Directions: If you would like to respond to this prompt as one of your blog posts, you need to give a detailed, text-oriented response to at least three of the questions below. Be sure to number them. Remember, you may also respond and build on others’ comments.
- Clarisse describes a past that Montag has never known: one with front porches, gardens, and rocking chairs. What do these items have in common, and how might their removal have encouraged Montag's repressive society?
- How does Montag feel when the bomb drops on his city?
- How are the books being saved? Is this the best method, considering the situation?
- Why doesn’t the government pursue Montag outside of the city?
- What does Montag start to quote from at the end of the novel? Why is that important?
- Does this novel end with hope? Explain.
- Why doesn't Bradbury let Faber survive? Explain.
3. The books are being save because they are being memorized by smart Hobos/Hippies, which can later be passed on by generations to keep the books alive. This is kind of the best method, because the government can interfere much in, but it is risky if they forget.
ReplyDelete4. The goverment doesnt pursue Montag outside the city, because he gets away, And some person is killed and given the identity of Guy Montag.
6. I believe the novel ends with hope, because Montag is alive and there is people remembering books and waiting for the time when they will be brought back up.
Jorge G
5. At the end of the novel, Guy quotes from Revelations 22.2. I had to look this up, since I didn't know where it came from. I also had to look up what the quotation meant exactly. The way most sites said it, the qote is about life and death, and healing.
ReplyDeleteIn the book, right after Guy quotes Revelations 22.2, he says "Thats the one I'll save for noon. When we reach the new city."
It seems like the quote is supposed to represent the new city.
4. Some man is killed, and I guess he is believed to be Guy Montag. The goverment didn't want to chase someone down if they already had a body, the scandal could just die out.
3. The books are being memorized in bits and pieces. Its like each person is a file of a book that needs to be kept.
I'm not sure if thats the BEST way to keep the literature, but its the safest way. Since nobody wants to get caught, it seems like it would be the easiest way to not leave a trail.
^^^^Elizabeth G.
ReplyDelete4. The goverment doesnt pursue Montag outside the city, because he gets away, And some person is killed and given the identity of Guy Montag.
ReplyDelete- Jorge's
I agree with what he said but I would like to add that I think what they did was terrible! Killing an innocent man just to calm the society down. That is pretty darn ridiculous.
- Lei
Jorge, the part where you said "it's kinda risky if they forget" got me thinking. What If they did forget? What would happen? Great way of thinking of the consequences because that's one of the things that make the hippies so important to this story, that so much depends on them.
ReplyDelete~Miguel Sanchez
1. The front porches, gardens, and rocking chairs all are items used to relax and admire the world or the neighborhood in which they live. Their removal might have encouraged Montag's repressive society because they live in a society where everyone just stays inside and watches Tv instead of going out and exploring the world so the removal of these items took their only way of relaxing outside and destroyed it.
ReplyDelete2. When the bomb drops on the city, all Montag can do is think. He starts thinking about Mildred and how their relationship was before everything happened. He also remembers where they met and wonders if he was with her because he oved her or because he felt bad.
3.The books are being saved by the hippies that live on the railroads by having each and one of them memorise a certain book so when the new society starts, they can write down the words and have the books once again. I think this is the best method considering the sitaution because nobody can prove they have books. However it is kind of risky because they can forget the content and the books would be gone forever.
4.The government doesnt pursue Montag outside the city because they lost him and they don't know where he went. Also because they no longer think he is a threat. For all they know he is far away and they are sure he wont ever be coming back again. One last reason is because they killed someone so they could replace his identity and so the people could be happy that their government is doing their job of killing murderers.
6. I think this story does end with hope because literature is saved and the rebirth of a new society is what gives the human race one more chance to become educated and saved from their ignorance.
7. I think that Bradbury doesn't let Faber survive because like Clarisse, he is just a tool in the story that helps the main character Montag realize that books are awesome and that he should do something about it.
~Miguel Sanchez