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!