Blog Post for April 23

So, this week in class there were numerous events that we did. One thing was actually finishing our book, Farenheit 451, and then we watched a video on Brave New World. So to our book. F451 ended the exact opposite of how I thought it would. I figured that sooner or later Montag would get caught, but I didn't even think that he woul dhave to burn his own house, along with the books. Then Montag ends up killing/burning Beatty and then being on the run. He runs to Faber's house and Faber passes along some useful information that Montag needs to get to the river to be safe and join the other "readers". He does finally catch up with the other readers at the river and as that happens the city goes down (bombed). The head of the little group started talking to Montag about how to actually remember what happened in the past. Montag then starts to remember where Mildred and he met, which was one of the first things that led Montag to being "unhappy". As I pointed out in my previous post from last week, Montag again is running, just like the sieve and the sand. The faster he runs, the more trouble he gets in, but this time he actually got away with what he did just in time. I really liked F451 and this book made me realize how important literature is to us. We don't really realize we need something until it's gone, and in today's world we are not quite where Montag was, but we need to get a handle on what's going on before we end up like thier society.

The video we watched in class scared the crap out of me! I never would have imagined that people are already putting micro chips in themselves to show who they really are. What ever happened to the old fashioned way of telling people who you are? I understand that there is a lot more indentity theft and thats the main reason of this chip invention, but it's totally bizzare! So, from what it looks like, Feeds society will be here before you know it, and we'll be the one's in the with the chips in our heads!

Blog Post for April 16

Fahrenheit 451 is defintiley getting interesting. During my groups discussion, we talked about numerous topics with the book. We brought up Clarisse is very similar to Violet. They both seem to be the rebels or outlaws of society and ironically enough end up dying, or getting killed. While reading the Sieve and the Sand part of the book, Montag has a flashback while in the subway. He say's, "Once as a child he had sat upon a yellow dune by the sea in the middle of the blue and hot summer day, trying to fill a sieve with sand, because somw creul cousin had said, 'Fill this sieve and you'll get a dime!' And the faster he poured, the faster it shifted through with a hot whispering. His hands were tired, the sand was boiling, the sieve was empty. Seated there in the midst of July, without a sound, he felt the tears move down his cheeks" (Page 84).

After reading that quote and then throughout that part of the story, I can make the interpretation that Montag is just going to keep on doing this. In the quote, he mentions that the fatser he put the sand in the faster it came out, and I havd the feeling that the quicker he tried to convince people that the world was wrong, would only cuase more harm then any good. In my opinion, I have the feeling that Montag is going to be running from now on! But with Faber in his ear, one would think that he would slow down and take Faber's advice, but Montag kept going faster! When he read the poem to the friends at his house, he had Faber in his ear telling him to stop and be quiet, but once agin Montag didnt and kept right on going. Montag needs to take his time and do this the right way to make it succeed, but from the way part two ended, it might already be too late!

Blog Post for April 9

Fahrenheit 451 is a little different, but it continues to grow on me as I keep reading. A topic that really struck me was whenever Clarisse and Montag first meet. She asks Montag all these questions like, "Have you ever watched the jet cars racing on the boulevards down that way?...I sometimes think drivers don't know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...". For some reason this quote sticks in my head, and the more and more I think about it, it relates to us all in our society! How many times have we been out driving on the same road to go to work or school, and we just drive from point A to point B, and never notice anything. But when we have someone along with us, they say, "look at how nice that old barn is now since they repainted it." So we glance over and see the barn and we normally say something like how long has it been since it was freshly painted? And the person tells us it's been like for a month or two, but we didn't realize it! This is exactly what Clarisse is talking about. In today's world, we never take time to smell the roses! We are too busy to do that, we have so many places to be, I know I'm one of those people. It's just ironic that this is almost how we are in today's world. That just caught me eye for some reason.

But overall, the very first couple pages of the book were rather dry, and felt like it was just dragging on and on, but then as we started to get to understand what Montag actually does, it added a lot more interest in it, and I can only imagine that Montag is going to end up being a victim of having books. He's already taken a couple, and I'm waiting for him to have thousands stored up in his attic too!!