8＊Entry of your choice
Why do we live? How can we live without purpose or dream? How can we live without freedom? Why do we develop technologies for better lives, but make it worse? These questions were overwhelming my brain. These questions seem to be very weird, but these are the truth that I saw in the book and the world; even I am living in this situation too, because I just live in the same pattern any way. The book Fahrenheit 451 was very impressive and affective to me. The book contained so many important meanings that I should remember until I die: The fact of our world and our lives under it. Also this book convinced me to read with strong ideas.
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Q 7. Fehrenheit 451
7＊Are there are any current situations in the world that relate to the novel? What are they, and how do they relate? Does the novel shed any light on how current situations could be resolved or "fixed"?
I am definitely hoping that there aren’t any current similar situations in the world, but unfortunately, there are few. In the novel, the government restricts the people from freedom. Also in North Korea, the government is very similar. In fact, it is pretty much the same in my point of view. North Korean government brainwashes the young people that Kim-Jung IL is a great comrade, that they should ever respect them. In the outside world, I guess that just makes us laugh or feel pity for them, because the government is too corrupted by Kim-Jung IL. To solve this problem, it’s the matter of people’s strong will for freedom. The lives under the government and society that oppresses them will be not resolved or fixed unless they TRY it together with courage.
I am definitely hoping that there aren’t any current similar situations in the world, but unfortunately, there are few. In the novel, the government restricts the people from freedom. Also in North Korea, the government is very similar. In fact, it is pretty much the same in my point of view. North Korean government brainwashes the young people that Kim-Jung IL is a great comrade, that they should ever respect them. In the outside world, I guess that just makes us laugh or feel pity for them, because the government is too corrupted by Kim-Jung IL. To solve this problem, it’s the matter of people’s strong will for freedom. The lives under the government and society that oppresses them will be not resolved or fixed unless they TRY it together with courage.
Q 6. Fehrenheit 451
6＊Are there any settings in this novel which you have found to be beautiful? or disturbing? or memorable? Describe these settings and comment on why they were meaningful to you.
I think the whole story was disturbing and dark. From the beginning, it was weird to have people burning books. I was thinking how they would learn from the past to what they have done? Well, I guess the government from Fahrenheit 451 does not care. They destroy every single book, and kill every single person who does not follow the way they want. I have no other opinion but that is just a horrible government that could exist.
Especially the part that Montag had to steal the book to read was very disturbing and made me ashamed of myself. I am also frequently forced to read it, but I never appreciate to read the books by myself to joy. Different from me, in Fahrenheit 451, Montag is willing to read any books. His intension read to book was the matter to live or die against the government; He risks his peace, and even his life.
I think the whole story was disturbing and dark. From the beginning, it was weird to have people burning books. I was thinking how they would learn from the past to what they have done? Well, I guess the government from Fahrenheit 451 does not care. They destroy every single book, and kill every single person who does not follow the way they want. I have no other opinion but that is just a horrible government that could exist.
Especially the part that Montag had to steal the book to read was very disturbing and made me ashamed of myself. I am also frequently forced to read it, but I never appreciate to read the books by myself to joy. Different from me, in Fahrenheit 451, Montag is willing to read any books. His intension read to book was the matter to live or die against the government; He risks his peace, and even his life.
Q 5. Fehrenheit 451
5＊What is the climax of this novel? What happens? How do the events of this novel make you feel?
The climax of the story happens when Guy Montag kills Captin Beaty at his own house. Beaty tells Montag that his wife, Mildren, has set the alarm, and Montag becomes upset. This reversal of the story was shocking to me. I knew that Mildren was less courageous than Montag about the book that he was keeping, but I never knew that Mildren would actually set the alarm up on his husband.
The more interesting fact is that Montag kills Beaty, but that Beaty was willing to die. Beaty tells Montag to go ahead and pull the trigger. Maybe Beaty had enough of the miserable life, burning all those books after all.
I thought it was double shocking point of the novel, because of Mildren, and Beaty. And I wonder if I were in their situation. Would I do like they have done too? I know there are enough details to get to know those characters, but then again, maybe it is hard to predict by the surfaces of the characters, as in my life, I cannot predict people by their surface. Maybe it was shocking because I was predicting Mildren, and Beaty by the surface. Therefore, I should have read the novel carefully, or should have not look at the surfaces of the characters.
The climax of the story happens when Guy Montag kills Captin Beaty at his own house. Beaty tells Montag that his wife, Mildren, has set the alarm, and Montag becomes upset. This reversal of the story was shocking to me. I knew that Mildren was less courageous than Montag about the book that he was keeping, but I never knew that Mildren would actually set the alarm up on his husband.
The more interesting fact is that Montag kills Beaty, but that Beaty was willing to die. Beaty tells Montag to go ahead and pull the trigger. Maybe Beaty had enough of the miserable life, burning all those books after all.
I thought it was double shocking point of the novel, because of Mildren, and Beaty. And I wonder if I were in their situation. Would I do like they have done too? I know there are enough details to get to know those characters, but then again, maybe it is hard to predict by the surfaces of the characters, as in my life, I cannot predict people by their surface. Maybe it was shocking because I was predicting Mildren, and Beaty by the surface. Therefore, I should have read the novel carefully, or should have not look at the surfaces of the characters.
Q 4. Fehrenheit 451
4＊Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.
“Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.” (pg .8)
This passage is really meaningful and important that tells us the mood and settings about the story. Through this passage, we could feel very serious and dark mood with irony that interest us. By this sentence, readers could understand that they are in the future that they understand fireman in opposite ways. Readers could realize many things and get really interested in the story through this passage.
“Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.” (pg .8)
This passage is really meaningful and important that tells us the mood and settings about the story. Through this passage, we could feel very serious and dark mood with irony that interest us. By this sentence, readers could understand that they are in the future that they understand fireman in opposite ways. Readers could realize many things and get really interested in the story through this passage.
Q 3. Fehrenheit 451
3＊What is the major theme of this novel? Why is this theme important to a teenager living in 2007?
The major theme of this story is about freedom and thoughts that are needed in our world. As people keep developing the technology and science, people lose important things they had. People’s most basic, but most important things that they keep in their mind and head such as feelings and thoughts are disappearing slowly; people become a robot without emotions and purposes to live because of the same circulation in the society they are involved in! In these facts that I realized, I decided author’s theme will be don’t lose your own values that you have even though world changes.
I think this theme is really important to teenager living in 2007. In the future, when technology is developed more, we will live in worse society only full of work toward money. I will remember this book, because kindly this book already told me how we are and how we will be in the future. Not only works and money, but also our values in mind should be kept.
The major theme of this story is about freedom and thoughts that are needed in our world. As people keep developing the technology and science, people lose important things they had. People’s most basic, but most important things that they keep in their mind and head such as feelings and thoughts are disappearing slowly; people become a robot without emotions and purposes to live because of the same circulation in the society they are involved in! In these facts that I realized, I decided author’s theme will be don’t lose your own values that you have even though world changes.
I think this theme is really important to teenager living in 2007. In the future, when technology is developed more, we will live in worse society only full of work toward money. I will remember this book, because kindly this book already told me how we are and how we will be in the future. Not only works and money, but also our values in mind should be kept.
Q 2. Fehrenheit 451
2＊What is the mood of this novel? Do you find this novel saddens you in any way? Why?
The mood of this story is very dark and gloomy. Without many conversations, same life with same things makes the mood very dark. Instead of free lives, people just drive very fast, watch television for a whole day, and listen to the radio on “Seashell Radio” sets attached to their ear. This image of people without happy face created mood of seriousness and sadness. The mood in the story is enough depressed to make me sad. As I read the book, I feel like I am not different from those people. I have the same life with same days in pattern, and that life is depressing me without purpose. In addition to this, everyone in the world seems to be living without purpose and happiness like in the setting of the novel. Author wrote a novel in the setting of future, but actually I feel like author just criticized us about our living in this society so I felt really sad and gloomy with mood of the story.
The mood of this story is very dark and gloomy. Without many conversations, same life with same things makes the mood very dark. Instead of free lives, people just drive very fast, watch television for a whole day, and listen to the radio on “Seashell Radio” sets attached to their ear. This image of people without happy face created mood of seriousness and sadness. The mood in the story is enough depressed to make me sad. As I read the book, I feel like I am not different from those people. I have the same life with same days in pattern, and that life is depressing me without purpose. In addition to this, everyone in the world seems to be living without purpose and happiness like in the setting of the novel. Author wrote a novel in the setting of future, but actually I feel like author just criticized us about our living in this society so I felt really sad and gloomy with mood of the story.
Q 1. Fehrenheit 451
1＊Who are the main characters in the novel? Do you like them? Why or why not? What is special about them? What do they reveal about the universal human experience?
The main characters in the novel are Guy Montag, Captain Beatty, and Clarisse McClellan. I really liked Guy Montag who is a fireman who burns books as a job. I could feel I am in similar situation. He reveals important thing about great emptiness inside of human that indicates people need purpose. Another main character Captain Beatty was not my favorite, but he was still interesting person to me. He seems to be very special person as he shows his personality through out his job. His stubbornness shows us people’s concept in the world; Captain Beatty showed us how people adapt and be inured to the world. Also I like Clarisse McClellan. Her personality and actions are totally different from others and she has different thoughts. In the world of prejudice, she makes the difference in other people’s lives and thoughts, and she makes herself special. In common, they are really special in the story, because they are in totally different world but experience the same things we do in reality. They are in the future of fiction, but have commons with readers. How they feel, how they act, and how they talk are similar to us; many of us live without purpose, we just watch TV for a whole day, we do not talk very much, and we live in SAME PATTERN.
The main characters in the novel are Guy Montag, Captain Beatty, and Clarisse McClellan. I really liked Guy Montag who is a fireman who burns books as a job. I could feel I am in similar situation. He reveals important thing about great emptiness inside of human that indicates people need purpose. Another main character Captain Beatty was not my favorite, but he was still interesting person to me. He seems to be very special person as he shows his personality through out his job. His stubbornness shows us people’s concept in the world; Captain Beatty showed us how people adapt and be inured to the world. Also I like Clarisse McClellan. Her personality and actions are totally different from others and she has different thoughts. In the world of prejudice, she makes the difference in other people’s lives and thoughts, and she makes herself special. In common, they are really special in the story, because they are in totally different world but experience the same things we do in reality. They are in the future of fiction, but have commons with readers. How they feel, how they act, and how they talk are similar to us; many of us live without purpose, we just watch TV for a whole day, we do not talk very much, and we live in SAME PATTERN.
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