Read Fahrenheit 451 pp. 71-80
1. Write a question about the reading. What are you confused about? If you don't get an answer on your blog, be sure to raise the question in class. Even if you do get an answer, and you think it's a good question with a good answer, bring it up in discussion.
2. Answer at least one of the following questions:
A. What does Montag mean when he says that books "point, one way or another, to Clarisse?"
B. How will books get us out of "the cave?" What is the cave and how will books get us out of it?
C. What is the signfificance of the story about the sieve and the sand? There is a reference to it shortly after the story is told. Why? What's going on here.
If you don't know what a sieve is you can look it up. Anyone care to do that and post the definition?
This is not an assignment, but I thought I would share my favorite quote from this section, and one of my favorite quotes of the book. It's on p. 73, "We've started and won two atomic wars since 1990! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotton the world?" Feel free to share your favorite quotes here or on your blogs.
Mr. J
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sieve:
some sort of container or tray with a mesh bottom to let small items such as sand or water through. however bigger items like rocks stay on top of the tray.
I think that my favorite quote is on page 59 when Captain Beatty says: "You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can't have our minorities upset and stirred. Ask yourself, What do we want in this country, above all? People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these."
Do you mean pages 68-80? That was the reading assignment for tonight, I think. No one has gotten that far yet and all of the questions you ask are from before 80. I think (and hope) this is what you mean.
Kit
The best quote, by far, is on page 75: "I don't talk things, sir, I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I'm alive"
I just thought it was quite cool. Not often can you combine an insult and philosophy into one thing ;)
Thanks Micahel, I appreciate it and I'm sure others do as well.
Mr. J
Olivia,
That is a great quote. It gets to the heart of why books in this society are banned.
I think it also raises some other issues, such as the difference between true "happiness" and "fun". Are they the same? What makes them different? If someone wants to answer this in lieu of a regular Fahrenheit prompt you can, just let me know so you can get credit for it.
Kit, I think you are refering to the fact that Part I ends on page 68 and Part II starts on page 71. On this post I said start on page 71 and in class I might have said start on page 68, but since there are blank pages in between it's the same amount of reading. You will see what I'm talking about with the book in front of you, but maybe I don't understand your question.
The questions are not from the previous section per se, but those sections will probably be useful in answering them.
With the questions I try to stick to key themes like technology and censorship so some of them might sound similiar, but the point is to see how different parts of the book approach or develop those themes.
Mr. J
Justin,
Yes, I love it ! The "parlor games" talk things, but the learned old men talk "the meaning of things." I wonder what that exactly means ...
Mr. J
My favorite comment by far would have to be on page 63. “Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘fact’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information.Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change."
This was a whole section on page 63, as you can tell it is very long, but very powerful in a way. I really like it because, Captain Beatty is treating people like dogs. You teach a dog a new trick you award them, same for the people. But this sums up the people in this book. Nobody really knows anything. I just really like this quote, my reasons may not make sense, but i really like this quote.
Austin,
Your post is insightful and related to the journal (blog) prompt for tomorrow. I don't think you will have any problems with it.
Mr. J
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