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.