Montag didn’t really chose the book of Ecclesiastes, because he read this without knowing that he would be the one to remember what he read. The only reason that this is significant is because later on he will basically be rewriting the whole book from memory. He will be helped by Granger to remember from memory the whole book of Ecclesiastes.
One example from my life is how I changed. I made changes in my life for the greater good. I used to sit around at home just watching tv, but now I changed that. I play guitar whenever I have the chance to. That really changed my life. I now have an audition for a scholarship in music at snow college.
Another example from my life is how I helped people with anything basically. I will help a lot of people out in any way I can. The reason for this is because I’m a patient person and very nice. I’m calm and can talk things through. I think that if we all changed and became better than we already are, than the world would be a better place.
Guy Montag changed his ways by telling himself he doesn’t want to burn books anymore. Which I think is good. Montag liked burning books at first but now he doesn’t. if he can change the way he thinks then I’m sure that we all could change also. He turned on his own friend and burnt him and two others inside the burning house. Shows how much change can happen in so little time.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Fahrenheit 451 Final
I think the start of the book has a new meaning when applied to the house burning. I think that it was a pleasure to burn his house so as to get rid of past memories. It was a pleasure to burn captain Beatty who was a danger to the books. And maybe it was a relief to finally get caught. But most and foremost it is a total circle. A pleasure to burn.
Signs that it was a pleasure to burn memories are that he began to burn the bed and parlor walls. What bad memories? Mildred committing suicide, their horrible marriage, and the parlor walls. He also had to be reminded to burn books not just the house. All his bad memories are in that house.
It may have been a pleasure to burn Beatty. He was a danger to the books and Montag had gotten attached to the books. Who knows whether it was a pleasure to burning Beatty? But to the contrary Montag seemed to show remorse. But who will truly be able to say?
It may have been that Montag was relieved to be caught. Think of how stressing it is when you try to keep something secret. Maybe he was just not caring what happens next! Maybe Montag was running on overload in panic. But whatever the reason or excuse it was a pleasure to burn.
From my personal experience it is a pleasure to burn. You get a major adrenaline rush. That should I run or stay feeling? You get captivated and lost in the flames. I can see how Montag saw it as a pleasure to burn. Who wouldn’t?
Signs that it was a pleasure to burn memories are that he began to burn the bed and parlor walls. What bad memories? Mildred committing suicide, their horrible marriage, and the parlor walls. He also had to be reminded to burn books not just the house. All his bad memories are in that house.
It may have been a pleasure to burn Beatty. He was a danger to the books and Montag had gotten attached to the books. Who knows whether it was a pleasure to burning Beatty? But to the contrary Montag seemed to show remorse. But who will truly be able to say?
It may have been that Montag was relieved to be caught. Think of how stressing it is when you try to keep something secret. Maybe he was just not caring what happens next! Maybe Montag was running on overload in panic. But whatever the reason or excuse it was a pleasure to burn.
From my personal experience it is a pleasure to burn. You get a major adrenaline rush. That should I run or stay feeling? You get captivated and lost in the flames. I can see how Montag saw it as a pleasure to burn. Who wouldn’t?
Fahrenheit 451 Final
At first Montag likes to burn things because it makes him happy, like some kind of strange high. Burning is wonderful to him. He is doing what he’s told to do and he believes he is serving his society in which he lives. Life is wonderful or so he thinks. When Montag sets fire to his own house he realizes it’s wrong and that he has lost everything including all of his memories. Montag knows it’s wrong and is just doing what he’s told. At the same time though I think he also realizes he is being set free from Captain Beatty and the power that was over him before.
When Montag first meets Clarisse he notices she is odd. He still believes burning is good. She then starts to make Montag question if he is truly happy and if what he has been taught all his life is the way it is supposed to be. If it is right or not.
Montag then starts to talk more to Captain Beatty. Captain Beatty tells Montag in a very round about way about what happens to those who don’t conform to society. This makes Montag question more if what he is doing is right or not. Montag comes up with what he has been doing is wrong and changes are needed.
Montag’s own wife Mildred even makes him think twice. She has attempted serveral times at taking her own life by over dousing on her prescribed medications. She does nothing but talk to the parlor walls which are TVs the size of a wall or she talks to her friends. He wonders if she even loves him and if electronics is part of what society does to keep people from seeing the wrong in which they are doing. The kids are constantly going though out the day that by night falls they crash.
Montag finally realizes that burning was wrong when he leaves the city I think. He knows he is doing something right when the government doesn’t like it and sends the hound after him. I think he also knows it when his gut is telling him that burning is bad by questioning everything that happens. Montag knows that the society in which he lives is wrong when he if forced to burn a lady and all of her books. I believe that is when he realizes for the second time in a very clear way that things are screwed up. No one should die because of a book. It is not the same as murder so why should people suffer.
When Montag first meets Clarisse he notices she is odd. He still believes burning is good. She then starts to make Montag question if he is truly happy and if what he has been taught all his life is the way it is supposed to be. If it is right or not.
Montag then starts to talk more to Captain Beatty. Captain Beatty tells Montag in a very round about way about what happens to those who don’t conform to society. This makes Montag question more if what he is doing is right or not. Montag comes up with what he has been doing is wrong and changes are needed.
Montag’s own wife Mildred even makes him think twice. She has attempted serveral times at taking her own life by over dousing on her prescribed medications. She does nothing but talk to the parlor walls which are TVs the size of a wall or she talks to her friends. He wonders if she even loves him and if electronics is part of what society does to keep people from seeing the wrong in which they are doing. The kids are constantly going though out the day that by night falls they crash.
Montag finally realizes that burning was wrong when he leaves the city I think. He knows he is doing something right when the government doesn’t like it and sends the hound after him. I think he also knows it when his gut is telling him that burning is bad by questioning everything that happens. Montag knows that the society in which he lives is wrong when he if forced to burn a lady and all of her books. I believe that is when he realizes for the second time in a very clear way that things are screwed up. No one should die because of a book. It is not the same as murder so why should people suffer.
Fahrenheit 451 Final
In the beginning Montag finds pleasure in burning books and burning homes. He loves fire and the beauty that comes with it, but as the story goes on Montag finds more and more reasons to hate the job that he once loved. He finds a reason to risk everything even his own life to protect something he used to burn.
Evidence: Montag meets Clarisse and forms a friendship with her, and starts questioning society and the way they live. He questions it so much that he starts taking books from people. The first sign that shows him that society is wrong is when they burn the woman in her house. That’s when he steals a book because he realizes that she found some thing that she was willing to die for.
Evidence: Are you happy? Clarisse inquires him. Montag realizes that he is unhappy with the way society is. He starts going against the laws he starts questioning the control. The hound, burning books, unhappiness, death, and the electronics. He sees that the government only lets them see what they want the people to see.
Evidence: In the end Montag burns his own home down and loses everything. Until Faber is put in danger then he risks his own life to save him. Rebels against the government by burning Beatty to death, Killing the hound, ruining the televisions, and saving some of the books. Beatty tells him that fire fixes all problems all Montag had to do was take Beatty’s word for it. Montag finds something he’s willing to die for.
Life: Living in Orem for about two months I saw what fire can make you lose. The day before school started my neighbors house caught fire do to a cigarette. The whole house went down in flames, it blew out our windows, and took a family’s home. Imagine losing everything you love, all your belongings, and even you memories. When Beatty tells Montag to burn his home down he’s also telling him to burn his memories.
Life: I wanted to be a fireman, but if the job entitled me to burn books I would find a new job. I absolutely love reading, so I would have spoke up against my government. I wanted to be a firefighter, because I loved the idea, the adrenaline, and I love fire the beauty, and the heat, the shapes, and patterns it can make. It enticed me and gave me a dream. I think it did the same for Montag and that’s why he became a firefighter. He chose to burn books because he loved fire, but in the end he loved books so much that he gave up fire,
And his life for them. What has more control? Books over the people, or government over its people and books?
Evidence: Montag meets Clarisse and forms a friendship with her, and starts questioning society and the way they live. He questions it so much that he starts taking books from people. The first sign that shows him that society is wrong is when they burn the woman in her house. That’s when he steals a book because he realizes that she found some thing that she was willing to die for.
Evidence: Are you happy? Clarisse inquires him. Montag realizes that he is unhappy with the way society is. He starts going against the laws he starts questioning the control. The hound, burning books, unhappiness, death, and the electronics. He sees that the government only lets them see what they want the people to see.
Evidence: In the end Montag burns his own home down and loses everything. Until Faber is put in danger then he risks his own life to save him. Rebels against the government by burning Beatty to death, Killing the hound, ruining the televisions, and saving some of the books. Beatty tells him that fire fixes all problems all Montag had to do was take Beatty’s word for it. Montag finds something he’s willing to die for.
Life: Living in Orem for about two months I saw what fire can make you lose. The day before school started my neighbors house caught fire do to a cigarette. The whole house went down in flames, it blew out our windows, and took a family’s home. Imagine losing everything you love, all your belongings, and even you memories. When Beatty tells Montag to burn his home down he’s also telling him to burn his memories.
Life: I wanted to be a fireman, but if the job entitled me to burn books I would find a new job. I absolutely love reading, so I would have spoke up against my government. I wanted to be a firefighter, because I loved the idea, the adrenaline, and I love fire the beauty, and the heat, the shapes, and patterns it can make. It enticed me and gave me a dream. I think it did the same for Montag and that’s why he became a firefighter. He chose to burn books because he loved fire, but in the end he loved books so much that he gave up fire,
And his life for them. What has more control? Books over the people, or government over its people and books?
Fahrenheit 451 Final
Ray Bradbury gives good examples in the book Fahrenheit 451 of people becoming complacent. For example Mildred, she was what he consider numb, meaning she was there but she wasn’t really there. Mildred would refer to the parlor as her family. All she did was watch TV and never acknowledge her husband Montag when he needed her the most.
Another example is when Montag was on the bus with a book in hands and everyone stared at him with they’re seashell in they’re ears thinking “what the heck is he doing!” they were thinking there was something wrong with Montag when really there was something wrong with them, but they’re so out of it they don’t even notice the changes they are making.
Today we can see things like this happen all the time. I ride the bus every morning to get to school and as I looked around I saw that many kids were lessening to they’re iPods rather than reading a book or finishing homework. That’s when I noticed that things have defiantly changed just like Ray Bradbury had predicted. Everyone owns a TV and almost everyone has a internet access at home and families don’t notice that its tearing them apart. Instead of going on a walk they stay home and watch TV, play video games or play games in the computer. And they stop communicating and doing things together.
All this new technology is not making things easer but making thing a lot more complicated. Society thinks we need all this high tec. when truth is we don’t! Half of the things we don’t need nor use in our daily lives. In my family we only have TVs in the family rooms but not in our rooms because if we were to have them in our rooms all me and my sisters would do is stay in our rooms watching TV. If things are going bad now think how much worst is going to be in the future?
Another example is when Montag was on the bus with a book in hands and everyone stared at him with they’re seashell in they’re ears thinking “what the heck is he doing!” they were thinking there was something wrong with Montag when really there was something wrong with them, but they’re so out of it they don’t even notice the changes they are making.
Today we can see things like this happen all the time. I ride the bus every morning to get to school and as I looked around I saw that many kids were lessening to they’re iPods rather than reading a book or finishing homework. That’s when I noticed that things have defiantly changed just like Ray Bradbury had predicted. Everyone owns a TV and almost everyone has a internet access at home and families don’t notice that its tearing them apart. Instead of going on a walk they stay home and watch TV, play video games or play games in the computer. And they stop communicating and doing things together.
All this new technology is not making things easer but making thing a lot more complicated. Society thinks we need all this high tec. when truth is we don’t! Half of the things we don’t need nor use in our daily lives. In my family we only have TVs in the family rooms but not in our rooms because if we were to have them in our rooms all me and my sisters would do is stay in our rooms watching TV. If things are going bad now think how much worst is going to be in the future?
Fahrenheit 451 Final
I think it’s the people’s fault that they gave up they’re freedom of speech. I believe that people should fight and stand up for they’re freedom of speech. It’s who we are and with out it we’re really nothing. We’ll be like zombies walking just living in a program, living life like we’re told too.
I think that a good example of this would be Clarisse because she’s out there she lives her life how she wants and doesn’t play by the rule like the others do. She realizes that something isn’t right and she starts to see that it’s a system and expresses it to Montag. Montag latter starts to realize that they’re being cut out from information, but nobody tries to be there own person they start to believe in the system and are ok to live life by it in other words they gave up there freedom of speech to speak for them selves.
In my life experience that i'm living threw right now, I'm also living in a program. I'm limited to the things that I can do, the way I can dress, and the things I can say. I feel limited from the information of what’s going on back home. Just like the people in the book there is nothing I can do about it. I gave up my freedom of speech when I broke the law. All I can do is go with it and act like I’m happy.
Another good example of giving up your freedom of speech would be Faber. He was a professor and he basically had it made. He him self gave up everything that made him, him and in the book he admits that he regrets it. He said that he feels like a coward because he should have fought harder. Not only for him but his believes in learning.
In my life I can think of many examples that I could have fought harder for something I loved or really cared for. I feel like a coward myself for just sitting back and letting that happen. If I could go back in time and change the out come of things I honestly would. So I know how Faber feels, I think that he feels like he has nothing else to lose so he’s willing to try to make it right.
In my opinion I think that there is no dictum or censorship because they allowed it to be that way. Now that they’ve let it be that way there’s no going back to how things use to be. People can try to change what’s happening but they’ll probably just end up getting light on fire, so they just go with the system But lets face it don’t we all go threw some type of system.
I think that a good example of this would be Clarisse because she’s out there she lives her life how she wants and doesn’t play by the rule like the others do. She realizes that something isn’t right and she starts to see that it’s a system and expresses it to Montag. Montag latter starts to realize that they’re being cut out from information, but nobody tries to be there own person they start to believe in the system and are ok to live life by it in other words they gave up there freedom of speech to speak for them selves.
In my life experience that i'm living threw right now, I'm also living in a program. I'm limited to the things that I can do, the way I can dress, and the things I can say. I feel limited from the information of what’s going on back home. Just like the people in the book there is nothing I can do about it. I gave up my freedom of speech when I broke the law. All I can do is go with it and act like I’m happy.
Another good example of giving up your freedom of speech would be Faber. He was a professor and he basically had it made. He him self gave up everything that made him, him and in the book he admits that he regrets it. He said that he feels like a coward because he should have fought harder. Not only for him but his believes in learning.
In my life I can think of many examples that I could have fought harder for something I loved or really cared for. I feel like a coward myself for just sitting back and letting that happen. If I could go back in time and change the out come of things I honestly would. So I know how Faber feels, I think that he feels like he has nothing else to lose so he’s willing to try to make it right.
In my opinion I think that there is no dictum or censorship because they allowed it to be that way. Now that they’ve let it be that way there’s no going back to how things use to be. People can try to change what’s happening but they’ll probably just end up getting light on fire, so they just go with the system But lets face it don’t we all go threw some type of system.
Fahrenheit 451 Final
“For every time there is a season.” Having Montag to quote The Book of Ecclesiastes at the end of the book gives the readers a closure of hope. I’m sure you’ve heard that saying that people say, “Things may be bad now, but they can get better.” There is always a lesson behind some of the hard things in life. We learn who to love, who to trust, and who to befriend. “All of life is a journey which paths we take, what we look back on, and what we look forward to is up to us. We determine our destination, what kind of road we will take to get there, and how happy we are when we get there.” –Unknown.
When there was no way of changing his mind on house life was, a crazy 17 year old girl got his mind flowing. He never question what was going right or bad in his mind. He realized he wasn’t truly happy. The kerosene numbed him from emotion and filled the emptiness with false emotion. He finally had his own mind back, he was finally thinking for himself.
Montag questioned his happiness. He tried to find ways to show he was. Then he broke he figured that what he was doing wasn’t something to be happy over. His wife loved her “family” more than she would ever realize he loved her. By the end of the book he can smile knowing what he has now is real and true. He has what he needs. He has the smile that warms him more than the numbness of burning books ever did.
Faber finally found a friend that he could trust within. He sat in his house for over 40 years hiding. When Montag came along and gave him hope he decided he was not going to sit around any longer. He wanted to make a change too. He helped Montag. He befriended an enemy and was able to come over the fear of trusting others.
For me when I was in Detention almost over a year ago, I thought I wasn’t going to make it. Coming off of heroine and cocaine was being drag out of hell. Yes, it was horrible then, but now when people look at me they would have never guessed that I went through that. I have been clean from it for 10 months. I’m in school, doing amazing. I’m finally happy and don’t have a fake substance smile on anymore.
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Through out my treatment I’ve met some obstacles, as well as Montag did. I don’t have my family; I was numb for so long with my drugs; and don’t know what to do. Thinking about things like this helped me realize how lucky I am to be where I am. I may not live with my family at the moment, but I am getting better, and getting help. I don’t see any of my old friends, but I’ve made new sober friends. I may be sad at times, but when I’m happy I know why I’m smiling is because what I did. I have feeling to what life is about. I always remember that I do have a voice, and I can say no.
When there was no way of changing his mind on house life was, a crazy 17 year old girl got his mind flowing. He never question what was going right or bad in his mind. He realized he wasn’t truly happy. The kerosene numbed him from emotion and filled the emptiness with false emotion. He finally had his own mind back, he was finally thinking for himself.
Montag questioned his happiness. He tried to find ways to show he was. Then he broke he figured that what he was doing wasn’t something to be happy over. His wife loved her “family” more than she would ever realize he loved her. By the end of the book he can smile knowing what he has now is real and true. He has what he needs. He has the smile that warms him more than the numbness of burning books ever did.
Faber finally found a friend that he could trust within. He sat in his house for over 40 years hiding. When Montag came along and gave him hope he decided he was not going to sit around any longer. He wanted to make a change too. He helped Montag. He befriended an enemy and was able to come over the fear of trusting others.
For me when I was in Detention almost over a year ago, I thought I wasn’t going to make it. Coming off of heroine and cocaine was being drag out of hell. Yes, it was horrible then, but now when people look at me they would have never guessed that I went through that. I have been clean from it for 10 months. I’m in school, doing amazing. I’m finally happy and don’t have a fake substance smile on anymore.
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Through out my treatment I’ve met some obstacles, as well as Montag did. I don’t have my family; I was numb for so long with my drugs; and don’t know what to do. Thinking about things like this helped me realize how lucky I am to be where I am. I may not live with my family at the moment, but I am getting better, and getting help. I don’t see any of my old friends, but I’ve made new sober friends. I may be sad at times, but when I’m happy I know why I’m smiling is because what I did. I have feeling to what life is about. I always remember that I do have a voice, and I can say no.
Fahrenheit 451 Final
Montag chooses to quote the book of Ecclesiastes when he reaches the city. Why is this significant? What is the tone at the end of Fahrenheit 451?
My opinion of this is that he may think that things are always going bad but there are good things happening to. There are good and there are bad to every thing that happens. I feel that every thing happens for a reason and that some times we can not help what happens to others in there life and we can not help what happens to our selves in our own life. “For every time there is a season” I feel that this quote means that when they want something they do not realize they already have things that they do not need.
I feel that in this book a good example of that is at the beginning Mildred is talking about a wall television. My thoughts on that is they already have 3 wall televisions why do they need 4 they do not even watch television a lot any ways. Through out the book they never even watch television.
My opinion of this is that he may think that things are always going bad but there are good things happening to. There are good and there are bad to every thing that happens. I feel that every thing happens for a reason and that some times we can not help what happens to others in there life and we can not help what happens to our selves in our own life. “For every time there is a season” I feel that this quote means that when they want something they do not realize they already have things that they do not need.
I feel that in this book a good example of that is at the beginning Mildred is talking about a wall television. My thoughts on that is they already have 3 wall televisions why do they need 4 they do not even watch television a lot any ways. Through out the book they never even watch television.
Fahrenheit 451 Final
I think that people become complacent because they feel that they can not help change anything or feel like they can’t do anything about it. Montag criticizes people who become complacent because I think he knows that something should be done and he thinks that the people who are complacent are cowards and don’t want to help make things better.
One person who was not complacent was the girl who died because she had books and they were going to burn them and she lit herself on fire. I think that woman should not be criticized because she was trying to prove a point.
Faber, who was Montag’s accomplice, was also not complacent because they were trying to bring down the firemen because they knew that what the firemen do is wrong. Montag was complacent in the beginning of the book because he didn’t know at that point that books were completely harmless. He realized that and criticized the complacent people because they need to stand up for what is right and Montag realizes this.
What if people were more complacent? What would be of the world now if the people back in the old days were complacent? I think that you should not be complacent because you can help change bad things and make it better. Martin Luther King is a very good example for non complacency because he had such a big impact on everyone and he changed a lot of things for the better of the world.
Another good life example for complacency is the beatles. They stood up for what was right and was not going to let the evil people think for them and tell them how to live their lives. I think that the beatles made a big change in the world. They helped people recognize that you don’t have to be complacent and have other people live your life.
One person who was not complacent was the girl who died because she had books and they were going to burn them and she lit herself on fire. I think that woman should not be criticized because she was trying to prove a point.
Faber, who was Montag’s accomplice, was also not complacent because they were trying to bring down the firemen because they knew that what the firemen do is wrong. Montag was complacent in the beginning of the book because he didn’t know at that point that books were completely harmless. He realized that and criticized the complacent people because they need to stand up for what is right and Montag realizes this.
What if people were more complacent? What would be of the world now if the people back in the old days were complacent? I think that you should not be complacent because you can help change bad things and make it better. Martin Luther King is a very good example for non complacency because he had such a big impact on everyone and he changed a lot of things for the better of the world.
Another good life example for complacency is the beatles. They stood up for what was right and was not going to let the evil people think for them and tell them how to live their lives. I think that the beatles made a big change in the world. They helped people recognize that you don’t have to be complacent and have other people live your life.
Fahrenheit 451 Final
Answer/Opinion: I feel that the people that are to blame for the loss of freedom of speech are the people themselves, here let me elaborate on the subject. The people caused this because government passed the law of no freedom of speech, thus the people caused it because they chose the people assigned to control our rights by voting for the elected officials in the government. This shows that the responsibility of freedom of speech is in our hands because we always have a choice.
Evidence 1: An example of this is when Montag and so many others chose to hide books and their consequence was to have there house burned down by the firemen. For Montag it was himself that had to burn his house down.
Life example 1: I feel that I’ve made choices in my life that caused me a loss of my rights such as when I had a choice on weather to break the law or not and I chose to break the law. This lost me my rights because I then ended up in DT and from there into a program thus loosing my freedom to be in the community.
Life example 2: Another experience I had was when my mom decided to take a pain pill that made her sleepy and drive and thus lost her right to drive.
Evidence 1: An example of this is when Montag and so many others chose to hide books and their consequence was to have there house burned down by the firemen. For Montag it was himself that had to burn his house down.
Life example 1: I feel that I’ve made choices in my life that caused me a loss of my rights such as when I had a choice on weather to break the law or not and I chose to break the law. This lost me my rights because I then ended up in DT and from there into a program thus loosing my freedom to be in the community.
Life example 2: Another experience I had was when my mom decided to take a pain pill that made her sleepy and drive and thus lost her right to drive.
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