.
This problem should be resolved by the celebrities. If the media won’t stop their criticism, they celebrities should be an example by following their own ways. If they gained a little bit of weight, they shouldn’t starve themselves to be anorexic just because of what the media says. They should know that they’re beautiful and they’re already famous so there’s no need to be more famous.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Fahrenheit 451 :)
Q.1: Who are the main characters in the novel? Do you like them? Why or why not? What is special about them? What do they reveal about the universal human experience?
A: The main characters in the novel are a fireman named Guy Montag and a seventeen-year-old named Clarisse McClellan. Those two are totally different people with different points of views. Clarisse McClellan is a seventeen-year-old who shows Montag the beauty of life by her natural innocence and her curiosity towards life.
She sticks with Montag because she's an outcast from her society. This is because many people think she's odd and has odd behaviors like picking up flowers from the valley by herself and is just an unusual girl who doesn't have a care in the world. Clarisse doesn't seem to mind what people think of her and is happy most of the time, but still cares about what the world is becoming or has become. I like Clarisse McClellan in this novel because she knows how to be herself and express what's right or wrong. In the recent society, it's easy to lose yourself. Clarisse McClellan just does whatever she wanted and expresses herself to some of the highest people in society. Guy Montag was quite a high person in society to be looked up in this novel. This is what I most liked about her, she stood up to him and told him what was on her mind and didn't hesitate to ask any curious questions that was appealed to her.
Guy Montag is a futuristic Fireman who burn books for a living. His generation has taught him to make fire to burn books rather than put them out for people in trouble. Guy Montag is a very influential man who is gullible at the same time. He's loyal because he does what he's told. The bad thing about that is that he doesn't think for himself. He feels passion in helping the community and the war itself. I didn’t like this character at first because he was very narrow minded as to literature and writing. I didn’t like that he never thought for himself and always had to obey or do what he’s told without thinking it over. When he finds himself there was something that made you want him to be your leader. He took charge when to and helped others in not burning books. He also did it in a way that suppressed others to follow him and look for help.
A: The main characters in the novel are a fireman named Guy Montag and a seventeen-year-old named Clarisse McClellan. Those two are totally different people with different points of views. Clarisse McClellan is a seventeen-year-old who shows Montag the beauty of life by her natural innocence and her curiosity towards life.
She sticks with Montag because she's an outcast from her society. This is because many people think she's odd and has odd behaviors like picking up flowers from the valley by herself and is just an unusual girl who doesn't have a care in the world. Clarisse doesn't seem to mind what people think of her and is happy most of the time, but still cares about what the world is becoming or has become. I like Clarisse McClellan in this novel because she knows how to be herself and express what's right or wrong. In the recent society, it's easy to lose yourself. Clarisse McClellan just does whatever she wanted and expresses herself to some of the highest people in society. Guy Montag was quite a high person in society to be looked up in this novel. This is what I most liked about her, she stood up to him and told him what was on her mind and didn't hesitate to ask any curious questions that was appealed to her.
Guy Montag is a futuristic Fireman who burn books for a living. His generation has taught him to make fire to burn books rather than put them out for people in trouble. Guy Montag is a very influential man who is gullible at the same time. He's loyal because he does what he's told. The bad thing about that is that he doesn't think for himself. He feels passion in helping the community and the war itself. I didn’t like this character at first because he was very narrow minded as to literature and writing. I didn’t like that he never thought for himself and always had to obey or do what he’s told without thinking it over. When he finds himself there was something that made you want him to be your leader. He took charge when to and helped others in not burning books. He also did it in a way that suppressed others to follow him and look for help.
CONTIUNEDDDDDD...
Q. 2: What is the climax of this novel? What happens? How do the events of this novel make you feel?
A: The climax of this story is when Guy Montag kills Captain Beatty. After always trying to find his own way, and to really fight the enemy was to kill Captain Beatty. And when he did that, that was his real decision of making his choice on his own to say that he chose to stand up for what he thinks is right.
It all started when an alarm rang and Guy Montag went to where the alarm was ringing from and suprisingly it was his own house. His wife had betrayed him and finds that his wife has taken a cab to leave him. Beatty, Montag's boss forces him the burn his own house down so Montag could feel the shame of keeping the literary books. Montag then has no choice but to. Then after Beatty places him under arrest for breaking the law of keeping books when he's not allowed to. Montag felt like this was the time to make his own choice so he punches him in the face and he threw the flamethrower on Beatty and he started to burn. Other firemen starts to come after him and he attacks the other firemen unconscious. Then a mechanical hound that Beatty has set it to attack on Montag, and it stabs Montag's leg with a dose of anesthetics. Montag gets away by throwing the flamethrower and destroying it. He tries to run away with the pain of the numbness in his leg carrying some books.
When i was reading this part of the climax, I could feel the tension and the fighting going on during the climax. When Montag finally decided to break free from Beatty the captain, and even kill him it was a relief. I don't mean relief as in I hated him that much so i can kill him, but I liked how Montag finally stood up for what he wanted to do and what he believed in. It truely shows that he's changed in the different events that have occured throughout his life. It was a big relief to me to know that he's finally found his own way through and knows how to think and act for himself.
A: The climax of this story is when Guy Montag kills Captain Beatty. After always trying to find his own way, and to really fight the enemy was to kill Captain Beatty. And when he did that, that was his real decision of making his choice on his own to say that he chose to stand up for what he thinks is right.
It all started when an alarm rang and Guy Montag went to where the alarm was ringing from and suprisingly it was his own house. His wife had betrayed him and finds that his wife has taken a cab to leave him. Beatty, Montag's boss forces him the burn his own house down so Montag could feel the shame of keeping the literary books. Montag then has no choice but to. Then after Beatty places him under arrest for breaking the law of keeping books when he's not allowed to. Montag felt like this was the time to make his own choice so he punches him in the face and he threw the flamethrower on Beatty and he started to burn. Other firemen starts to come after him and he attacks the other firemen unconscious. Then a mechanical hound that Beatty has set it to attack on Montag, and it stabs Montag's leg with a dose of anesthetics. Montag gets away by throwing the flamethrower and destroying it. He tries to run away with the pain of the numbness in his leg carrying some books.
When i was reading this part of the climax, I could feel the tension and the fighting going on during the climax. When Montag finally decided to break free from Beatty the captain, and even kill him it was a relief. I don't mean relief as in I hated him that much so i can kill him, but I liked how Montag finally stood up for what he wanted to do and what he believed in. It truely shows that he's changed in the different events that have occured throughout his life. It was a big relief to me to know that he's finally found his own way through and knows how to think and act for himself.
FAHRENHEIT 451
Q. 3: Are there any current situations in the world that relate to the novel? What are they, and how do they relate? Does the novel shed any light on how current situations could be resolved or "fixed”?
A: This situation isn’t very recent, but is historical. It existed during the 1933’s. The Nazi soldiers were ordered to burn books that were against Nazi ideology. They too didn’t know what to do and they couldn’t rebel against Hitler or the army leaders because they would face a punishment so harsh, and possibly death. This very similarly relates with the situation in Guy Montag’s Case because he’s a so called fireman who burns books because his boss orders him to. Yet that boss isn’t the nucleus of the orderings. There’s a highest leader who commands them to because the ruler wanted the people to be for war and against anything else. It also has a significant similarity because in the novel and in the 1933’s it they found people who has those books and ordered them to be arrested and resulting in the books being all burned.
The closest to this event would be in North Korea. How the North Korean communist leader is in luxury when millions of people are starving on the streets with no freedom and no human rights. The most similarity is the killing of the Chrstians or religous people. They'd burn bibles along with people if they rebelled and protested. I wouldn't say there was any way to resolve or fix the situation but to just help the North Koreans out. Violance doesn't solve anything, but as we help the starving poor families in poverty, we should try and overthrow the North Korean leader.
Even though there aren’t any serious events that have occured, I think we should think about our present day life with books. If we didn’t have books we wouldn't have learned all the things we learn from books now. We should be happy how our country has alot of freedom and doesn't have the burning of the books. So we can read freely and anything we want.
A: This situation isn’t very recent, but is historical. It existed during the 1933’s. The Nazi soldiers were ordered to burn books that were against Nazi ideology. They too didn’t know what to do and they couldn’t rebel against Hitler or the army leaders because they would face a punishment so harsh, and possibly death. This very similarly relates with the situation in Guy Montag’s Case because he’s a so called fireman who burns books because his boss orders him to. Yet that boss isn’t the nucleus of the orderings. There’s a highest leader who commands them to because the ruler wanted the people to be for war and against anything else. It also has a significant similarity because in the novel and in the 1933’s it they found people who has those books and ordered them to be arrested and resulting in the books being all burned.
The closest to this event would be in North Korea. How the North Korean communist leader is in luxury when millions of people are starving on the streets with no freedom and no human rights. The most similarity is the killing of the Chrstians or religous people. They'd burn bibles along with people if they rebelled and protested. I wouldn't say there was any way to resolve or fix the situation but to just help the North Koreans out. Violance doesn't solve anything, but as we help the starving poor families in poverty, we should try and overthrow the North Korean leader.
Even though there aren’t any serious events that have occured, I think we should think about our present day life with books. If we didn’t have books we wouldn't have learned all the things we learn from books now. We should be happy how our country has alot of freedom and doesn't have the burning of the books. So we can read freely and anything we want.
Fahrenheit 451 (continued)
Q. 4: Are there any settings in this novel which you have found to be beautiful? Or disturbing? Or memorable? Describe these settings and comment on why they were meaningful to you.
A: Some of the disturbing settings of the book was when the old woman would rather burn with her books rather than to just give up.Yet at the same time it was very memorable. The mood was dark, it was foggy, and there was tension all around the place. Guy Montag screaming and yelling to and frow trying to make a decision because the lady just wouldn't come out of her house. It was a point where he had to make his own decisions of whether he was going to set the place on fire or not. You could feel the dark tension between Montag the lady and even the fire. The fire was getting bigger and bigger, hotter and hotter, smokier and smokier. Finally Montag had no choice but to leave her. He saw her burn into flames and even thought it was disturbing image, it was very memorable.
You could feel the passion and how much she believed that literacy was something she really loved and if they were to be taken from her then she would have to go with them. That was just such a beautiful imagine and you could just fall in love with it. It makes you want to have something you really want to believe in too.
A: Some of the disturbing settings of the book was when the old woman would rather burn with her books rather than to just give up.Yet at the same time it was very memorable. The mood was dark, it was foggy, and there was tension all around the place. Guy Montag screaming and yelling to and frow trying to make a decision because the lady just wouldn't come out of her house. It was a point where he had to make his own decisions of whether he was going to set the place on fire or not. You could feel the dark tension between Montag the lady and even the fire. The fire was getting bigger and bigger, hotter and hotter, smokier and smokier. Finally Montag had no choice but to leave her. He saw her burn into flames and even thought it was disturbing image, it was very memorable.
You could feel the passion and how much she believed that literacy was something she really loved and if they were to be taken from her then she would have to go with them. That was just such a beautiful imagine and you could just fall in love with it. It makes you want to have something you really want to believe in too.
Another imagine that really got me to say it wasn't a fairytale ending but had alot of meaning into it was at the end. Guy Montag had gotten what he partially wanted because it was something he was truly fighting for. You could just vaguely imagine the last part of the setting. He had gone to a better place with better people who they too believed in the same things as he did. It was proabably the only time in the book where Montag fought for what he wanted and got what he wanted in the end because the mood wasn't gloomy and sad, it was more of resolution. You could feel all the tensions are loose and everyone was just happy with what they felt was right and all the hard aching pain has passed away because we got what we wanted to ourselves.
This got my attention because when you think of everyone fighting for what the believe in, sometimes you get them and sometimes you don't. Those few who truly fight for what is right and get them seem like heros to me. They would risk theri whole life to say what is right against the government and the whole community. It 's a very brave thing for anyone to do and in the end when the Montag got to know himself and the meaning of his life, it really touched me because i could see the difference of his happiness from the start of the book to the last.
Fahrenheit 451 continued ...
Q.5: What is the Mood of this novel? Do you find this novel saddens you in anyway? Why?
A: The mood I find in this novel is very depressing yet exciting. This is because when you think of fires and firefighters, you usually think down of what is going to happen. Possibly someone dying or the heat just makes the atmosphere of the novel very dark. The mood mixes with the novel in the sadness. This fits right in to where an adventurous plus depressing yet exciting story comes along.
I find this novel saddens me because the thought of a firemen burning books just doesn’t seem right. They’re suppose to be the fire man who stop fires but instead they’re playing with the fire. Also the main character Guy Montag has many escruciating events. His wife Mildred tries to attempt suicide by swallowing a bottle of sleeping pills by overdose. At that point when anything he coulnd't get worse, he gets a call or an alarm that an old woman has a hidden pile of books. He sees an extreme event happening after that. The woman choses to burn with the books rather than saving herself. It just left a huge scar on Guy Montag because he's never experienced that kind of look before. When he thought Clarisse hasn't been talking to him in a long time, he hears that Clarisse has been in a car accident.
The effects of those events really finds Montags' situation having alot of sympathy. When his wife tried to commite suicide, it means that your wife has been so upset with her life that she wanted to attempt suicide rather than talking it out with your own husband that you've made an oath to. Also seeing someone buring alive amungst the books you burn have effectively affected your life in a very harsh and mental way. And the one person that got his mind to think in an innocent, and purely way was the seven-teen-year-old Clarisse. She got in a speeding car accident and has passed away. At that point, I was so glad that i wasn't in the same position he was in right now. Then when he finally choses to kill his Captain Beatty, that really got me thinking how it was very unreal yet it could've happened in real life.
A: The mood I find in this novel is very depressing yet exciting. This is because when you think of fires and firefighters, you usually think down of what is going to happen. Possibly someone dying or the heat just makes the atmosphere of the novel very dark. The mood mixes with the novel in the sadness. This fits right in to where an adventurous plus depressing yet exciting story comes along.
I find this novel saddens me because the thought of a firemen burning books just doesn’t seem right. They’re suppose to be the fire man who stop fires but instead they’re playing with the fire. Also the main character Guy Montag has many escruciating events. His wife Mildred tries to attempt suicide by swallowing a bottle of sleeping pills by overdose. At that point when anything he coulnd't get worse, he gets a call or an alarm that an old woman has a hidden pile of books. He sees an extreme event happening after that. The woman choses to burn with the books rather than saving herself. It just left a huge scar on Guy Montag because he's never experienced that kind of look before. When he thought Clarisse hasn't been talking to him in a long time, he hears that Clarisse has been in a car accident.
The effects of those events really finds Montags' situation having alot of sympathy. When his wife tried to commite suicide, it means that your wife has been so upset with her life that she wanted to attempt suicide rather than talking it out with your own husband that you've made an oath to. Also seeing someone buring alive amungst the books you burn have effectively affected your life in a very harsh and mental way. And the one person that got his mind to think in an innocent, and purely way was the seven-teen-year-old Clarisse. She got in a speeding car accident and has passed away. At that point, I was so glad that i wasn't in the same position he was in right now. Then when he finally choses to kill his Captain Beatty, that really got me thinking how it was very unreal yet it could've happened in real life.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Fahrenheit 451
Q. 6: Entry of your Choice :D
A: Fahrenheit 451 was one of the most unique books I have ever read in my whole entire life. It fascinates me even with the disturbing events and violence that have occurred in the book. It just changes my whole view point of how people would risk their lives to die for what they believe in. Whenever I heard about religious people dying for what they believe in and for their God, I always thought it was a brave thing to do and since I'm still not a real Christian I don't understand why it's so important to fight for what you believe in. But after I read this book i found the value of standing up for what you believe in. In my teenage life, you'd always have to do what everyone else does and think about what everything is criticizing about you. It really breaks a person's identity and their true colors wear off. I didn't think it was that crucial to not stand up for what you believe in because you could get into alot of trouble. It's not just with people, but possibly if you believe in something so strong that fights against the government, you could get arrested or killed.
I strongly admired Guy Montag when he finally stood up for what he believed in was right. It would be much better to follow the law and not get in trouble, but you'll always have that thought of regret. If it's something you truly truly believe it'll follow you for the rest of your life and want to go back to change the past. You shouldn't think about the past or the future, you should always think about the present day and what you're doing to live for the moment. I really got the feeling of doing what you think is right and believing in what you want to believe. I'm glad that I picked this book to read and relieved that there are many situations that can help me fight for what I want to believe in.
A: Fahrenheit 451 was one of the most unique books I have ever read in my whole entire life. It fascinates me even with the disturbing events and violence that have occurred in the book. It just changes my whole view point of how people would risk their lives to die for what they believe in. Whenever I heard about religious people dying for what they believe in and for their God, I always thought it was a brave thing to do and since I'm still not a real Christian I don't understand why it's so important to fight for what you believe in. But after I read this book i found the value of standing up for what you believe in. In my teenage life, you'd always have to do what everyone else does and think about what everything is criticizing about you. It really breaks a person's identity and their true colors wear off. I didn't think it was that crucial to not stand up for what you believe in because you could get into alot of trouble. It's not just with people, but possibly if you believe in something so strong that fights against the government, you could get arrested or killed.
I strongly admired Guy Montag when he finally stood up for what he believed in was right. It would be much better to follow the law and not get in trouble, but you'll always have that thought of regret. If it's something you truly truly believe it'll follow you for the rest of your life and want to go back to change the past. You shouldn't think about the past or the future, you should always think about the present day and what you're doing to live for the moment. I really got the feeling of doing what you think is right and believing in what you want to believe. I'm glad that I picked this book to read and relieved that there are many situations that can help me fight for what I want to believe in.
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