DUE, WEDNESDAY 1/30 Fahrenheit 451 pp. 154-165
Read Fahrenheit 451 pp. 154-165 (finish the book)
Question: What does Granger mean when he says, quoting his grandfather, “Shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass”? Why is this quote important? How does it fit into the novel, what is Bradbury trying to say with this?
Response: What does Granger mean when he says, quoting his grandfather, “Shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass”? Why is this quote important? How does it fit into the novel, what is Bradbury trying to say with this?I think that he means that the city and the majority of the population is the sloth. He thinks that the tree, or the comforts and ignorance of modern life, needs to be shaken out from under the sloth, or the people of the city. In other words, they have to realize that other peoples lives are not as easy as their own. To realize this, their comforts would need to be taken away from them, the city being demolished. Now they need to start over. They have to go without their homes or walls with "the family." They now know how the less fortunate parts of the world feel. The are experiencing it basically for the first time. I think that the author is saying that to know how the poor or the less fortunate feel you actually have to experience their type of pain, you just assume.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007
Fahrenheit 451 pp. 138-154
DUE TUESDAY, 1/29 Fahrenheit 451 pp. 138-154
Read Fahrenheit 451 pp. 138-154
1. Write one or more questions that you have.
No questions.
2. How has Montag changed from the beginning of the novel to this part?
In the beginning of the story, Montag was a complicated man. He didn't enjoy living with his wife, and he always seemed depressed. Life seemed like it was boring to Montag. When he met Clarisse, he started to open up as a person. Throughout the story, he begins to realize that the society he is living in is like a little bubble. When the two ladies come over to his house and talk politics to him, he gets frustrated. One of the ladies state that they hate poetry, and Montag asks, "Have you actually even read poetry?" The women just leave, crying. Even farther in the story, Montag is caught with books. He does many things that he, in the begininning of the book, would never do. For example, he kills the hound (who he was scared of) and Beatty, one of his fellow fire fighters. Montag has faced a change that is like day and night . At the end of the book, he ends with a happy life on the train tracks, and the novel leaves you thinking that know, Monatg can begin a actual society NOT run by the crazy people who ban books, simply because it gives other people ideas.
Read Fahrenheit 451 pp. 138-154
1. Write one or more questions that you have.
No questions.
2. How has Montag changed from the beginning of the novel to this part?
In the beginning of the story, Montag was a complicated man. He didn't enjoy living with his wife, and he always seemed depressed. Life seemed like it was boring to Montag. When he met Clarisse, he started to open up as a person. Throughout the story, he begins to realize that the society he is living in is like a little bubble. When the two ladies come over to his house and talk politics to him, he gets frustrated. One of the ladies state that they hate poetry, and Montag asks, "Have you actually even read poetry?" The women just leave, crying. Even farther in the story, Montag is caught with books. He does many things that he, in the begininning of the book, would never do. For example, he kills the hound (who he was scared of) and Beatty, one of his fellow fire fighters. Montag has faced a change that is like day and night . At the end of the book, he ends with a happy life on the train tracks, and the novel leaves you thinking that know, Monatg can begin a actual society NOT run by the crazy people who ban books, simply because it gives other people ideas.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Fahrenheit 451 pp. 126-137
DUE Monday 1/29 Fahrenheit 451 pp. 126-137
Read pp. 126-137
Find a line from the story or a paragraph that you like and explain why you like it.ORExplain what you find interesting or exciting in this part of the book.
"He could feel the Hound, like autumn, come cold and dry and swift, like a wind that didn't stir grass, that didn't jar windows or disturb leaf shadows on the white sidewalks as it passed."(page 137)
I liked this because the sentence seemed so... beautiful and it deeply discribed how he could feel the hound. I dont know, i just really like it. When i first read the sentence i read it again, because it was so well written. I like how the author described the hound as autumn coming. I personally like this season and so i thought that it was different to describe something terrible by it. Also, this paints a picture in my mind. The language used in this sentence is very powerful and descriptive so it makes it easy to refer the metaphor to the real life action.
Read pp. 126-137
Find a line from the story or a paragraph that you like and explain why you like it.ORExplain what you find interesting or exciting in this part of the book.
"He could feel the Hound, like autumn, come cold and dry and swift, like a wind that didn't stir grass, that didn't jar windows or disturb leaf shadows on the white sidewalks as it passed."(page 137)
I liked this because the sentence seemed so... beautiful and it deeply discribed how he could feel the hound. I dont know, i just really like it. When i first read the sentence i read it again, because it was so well written. I like how the author described the hound as autumn coming. I personally like this season and so i thought that it was different to describe something terrible by it. Also, this paints a picture in my mind. The language used in this sentence is very powerful and descriptive so it makes it easy to refer the metaphor to the real life action.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Fahrenheit 451 pp. 110-125
DUE FRIDAY, 1/26 Fahrenheit 451 pp. 110-125
DUE FRIDAY, 1/26 Fahrenheit 451 pp. 110-125
1. Summarize what happens in one or two sentences.
AND
2. On your blog, copy down one sentence from this reading selection that strikes you as particularly descriptive. Which of the 5 senses does it appeal to? What verbs, adjectives, or figurative language are used and why are they effective in describing a certain action, person, or thing?
This section mainly involved the discovery that Mildred was indeed behind the report on Montag and the burning of his house. During the burning, Montag murders captain Beatty, “kills” the hound and threatens other members of the firehouse. An interesting sentence from this part was the line, “There was a crash like the falling parts of a dream fashioned out of warped glass, mirrors and crystal prisms.” It makes you feel like you can almost hear the tinkling of broken glass hitting the floor. It also creates this image of a broken mirror where everything looks strange, though moments before, it had seemed so familiar, I know you know the feeling. And last, I like it because of the hopelessness that it carries. I can feel the despair as everything that he knew comes crashing down at his feet, I can feel his dreams, because the description is so well done.
DUE FRIDAY, 1/26 Fahrenheit 451 pp. 110-125
1. Summarize what happens in one or two sentences.
AND
2. On your blog, copy down one sentence from this reading selection that strikes you as particularly descriptive. Which of the 5 senses does it appeal to? What verbs, adjectives, or figurative language are used and why are they effective in describing a certain action, person, or thing?
This section mainly involved the discovery that Mildred was indeed behind the report on Montag and the burning of his house. During the burning, Montag murders captain Beatty, “kills” the hound and threatens other members of the firehouse. An interesting sentence from this part was the line, “There was a crash like the falling parts of a dream fashioned out of warped glass, mirrors and crystal prisms.” It makes you feel like you can almost hear the tinkling of broken glass hitting the floor. It also creates this image of a broken mirror where everything looks strange, though moments before, it had seemed so familiar, I know you know the feeling. And last, I like it because of the hopelessness that it carries. I can feel the despair as everything that he knew comes crashing down at his feet, I can feel his dreams, because the description is so well done.
Puffs of Dust
The Twin Towers Attack
Claim:
The author in this chapter proves that the 9/11 attack was a conspiracy by quoting three men. This proves that there were explosive devices hidden inside the buildings. Also, a professor I believe made a hypothesis that there wasn’t enough support in the bottom to keep the building up.
Fact:
The fact in this chapter is that if you watch the video of the plane crashing into the building, the explosions go up wards, making a chain reaction that goes downwards causing the building t collapse. It was also said that there were explosive devices in the bottom of the building as well.
Claim:
The author in this chapter proves that the 9/11 attack was a conspiracy by quoting three men. This proves that there were explosive devices hidden inside the buildings. Also, a professor I believe made a hypothesis that there wasn’t enough support in the bottom to keep the building up.
Fact:
The fact in this chapter is that if you watch the video of the plane crashing into the building, the explosions go up wards, making a chain reaction that goes downwards causing the building t collapse. It was also said that there were explosive devices in the bottom of the building as well.
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.
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.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Fahrenheit 451 pages 91 - 110
DUE THURSDAY 1/25 Fahrenheit 451pp. 91 - 110
Read Fahrenheit 451 pp. 91-110
Everyone needs to:
Give a very short (1-3 sentence) summary of the two main scenes in this section. The first scence was at home in the living room and the second scene was in the fire house with Beatty.
Scene 1:
In the first big scene Montag overhears his wife ,Mildred, and her friends talk about their husbands. More speciafically how thier husbands were fighting in the war, and how they didnt care because they knew they were going to be okay. When Montag hears this he gets very angry and starts to rage. He reads the women a poem, and one of Mildreds friend begins to cry. When Mildred sees the lady's reaction shes says that it was just a joke and that shes throwing a party for Montags 'wild' behavier. Even after saying this the women want to leave. Maybe this was all in Montags plan, because before the women leave, because when they do he yells, "Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out, go home and think of the dozen abortions you’ve had, go home and think of that and your damn Caesarian sections too, and your children who hate your guts! Go home and think how it all happened and what did you ever do to stop it?”
Scene 2:
In the second scene Beatty is telling Montag about a “dream” he had. In the dream Montag and Beatty where arguing, saying quotes from different books. What Beatty was trying to do was confuse Montag, making sure he would be on his side with the rest of the firemen. Luckily Faber was there to guide Montag through it. The alarm bell rang and they all went out to burn a house. They pull up at the house for Montag to only realize it is his house that they are burning.
Read Fahrenheit 451 pp. 91-110
Everyone needs to:
Give a very short (1-3 sentence) summary of the two main scenes in this section. The first scence was at home in the living room and the second scene was in the fire house with Beatty.
Scene 1:
In the first big scene Montag overhears his wife ,Mildred, and her friends talk about their husbands. More speciafically how thier husbands were fighting in the war, and how they didnt care because they knew they were going to be okay. When Montag hears this he gets very angry and starts to rage. He reads the women a poem, and one of Mildreds friend begins to cry. When Mildred sees the lady's reaction shes says that it was just a joke and that shes throwing a party for Montags 'wild' behavier. Even after saying this the women want to leave. Maybe this was all in Montags plan, because before the women leave, because when they do he yells, "Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out, go home and think of the dozen abortions you’ve had, go home and think of that and your damn Caesarian sections too, and your children who hate your guts! Go home and think how it all happened and what did you ever do to stop it?”
Scene 2:
In the second scene Beatty is telling Montag about a “dream” he had. In the dream Montag and Beatty where arguing, saying quotes from different books. What Beatty was trying to do was confuse Montag, making sure he would be on his side with the rest of the firemen. Luckily Faber was there to guide Montag through it. The alarm bell rang and they all went out to burn a house. They pull up at the house for Montag to only realize it is his house that they are burning.
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