The World According To Bensenhaver

The author’s style of writing is straightforward and to the point and the novel is unique because it is written through the different perspectives of the four main characters. The switching of perspectives throughout the book is what made the book so hard to put down. I could see, compare and contrast how the characters themselves feel about the situation. As this goes on, the reader can comprehend the characters’ personalities better and their view on the other characters. If this story was written from just one point of view, one wouldn’t be able to figure out each character’s thoughts and perception of people around them.

In this society, it is important to read a book for own knowledge. However, in novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, people are not allowed to read any book nor have any desires to read. They do not know the importance of the book. However, in this novel, three people influence Montag that human should read books and allows him to realize how important it is to do so.

She liked the idea of the story but the sentence structure and the vocabulary used made it hard for her to follow sometimes. I found myself stopping to explain what was going on or what a word meant often. This made the process of reading the book unpleasant. If I had been reading this book by myself I would have been able to read it in a couple hours tops but with reading it to her the process ended up stretching out over the course of weeks. She lost interest towards the end and didn’t even want to finish it with me. Granted she is a little younger than the recommended age range but with me reading it to her it shouldn’t have been as difficult for her to understand as it was. I worry that students reading this on their own will not be able to comprehend what is happening and wade through the vocabulary. I know that many of the vocabulary words could be skipped and a student could still comprehend the story but many of the vocabulary words that are more advanced are the words that give the story its fullness and richness. Without understanding those words the characters lose a great deal of their quirk and spunk. It is because of these issues that I don’t think I would recommend this book to students very often. Despite the fact it is only 148 pages I worry that it won’t be a good experience for them. I do think that there are times that this book could be good but not for the average

Ray Bradbury’s, Fahrenheit 451, is an alarming science fiction classic novel and a powerful commentary on humankind’s urge to suppress what it doesn’t understand. In this dystopian fictional world books are illegal; they are burned to a crisp when found. Books are very powerful. They come with knowledge, and knowledge can bring fear. Fear many times is something one cannot understand. To understand, one must know why one fears. Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451 realizes this importance of the knowledge in books when he meets a young woman; Clarisse McClellan. Clarisse is an outsider, a very different type of girl. When she meets Montag, Clarisse sparks a change in him. Her curiosity and questioning is so unique that Montag is struck by her. He

For the most part, the novel was very enjoyable. One aspect of it that I loved was that the storyline was extremely intense, which always compelled me to find out what would happen next. For example,

I, personally, loved the author's writing, although I did not really understand why she structured the book like so. With each chapter changing different perspectives and stories, it was kind of hard to remember which chapter went with another considering the chapters where out of order. With each story, I was a little annoyed that they just suddenly ended at the end of the chapter. It made me want to read more and more trying to find the next chapter that went with that person's story. It was also kind of difficult to connect the stories. Other than that, she did a marvelous job grabbing my attention. I loved the analogies that she included in the stories. For example, on page 216- 217, one of the mothers told her daughter about a turtle that eats her tears and then creates birds that laugh

As the overall book, I actually kind of liked it because it was kind of hard to understand because they couldn’t use “I” and I like challenges. They had to use “We” instead of using “I” to explain they self or the story. The book was okay as a whole but still kind of hard to understand I got kind of irritated after a while, while I was reading the book because of the way it was written.

As one progresses in the novel, you will witness the government altering history as we currently know to support their ways when Ray Bradbury states, ¨Established 1790, to burn English-influenced books in the colonies. First fireman: Benjamin Franklin.¨ (38) Over time, society has began to censor actual history to glorify being a fireman. Their ignorance to censorship can be shown when Bradbury writes, ¨There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.¨ (51) Ray Bradbury constructs one of Montag's first revelations and shows how books are censored in society and how he is inquisitive as to why. Collectively, the author has proven to show an aeon made of ignorance being controlled by a mind-altering government, yet as the book continues, their ignorance becomes more

Fahrenheit 451 is an enlightening story featuring a man, Guy Montag, who is struggling with his desire to read in a society where reading is prohibited. While it is plausible that Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 to inform the readers on how damaging it is to disregard books and turn completely to technology, it is much more likely that he wrote this book to show how important thinking on your own, or individual thinking, is. He does this by creating Montag, a dynamic character who experiences a journey from ignorance to enlightenment. His purpose in doing this is to to warn his audience, predominantly teenagers and young adults, of a possible outcome if people don’t start thinking for themselves.

Fahrenheit 451 states, “The woman on the porch reached out with contempt to them all, and struck the kitchen match against the railing” (Bradbury p. 37). The unnamed woman, who undoubtingly set herself and her books on fire, shows that the knowledge within books has great importance. The woman decided to sacrifice her life for books instead of accepting the consequences for owning them because she would rather die than to live in a world where books do not exist. Montag thinks, “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing” (Bradbury p. 48). This quote shows how Montag begins to question the beliefs of the controlling administration. Montag establishes the belief that the woman attempts to make a stand against the banning of books because she believes there would be more to life and self-happiness with books being in society. Montag states in the book, “And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books” (Bradbury p. 49). Guy Montag is also beginning to realize that a common person like himself wrote each piece of literature. The writers of the publications lived through the horrid events and took the time to write about them. The roaming intellects at the end of the novel also took the time to memorize peculiar parts of various books which demonstrates that there is value within

The author did a brilliant job of putting together all the facts of every aspect of what happened but at times I felt bogged down with all the information. Therefore, the prose was not badly written it felt overwritten also containing an overabundance of

Society changed what the people thought, while also lying to them about what the people believed. They fed the people these lies that books were dangerous and that having knowledge would corrupt their minds. The firefighters attacked those who had books and burned their houses down because they thought it was the right thing to do. Society has changed them so much that they do not acknowledge the fact that what they were doing was wrong. The main character, Montag, however realized that burning those houses down was a wrong thing to do. He found out that society has kept them from gaining all this knowledge from books and wanted to change what they have done. However, society does not want to change what they have already built so they will eliminate those who will interfere with the change of society. This shows readers how society has control of their lives. They have control of their minds without them realizing it. They have brainwashed the people into believing what they want to hear rather than what they need to hear. Society distracts the people by using the "family" on the screen. This also brainwashes them into thinking that life within a screen is better than real life. This is how people interact in their society. They talk about what is on the screen rather than talking about what is going on in their life through conversation. Society has taken away the connection between

I really liked the book. It was very enjoyable to read. I would recommend it to my friends, because I think they

The weaknesses of the story are just too long. It was too broad, and it will make you boring on some pages. It makes you upset because there’s a twist and some words that they used is hard to understand. Even though there are weaknesses of the story, it will make you be a critical thinker. For the example, on how’s her parents could be find. It is exciting because your expected will not be the same as you expect at the last part of the story. Although it is a true story, there is a doubt that can possibly form in your mind because for me, some details are not possible. But all in all, it is beautiful to have read.

This novel is very interesting and gets the reader involved. However, it isn't written very well. I think the structure is wrong because Roddy Doyle doesn't write the story in order of events, he writes it in a way that is hard to understand as he jumps from year to year and often decade to