Fahrenheit 451 Week 1 Dialectical Journal

Passage: “Her face was like a snow-covered island apom=n which rain might fall, but it felt no rain…”(11)

“They walked still further and the girl said, ‘Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of starting them?’ ‘No. Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it’” (p. 6) Clarisse asks Guy about past firemen, who put out fires instead of starting it; Guy denies this and insists that house were always fireproof. Seeing that Guy is an adult, but believes houses were always fireproof and firefighters never put out fire, it leads me to think that the story is set in either another universe or far into the future where society has changed a lot because in real-life majority of houses are not fireproof and a firefighter’s duty is to put out fires.

“There must be something in books, something we can imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”(Pg. 51) Main character Guy Montag is a servant to a society that is controlled by censorship and the fear of knowledge; Montag has spent his life burning books, to prevent the spread knowledge. But a series of events cause Montag's mind to change, and result in him breaking free from his society. The internal struggle of dynamic character Guy Montag, as to whether he should go on believing the lies his society has told him, or risk his life for something as simple as words on a page, brings readers into the corrupt society of Fahrenheit 451. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 author Ray

In this world what people often forget about that a human can do is cause mass destruction, things one should remember can be forgotten easily and just as fast as it came it leave, this can be seen in the books around us. Authors share their opinion through the words they write talking about society and how if we keep going the direction we are going we will find ourselves in deep trouble, the messages authors are trying to send can be seen through social commentary, many books have powerful messages behind them; especially in dystopian novels and movies. They show these messages through diction,syntax, imagery, and character development; for examples the books and movies; Fahrenheit 451, Incarceron, Wall-E, and Hunger games. The authors Ray Bradbury, Catherine Fisher, Andrew Stanton, and Suzanne Collins all convey a message through their works through syntax, diction, camera angles, and imagery; emphasizing their warnings of what they fear may happen.

In both Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Vonnegut’s “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”, the authors show major concerns about the future. Bradbury’s major concern is the misuse of technology that leads to the corruption of society while Vonnegut’s major concern is overpopulation and the lack of natural resources for the future. Both authors show concerns that can turn out to be real if people do not do anything about the environment and about technology.

Exposition: The settings of the story is in an unspecified city in the future. The people living in this futuristic society watch TV and listen to the radio and music all day. These people have no knowledge of feelings and do not possess feelings and because they have no feelings of their own they are told that they’re happy and they believe that they are happy just because they’re told that they are. Guy Montag is a fireman who for his job is required to burn books and houses with books in them, and he also the protagonist of the book. Guy Montag is married man who is married to a woman named Mildred. The antagonist of the book and captain of the firehouse that Guy Montag works at is a man named Beatty. The fireman's job is to go around

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The dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 written by author Ray Bradbury in 1953, shows what he speculates the fate of society to be. Fahrenheit 451 takes places in the corrupt United States when people no longer read books and are satisfied only by entertainment. In Fahrenheit 451, the fire has been perceived in many different ways by the main character Guy Montag, once a fireman. Fire in Fahrenheit 451 represents both rebirth and destruction. Mythological creatures, such as the salamander and Phoenix have influenced the change in the perception of fire.

The smell. The adamant stench of the smoke from the many chimneys, it sticks to me and ligers all day. The person who wears me is young and innocent, but his innocence has been perverted by the adulation he has for him. The Führer. But, he’s not the only one who is under his spell though, Adolf ingratiated himself with all of Germany. He forced people to wear a star so that they would stand out, (those people we blame for “all of Germany’s problems”). Did I say “we”? What I meant was they. They killed people because of their belief….

Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, differentiates from the cinematic form of the novel directed by François Truffaut in numerous ways. Bradbury states, “The movie was a mixed blessing. It didn’t follow the novel as completely as it should have. “It’s a good movie: it has a wonderful ending; it has a great score by Bernard Hermann. Oskar Werner is wonderful in the lead. But Truffaut made the mistake of putting Julie Christie in two roles in the same film, which was very confusing, and he eliminated some of the other characters: Clarisse McClellan and Faber the Philosopher and the Mechanical Hound. I mean, you can’t do without those!” Other than the characters in the story, including the score

Tiffany Castano English II Honors 10/27/2014 Part 1 TBQ’s 1. In Fahrenheit 451 the firemen burn books for a living. Clarisse asks Montag if its true firemen used to put out fires and he tells her that's not true, that houses were always fireproof and firemen always burned books. 2.

I picked the top panel on page seven of chapter 12. I picked this panel because of the shape, the iconography, and the closure that is created. This panel is in the shape of a rectangle and makes it seem like this moment is stretched out and paused. It is very still because of all the death that is blocked off by the gutter, but it is still surrounding freezing it into a quiet moment of stillness. It is also a moment-to-moment transition panel, so the sense of time being stretched is further emphasized by this. If you look at Laurie’s distressed face, you will notice that her tear is the shape of the blood splatter on the iconic Watchmen smiley face symbol. With a little closure, it makes it seem as though she is crying tears of blood for all the dead people. Also, Laurie is wearing a choker with a skull icon on it that tactfully emphasizes the destruction of New York.

Lately, I’ve been losing sleep due to being waked up in the middle of the night from the sound of guns. Other soldiers and I have to crouch down in corners and empty our calibres. I have to keep watch for my things because if not they might get stolen. In the evening, the soldiers and I are aware of the the shells tearing down the barrier. When the sun rises some of the recruits are already green and vomiting because they are too inexperienced.

In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, we can see a lot of things wrong with the society, things that most people think could happen to us, but is it really that unrealistic? Ray Bradbury didn't think so when he wrote it because he was writing about his own time period, shortly after WWII, but the themes he wrote about are still present today. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury criticizes illusion of happiness, oppression, and loss of self, not only his fictitious society, but our society in real life, too.

I believe Ward does try to open up the minds of people of all ethnicities. There is always more than one side to every story and as human beings, we don't always see that. She wants us to open up and see the other persons point of view and be able to understand their struggles and all they go through each and everyday. Many people say that there needs to be a change in the world regarding racism. I agree, but we have to be willing to change to see a change.