DUE WED, 2/7 Descriptive Writing Assignment

Think about scenes in Fahrenheit 451 that characters in the book would have found frightening.

For example, the scene on pages 35-45 where Montag and his crew of firemen go to a lady’s house and burn her books. The woman was frightened in that scene. Another example might be the scene right before Montag burns Beatty or even when Mildred runs away. In the former, Montag was afraid (and later Beatty), and in the latter it seemed as though Mildred was afraid. You can use any example you want, from the ones I listed here or another one. There are lots of them.

ON YOUR BLOG:

1. Find the scene in the book

2. Make a list of the descriptive words in that scene – minimum of 3, but you should be able to find a lot

3. Write a short paragraph of why you think that scene and the words Bradbury used were effective in representing fear. This is like the assignment from last night expect with Bradbury.

4. If there are words you don't know write them down.

Later, I will ask you to write a paragraph from the perspective of one of the characters in the scene that uses descriptive words. This is in preparation for that. The idea here is that you are exposed to your classmates writing and the words they use effectivly, do the same with Bradbury, and then do your own.

Mr. J