Fahrenheit 451 pp. 71-80

DUE Tuesday 1/23 - Fahrenheit 451 pp. 71-80 Read Fahrenheit 451 pp. 71-81.

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What are you confused about?
The thing that seems weird to me is that Montag has so many books hidden up in his attic, which apparently Beatty has known about all this time. It's a bit confusing to me that they would even let Montag explore these books... I guess they think that he won't "get" the point of the books even if he tried, but i don't think that the government (or whoever) realizes he is going to a perfessor for help, and I think that he might find out why too much then they intended him to.

Q: What does Montag mean when he says that books "point, one way or another, to Clarisse?"
I think that Montag means that Clarisse is a “rebel” to what society wants her to believe. Now that Clarisse has “vanished” Montag begins to think about why she has been sent away. Why is it such a bad thing to have opinions or to have an imagination and do things everyone else doesn’t? The reason is that the government doesn’t want them to cause “trouble.” This meaning that if there isn’t anything to argue about in the first place, everyone would be oblivious to it and not know how they even feel about it. (that is until someone figures out the truth, but then again the government deals with this, and basically ends whatever this person is. They no longer exist and the general public have learned that death is not that big of a deal and that if someone makes a mistake, the must pay for it. No matter what the consequence.)