Fahrenheit Journals 2

Pages 71-79

Quote: “FUTURE INVESTIGATIONS (?) Faber’s name was there. Page 75

I found this quote to be interesting for several reasons. One reason is that I found this quote to be interesting because Montag had kept this kind of file of people that he may investigate. That shows how committed Montag is, or was, to his fireman job. I also found it funny that Montag kept Faber’s name in that category for a whole year! Then when he actually called Faber, he somehow knew that it was Montag on the other line. That is why I found this quote to be of interest because it shows either how committed Montag is to his fireman job, or, that he really isn’t committed because he hasn’t checked “FUTURE INVESTIGATIONS” in such a long time that Faber’s name was in there for an entire year!

Quote: “I’m numb, he thought. When did the numbness really begin in my face? In my body? The night I kicked the pill bottle in the dark….” Page 77

I found this particular quote to be of interest because it is one of realization. After such a long time, Montag finally realizes that something is the matter and that his body was actually numb. He thought at first that it began the night that he went to his home and his wife consumed all of those pills but, I believe that, that really started everything and what I found interesting as well, is that Montag barely realizes that his face and body have been numb so it’s a quote of feeling self conscious after being a person floating above himself after so long of watching himself live as he watched. That is why I found this quote to be of interest.

Pages 80-88

Quote: “Books were only one type of receptacle were we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget.” Page82-83

I found this to be interesting for several reasons. One reason is that because of this quote for a mere second I put myself in the place of the firemen and thought since its only one form of receptacle then the things stored in the books can be stored by other means. Maybe that it was the fireman think, however that still wouldn’t justify what they do in my terms. They are still destroying something that people took so long to make and they put their heart and soul into the making of these books and then the fireman just come and burn it all up.

Quote: “But aren’t you interested? ‘Not if you start talking the sort of talk that might get me burnt for my trouble.’” Page 85

I found this to be of interest because of the contrast between the people of this world and the people of our modern day world. In their world Faber is such a coward that he will not follow his passion if it means him getting into trouble. However, in our world people stand up for what they truly believe even if it means getting into trouble. Sometimes the only way to change things that are wrong and distilled with corruption, we have to try something risky, and here is Faber not going to do anything about the burning of books even though his chance has finally arose and doesn’t even have to fight by himself. That is why I found that to be interesting.

Pages: 89-97

Quote: “It’s always someone else’s husband dies, they say.” Page 94

I found this striking because of the insincerity that these women show. Mrs. Phelps has a husband in the war and instead of feeling some empathy for the other woman she just says that all nonchalantly as if she doesn’t care about other forms of human life besides her own at all. How horrible these people are. She also said that she doesn’t even worry about her husband that much and that she was already married three times. I really don’t understand why these people get married if they don’t even care about one another. Maybe it’s just convenient to live with another person. Well that is why I found this to be interesting.

Quote: “Did you see that Clara Dove five-minute romance last night in your wall? Well it’s about this woman who—“Page 95

This was interesting for me because that’s all these people ever seem to talk about are those stupid programs on that stupid wall. The “parlor” as they say may have been designed by the government to keep the people busy and for the people to learn and see what they want them to see. These people seem to have no lives at all and just watch that giant TV all day. Also it was interesting because Mildred asked one the women this question after talking about such a delicate subject as war. That is why I found this to be interesting.

Pages: 98-106

Quote: “You’ll ruin everything. Shut up, you fool!” page 98

What I found interesting about this is that Montag was indeed going to ruin everything that they have worked up to. He was going to read aloud and the ladies that were in the TV room with Mildred were going to find out that he has books. I also found interesting that Montag didn’t seem to care anymore. For once he was fearless and was actually courageous and defied Faber. Although he was irritated I don’t think that Montag should’ve done that because it will eventually lead to hid demise. That is what I found interesting about this quote.

Quote: “…you were so recently one of them yourself.” Page 103

I found it funny how this was put into words. How Faber told Montag that he was one of them. They are so different in the minds of Faber and the mind of Montag that they aren’t in the same category of human. Maybe Faber and Montag think of themselves better than the fireman and the other people that don’t read books. Maybe they are. But its funny how its said to show they contrast between Montag and his buddies that do the same work for a living. That is why I found this to be of interest.

Pages: 108-116

Quote: “we’ve stopped in front of my house.” Page 110

I found this interesting because it really struck me that they would go to Montag’s house and burn the books. Here I was reading and thinking that although his plan was a little messed up because he read to those ladies and they found out that he had books, I had no idea that he would get caught or that somebody would tell on him. Usually all goes well with the protagonist, but here Montag is in the heat of getting caught red handed. I was so surprised when I read this which is why I found it interesting. I actually stopped reading for a short moment because I was so shocked.

Quote: “Fire was best for everything!” Page 116

I found this very interesting because for a second Montag went back to his original state of thinking that fire was best for everything. Its so funny that Montag is so brainwashed that he truly thinks that fire is best for everything and that it cleanses things. Although it may cleanse things it also leaves a messy destroyed byproduct. I also found it interesting that Montag had to burn his own home and his books that he so much cared about now. I also found interesting that his wife left him because of his newly passion of books, although owning them was illegal. That is what I found interesting about this quote.

Pages: 117-126

Quote: “...he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering manikin, no longer human or known…” Page 119

I found this extremely interesting for several reasons. The first reason I thought that this was interesting is because I really never would’ve thought that Montag would go so far that he would kill his Captain! I was really astounded when he killed him. Especially with fire, how ironic! A fireman that in this world that burns books dies by flame! “The ultimate cleanser” as they say. I also thought that it was interesting that he couldn’t move after killing him. Montag was practically numb even before the dog stabbed him. Montag for once showed some real anger and that is why I found it interesting.

Quote:” Get up!’ he told himself. ‘Dammit get up!’” page 123

I found this quote to be interesting because Montag is having to tell his body what to do because its not responding how it should. Maybe he’s doing this to fill in the void that Faber left when his earpiece was destroyed because Faber was always the one that was telling him what to do and his body would just automatically do it. He wouldn’t have to think about anything because of Faber’s voice his body would just automatically do it so I guess that justifies why he is talking to his body, but that’s still weird.

Fahrenheit questions set number one

1) The fireman burn books for a living.

2) Books are compared to birds because the pages can look like the wings of birds.

3) Montag thinks that his job is a good one and seems to really like it on pages 3-4.

4) Montag meets Clarisse on the way home.

5) Montag could mean that you can never wash off a sin or something of the sort when he says “you never wash it off completely.”

6) I think that Bradbury would introduce Clarisse before Montag’s own wife because Clarisse seems to be a more important character than Montag’s wife and maybe to emphasize how emotionless the world that Montag lives in is.

7) Mildred gets help when Montag gets home because she consumed a whole bottle of sleeping pills.

8) The help that Mildred receives is that two men come in her home and her stomach is pumped out and her blood is renewed.

9) There is something unusual about the way the two men go about helping Mildred because they went in there at night, and were insincere and didn’t really seem to care and they renewed her bodily fluid.

10) Life in Montag’s house is different from that of Clarisse because Montag’s house is dull and boring and in Clarisse’s house people actually have real conversations and act like humans.

11) Mildred reacts very naturally and as if nothing happened after she wakes up from her previous night’s experience, but she is hungryJ.

12) Mildred just listens to her “family” through her ear buds.

13) The setup of Montag’s television room is that there are three walls that are just giant televisions but the forth wall isn’t a television and Mildred complains about that.

14) Clarisse is just standing out in the rain and drinking it on page 21.

15) Clarisse is different from Mildred because Clarisse is young and exciting and Mildred is dull and just listens to her “family” all day.

16) The mechanical hound seems to be for scaring things and for protection but the fireman also use it for entertainment and watch it kill things.

17) The hound’s reaction to Montag is that the hound seems to hate Montag and tried to attack him and Montag believes that it was done by someone programming it to attack him.

18) Society considers Clarisse to be “anti social” because she is different and actually talks which is ironic that people picture her to be anti social.

19) Montag’s steals a book at his next fire.

20) On page 40, Beatty reveals that he has read books before.

21) Mildred uses her earbud or “shell” to go to sleep, and her pills.

22) Mildred’s “family is the people in the parlor.

23) Clarisse was supposed ably killed by a car running her over.

24) What is unusual about the way that Mildred told Montag about Clarisse is that she said it so nonchalantly and really didn’t seem to care a human life was lost.

25) Three things that Beatty talks about that are true about our world is that why learn unnecessary things when you don’t have to, books tend to have less words and more cartoons and you don’t really work out your brain and you become less challenged and you don’t learn much, and we always seem to be going somewhere or doing something and really don’t look at what were going through and just keep the objective in mind and nothing else and life passes us by.

Farenheit Journals set 1b

FAHRENHEIT 451 JOURNALS CONTINUED
JOURNALS SET NUMBER ONE PART B

Pages: 57-68

Quote: “The poor girl’s better off dead.” Page 60

When reading this quote I was interested and struck for several reasons. One reason that I was awed by it is that one of my personal favorite characters is talked about so little and now people are saying that she’s better off dead? I truly feel that nobody is better off dead because how are you better off dead? You can’t change when your dead already but you can change yourself if you’re alive and willing to change. Clarisse is dead and nobody really cares. Sure Montag was kind of bummed out that he didn’t have anybody to talk to on the way to work but that’s it. This world of Bradbury truly is interesting because of the way people respond to certain things that happen. That is why I found this quote to be of interest.

Quote: “I’ll be in later. Maybe.” page 63

I found this quote to be of interest because of a couple of reasons. One reason is because with this single quote, it shows that Montag has finally taken a stand and is ready to fight back and not keep being the way he’s always been. He’s no longer going to take orders to destroy something as beautiful and worthwhile as books and he is finally going to show some emotion and be a little more like Clarisse was and try new things. Try to be happy. With this single quote the wheel has finally been set in motion for new things to arise.

Farenheit Journals set 1a

Luis Acevedo
Per.3
Honors English 9
Mrs. Bosch
Fahrenheit 451 Journals

Date: February 21, 2008

Pages 3-11

Quote: “It was a special pleasure to see things eaten” pg 3


There are several reasons why this particular quote struck me. I found it interesting that the novel started out in this way. It was the first sentence and yet it was so powerful and so catching that one couldn’t help to read more. This is interesting because the main character enjoys destroying things and burning them to the ground. He received a special pleasure by doing something bad that is usually felt when doing something that is good. He enjoyed seeing everything changed and be consumed by the immense flames then turn into nothing but ash. That is why that quote struck me.

Quote: “…a wind had sprung up from nowhere, as if someone had called his name” pg 4

This quote stuck me because it actually made me feel. When I read this I was anxious to read what was going to happen to Montag and why there was a voice. He would always think that something was there and I was curious to learn what or who it was that would always seem to watch him. In the beginning I thought that he was just imagining things because of the guilt of his work that he had to destroy things with immense flames and truly felt guilty deep inside but it turned out that it was actually a real person and I found that to be interesting.


Pages 12-20

Quote:” One of them slid down into your stomach like a black cobra” pg 14

This quote was interesting because after Mildred swallowed a whole bottle of pills and then two men just come in nonchalantly and just throw this machine down her throat and just sucked it all up as if nothing was wrong. The peculiar thing was this machine; it was just used by a normal person who wasn’t even a professional. Did technology advance that much that just about anyone can be considered a doctor? That is what I found interesting about this quote.

Quote:” Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue.” Pg 17

This quote struck me with awe. I had no idea that people meant so little in the eyes of this world portrayed by Bradbury. One individual life is so meaningless that this analogy of people being compared to tissues that can just be renewed if they die or get injured and another can be used just the same, is used. These people are so cruel and seem to have no emotions or care for anyone besides themselves. This world that is portrayed is a cruel and unjust one which made it and interesting quote.

Pages 21-29

Quote: “What do you do, go around trying everything once?” pg 21

This quote was striking to me because Montag asked Clarisse this question very interestingly. He asked her as if she were crazy or just didn’t have something to do. I found it interesting that he asked her this question in that manner because isn’t that what life is supposed to be all about? Trying everything in this world of ours once. The only true way to appreciate something is to go and try and do it and Montag takes that like if she’s the weird one instead of thinking that she is appreciating her life and not wasting it by not trying anything. That is what I found interesting about that quote.



Quote: “The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep.” Pg 24

This quote was interesting because well first of all it introduces another great piece of technology that this time period that Montag lives in happens to have. It’s also interesting because it says that he slept but he really didn’t sleep, and that is interesting because it makes you wonder if it is treated like another piece of technology or more like a pet who gains love and is loyal. Isn’t it just like cloning that this machinery is? Does it have emotions and desires? All questions that passed my mind after reading this quote, which is why it was interesting.

Pages: 30-38

Quote: “They took him screaming off to the asylum. He wasn’t insane.” Pg 33

This is a very interesting quote indeed. What kind of world does one live in that there is such poor judge of character? A man was taken to the asylum like a mad man because he shared a love of books that only few happen to in this world of Montag’s. He stood by for what he thought was the correct thing to do and he was punished so severely for it! He wanted to read and to learn through books and because of his desire, was marked as a mad man. This is why I found this quote to be interesting.


Quote: “Burn everything.”

This is one of Montag’s rules that a “firemen” has to live by. These people go around burning things instead of stopping the fires. There’s irony for you! The firemen are feared because of the chaos they create. While I was reading this I tried to think of the motive one would have for burning things. Sure it could be some sort of cleansing of this world, but books! What good would that bring? To burn something that someone worked so hard to create. That is what I found interesting and striking about this quote.


Page: 39-47

Quote:” The women on the porch reached out with contempt to them all and struck the kitchen match.” Page 40

I found this interesting because the women had such a love for books that she would rather die with her books than live without them. Instead of giving the firemen the satisfaction of them burning her books she decided to lead a more honorable death and die with her books by her lighting the flame to the eternal life beyond. I also found interesting the way the other firemen reacted about this. They weren’t nearly as hurt as Montag was. He felt guilt for once in his time serving as a fireman. Also when Montag told his wife about this she didn’t really seem to have any sympathy for the women. These people dot really seem to care for other, and I found that very interesting.

Quote: “But she’s gone for good. I think she’s dead.” Page 47

Again another quote with an uncaring attitude about another’s death. This never seizes to amaze though how little care is giving to other people. The way Mildred said this was in a nonchalant way without even caring if she’s truly death or not. She’s just saying it like if another’s life was nothing just like everyone else. Everybody really doesn’t seem to care for other and although that irritates me, that is what makes this book interesting and gives it spice.


Pages: 48-56


Quote: “We burnt an old woman with her books.” Page 49

What I found interesting about this quote are a couple of things. One thing that I found interesting is that Montag felt genuinely bad for this woman. Here I was thinking that this world is a heartless place but then Montag sets things in motion and then shows the reader that there truly are emotions in this world depicted by Bradbury. Although not many other characters felt guilt or bad for this woman at least Montag did. I also found interesting how no one else seemed to care that Montag felt bad. When he was sick and threw up, his wife couldn’t care less. That is what I found interesting about this quote.


Quote: “School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped…” pg 55

I found this quote to be very interesting because this quote tells me that the world just stopped caring about everything. Everything seemed to be relaxed and not cared after. Everything seems pointless to them. This is what I always thought the end of the world would truly be like. Just giving up on life, and Bradbury depicted that thought of nothingness and carelessness in this single quote so that is one of the main reasons in which I found this quote to be of interest.