Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 is about a government where they censor everything you read. If someone finds out that you own books or you have been hiding them then the Fireman will come and burn all of your books. If you fight them and don't want to give up your books then you may be burned. For example on page 37 it states, "The woman on the porch reached out with contempt to  them all, and struck the kitchen match against the railing." In this case the woman burnt herself the fireman didn't burn her but if anyone didn't want to leave their books then they could be burned or even put in jail. I do have a couple of predictions about events that are going to happen in the book. One prediction is that Clarisse was hit by a car. There was some foreshadowing on page 6 that said, " 'I sometimes think drivers don't know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly,' she said. ' If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! he'd say, that's grass! A pink blur? That's a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows. My uncle drove slowly on a highway once. He drove forty miles an hour and they jailed him for two days. Isn't that funny, and sad, too?' " Then on page 44, Mildred says, " 'No. The same girl. McClellan. McCellan. Run over by a car. Four days ago. I'm not sure. But I think she is dead. The family moved out anyway. I don't know. But I think she's dead.' " Along with those predictions, I do have a few questions. Did she actually get run over by a car or was she taken away because she "knew too much"? Will Montag get caught with all of his books? If so, who will turn him in? What do you all think?

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