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.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
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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