At the beginning, Montag begins to wander to a gas station and cleans up. Through the radio, he hears that the war has officially started. Montag is nearly run over by a speeding car, that he thinks is the police, but ends up just being careless teenagers; the car left tread marks on his middle finger where it skidded over. He wonders if those could have been the same people that killed Clarisse. Montag then walks to the house of one of his co-workers, Mr. Black, and hides the books in her kitchen before going to a phone booth to call an alarm on his house.…
John Andrews had a 10:00 am appointment with Martha Gillespie. John Andrews arrived prompt for his appointment to find that Martha Gillespie was going to be late for the appointment. (Nonverbal Communication) Upon waiting 15 minutes for Martha Gillespie he had asked the secretary as Martha Gillespie’s had arrived yet. John resented this and thought that Martha Gillespie had forgotten about their appointment (Futrell, p. 128, 2013).…
“If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings,” said the Tralfamadorian, “I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by ‘free will.’ I’ve visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will. ”Kurt, ch.4 We find out that Billy creates another world where there is no free will. This shows how much the war affected Billy, and how severe his illness actually is.…
The determination Montag had to make things right slowly left his body as all six men reached the top of the hill. There they were, a huge crowd of firemen and the hound, it were as if they were waiting for them to arrive. They stood as if they didn’t care about the destruction the bomb caused. Men, women, and children lie on the streets, dead. Others just stood and looked not knowing what to do or what to say.…
“His wife [Millie] stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable” (10). Now, it may sound like Millie is dead, but I can assure you that she isn’t. Mildred “Millie” Montag started off in the book as dead, but later on the book showed us how she fit society’s norm. She is obsessed with her seashell radio and loves her “family” on the parlor wall more than she cares about her own husband, Guy. “Now, my ‘family’ is people.…
The squealing sirens continued screaming, a whine that hurt my ears. Inside our bunker people wept, howled and wailed. Some like Papa often did. There was praying and sobbing. Through it all, Mama kept talking to us, "It will be over soon.…
Here we are. The salamander has stopped right here at Montag’s house! I see him right now in such disbelief, still like a stone statue. He really thought all would go well in this world for him. No.…
Chapter 1: I Hope you Live a Long Life! “I ordered you to go, damn it!” This battle was like a prolonged dream. The stupor throughout the fight succeeded in the exhaustion, leading to slash after slash. We disregard the weight of the blade, physically and mentally, unable to pay mind to the toll both would pay.…
The next day, Jesper wakes up with screaming. He feels half-dead as he gets up to see where the noise is coming from. He finds out it's from the room where they stashed the Tutor. Jesper ended up sleeping at the Slat last night, curious to see if the Tutor would end up speaking, but no luck.…
The days had begun to grow shorter and the stifling summer heat began to fade when Mother Doe realized her speckled fawn was no longer speckled. Her baby, was indeed, no longer a baby. It was time for Stag to leave her care and start a life on his own, out in the great wide forest. Just as all mothers do, Mother Doe sat Stag down to prepare him for his departure into the forest. With tears in her eyes, she explained, "Stag, you have been a gift to me, as a mother.…
As the cinders of what I once called my home rose from the ground, forming terrible gaseous smoke and clouds of ashen smog, it hit me: I had caused this. The bodies of my former colleagues lying on the ground were my own doing; the burning house that surrounded me was a consequence of my own actions, and the cries of my wife all those nights ago were because I refused to let go of the book in my hand, refused to let it burn like the many others that came before it. Once a respected fireman and enforcer, burning the laws of society into people’s minds, all I had left was the name they had called me by on the news: The refugee, Guy Montag, a man who had slaughtered his own coworkers in a fit of insanity, a man who had brought an entire library home in an…
As a result of the Cold War, many aspects in the American Culture changed immensely. It was a time in which two superpowers held each other hostage, each afraid that one would have complete control of the entire world. However, it also brought about the increase in technology, more specifically the television, which rapidly intruded people’s daily lives. In the interest of preventing communism from spreading to the west, the United States limited the amount of freedom of speech that was allowed in the country and advanced its technology in an attempt to always be a step ahead of the Soviet Union. Thus McCarthyism – the practice of making accusations of pro-communist activities – was incorporated, and led to the belief that any disagreement…
Censorship: Why education is needed The book Fahrenheit 451 is based on a censorship society which means that the government rules what the community does. The government, in this case, wants to control that nobody owns books or has a great deal of education. They would rather the people have the technology rather than education. It is important that everyone does their best to avoid censorship because the people in the community could have more freedom, more room for education, and they may also be able to change the controllingness of the government.…
People have experienced this in life and these ideas are shown in many stories too. The theme and idea that change is hard to accept is shown throughout the book. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the theme of change is hard to accept shows the struggles that the main characters are going through, and the futuristic society that is struggling with the idea of not being with a tv or entertainment. Near the end of the book Montag is struggling with the idea of finally escaping the punishment of having books and where everybody is anti social, by getting scared of a deer, and still thinking that the mechanical hound is after him even though he just escaped to the river. In Fahrenheit 451, the theme that change is hard to accept is shown.…
It was very cold and when 10:00 came around I wanted to get down because it was so cold and I was so cold too. We got down and went and waited until the night hunt came around.…