Fahrenheit 481 pp. 81-91

Monday, January 22, 2007

DUE Wednesday 1/24 Fahrenheit 481 pp. 81-91
Read pp. 81-91
Do the following three things --- this has one more step than last time.
1. Write a question. What are you confused about?
Currently I have nothing I am confused about, I am really starting to enjoy the book and it is giving me new outlooks on different societies.

Faber jokingly proposes a plan of action and then starts to discuss it seriously with Montag. What is the plan of action? More importantly, why does he say it won’t work? Analyze his answer. Why won't it work?

Faber's plan was to plant books in each one of the fireman's houses, so they would get caught with books and have their own houses burned for a change. Faber said that "the fireman's structure itself would have to burn."
One of the reasons Faber says the plan will not work is that it is hard to trust people. He said that other people would be needed to help, but who can he trust? For all he knows, the people that he gets to help may just turn him and Montag into the police, and that would be the end of them."But that will just nibble the edges. The whole cultures shot through. The skeleton needs melting and reshaping." Faber is saying that too much damage has already been done. Lighting the fireman's houses would only do a little, they needed to totally reshape society. He said that "the public it self had stop reading books on its own." To really change things, he had to change the peoples minds. The trouble is that they are having fun with their parlor t.v.'s. What will make them want to give that up for reading something. If the public is content the way they are, why would they want to change.