Last Thursday we started to read Ray Bradbury's novel, Farenheight 451.
- camera's could be in the vents shows an authoritarian society
- animal metaphors are used throughout such as the snake hose and the pigeon birds
- over population may be an issue
- contradictory tones
- prevalence if suicide shows an unhappy society
- Montag is a conformist and Clarisse knocked him out of his falsely jovial existence
- Montag is an instinctual man bc. he sensed Clarisse and the metal object on the floor.
- set in a falsely utopian society
- Clarisse triggers suspicion in montag
- sleeping pills could be a means of control because everybody needs them to fall asleep
- rain is complete opposite of fire shows change in thought that montag will experience fire to water angry to clam and pure. Will go from being a (bad guy) to a good pure person.
- Clarisse proposes unusal questions and the rest of society is dark and depresed.
20-39
- Snakes are used to describe government shows negative connotation
- machines used to revive so a very advanced society
- hounds are very advanced ai and are compared to the people by showing that they are controlled and they dont want them think for themeselvs
- theme of water shows rebirth when he starts to think and the polar opposite of fire shows change in his thought
- purification of kerosene being washed of the body
- after washed off becomes less bold
- once he thinks about it he leaves the emotionless world shows triggred by c.
- speration between the wife
- starts questioning the hoound and if he should buys stuff
- govenment distrubiting false info to further thier agenda
- could yje book burnig do you thin would work in todays society?
40-59
- all firefighters have the itch
- need to read before thay know its bad worked on Beatty but not Montag
- the young gir is better off dead bc somehow has to do with knowledge
- the people who ask why are said to end up unhappy
- no minorities Giver analogy without differences no creativity or thoughts
- no engineers produced how do they have such an advanced society
- analogous to today's society in that other countries restrict internet access
- use seashells and books to feed false information
- montag is starting to think and start to display charectoritcs of a nonconformist
- Captain Beatty originally looked like a nonconformist when he talked about the quote but after he is revealed to be allowed to read books, and instead of opening his mind he closes it and conform
60-80
- connection between past things Beatty said about itch suggests other questions
- lack of bible/ religion shows lack of emotion because it is such an emotional text
- suggests that in the USA
- mood/ tone first part is introducing of questioning starts getting answers in 2nd section 3rd will be acting on it?
- depressing monochrome setting
- adds are brainwashing resists but what he knows
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