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I am reading Fahrenheit 451 for my first blogging novel.
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Friday, March 7, 2008
The Setting
To me, both time setting and place setting of the novel is very memorable to me. The time setting is in 21st century, there have been two atomic wars since 1990. Then the place setting is around an unspecified city. It is disturbing in some way but also I like the setting because it is mysterious. However, the disturbing part of the setting is that it does not relate to what I know. You never know because it will be very different between 20th centaury and 21st centaury. So, it is disturbing because I can't picture the setting of the story. Since the time setting and place setting is mysterious, I think it is very interesting for the readers of the novel because we, readers can imagine how it might look like in the future, in other word, setting could be depend on the reader. Because it is unique, different from the other novels, it is very memorable. It is also unique, because, the setting is about having atomic war since 1990. I would never thought of a setting having atomic war among the world. So it is easily come to my mind and stuck in my head. I'm not sure about setting being beautiful because the setting is not meant to be beautiful since the setting is mysterious, I don't think it could be beautiful. In fact, I don't even think the setting could be anything positive such as happy, content or joy. It just doesn't match with this novel. Lastly, I think the author had thought about the setting a lot because it seems the setting is very difficult to think of it. In addition, I think the author is very smart to think of an idea like this. So, I really like the setting of this story because it is in the future and the setting is mysterious.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
The Significant Passage
"Hand it over, Guy," said Beatty with s fixed smile.
And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering manikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him. There was a hiss like a great mouthful of spittle banging a red-hot stove, a bubbling and frothing as if salt had been poured over a monstrous black snail to cause a terrible liquefaction and a boiling over of yellow foam. Montag shut his eyes, shouted shouted, and fought to get his hands at his ears to clamp and to cut away the sound. Beatty flopped over and over and over and at last twisted in on himself like a charred wax doll and lay silent. From page 119.
I think this passage is unique. It is not significant as it should be however, it is the climax of the story and it is important to this book. I think this passage stands out from the other passages because it involves burning, death, and horrified mood. The word choice and description of this passage was very interesting and it is significant to me because first of all, to read this part of the book, I kept reading the book and one of my old friends almost died because he stayed in the burning house. So I could get a good idea of what might have been if my friend was on fire! Also, I could think of situations in Korea that once in 2002 or 2003, Dae Gu subway had been burn and most of the people in there had died because they could not breathe. Another situation is South Gate in Korea burned down. Both of these serious events involved fire, burning and some kind of death to it, I think it made a lot of people sad. So, when I first heard about burning and fire, first thing that came into my mind is death. So, it is significant to not only me, but to all Koreans if you see it in big idea. As I said earlier, I think the world choice of the passage is really good because it says; there was a hiss like a great mouthful of spittle banging a red-hot stove which reveals how painful it will be. I could say that touching red-hot stove is very painful because it is too hot! Then it says a bubbling and frothing as if salt had been poured over a monstrous black snail to cause a terrible liquefaction and a boiling over of yellow foam. Every sentence could be like a metaphor, I could think of some images behind this. Montag shut his eyes, shouted shouted, and fought to get his hands at his ears to clamp and to cut away the sound. Beatty flopped over and over and over and at last twisted in on himself like a charred wax doll and lay silent. So, Beatty had died because he is burned. So, what it makes it more interesting is word choice, by making the passage more in-depth and more realistically, I think the passage is very good and interesting.
And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering manikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him. There was a hiss like a great mouthful of spittle banging a red-hot stove, a bubbling and frothing as if salt had been poured over a monstrous black snail to cause a terrible liquefaction and a boiling over of yellow foam. Montag shut his eyes, shouted shouted, and fought to get his hands at his ears to clamp and to cut away the sound. Beatty flopped over and over and over and at last twisted in on himself like a charred wax doll and lay silent. From page 119.
I think this passage is unique. It is not significant as it should be however, it is the climax of the story and it is important to this book. I think this passage stands out from the other passages because it involves burning, death, and horrified mood. The word choice and description of this passage was very interesting and it is significant to me because first of all, to read this part of the book, I kept reading the book and one of my old friends almost died because he stayed in the burning house. So I could get a good idea of what might have been if my friend was on fire! Also, I could think of situations in Korea that once in 2002 or 2003, Dae Gu subway had been burn and most of the people in there had died because they could not breathe. Another situation is South Gate in Korea burned down. Both of these serious events involved fire, burning and some kind of death to it, I think it made a lot of people sad. So, when I first heard about burning and fire, first thing that came into my mind is death. So, it is significant to not only me, but to all Koreans if you see it in big idea. As I said earlier, I think the world choice of the passage is really good because it says; there was a hiss like a great mouthful of spittle banging a red-hot stove which reveals how painful it will be. I could say that touching red-hot stove is very painful because it is too hot! Then it says a bubbling and frothing as if salt had been poured over a monstrous black snail to cause a terrible liquefaction and a boiling over of yellow foam. Every sentence could be like a metaphor, I could think of some images behind this. Montag shut his eyes, shouted shouted, and fought to get his hands at his ears to clamp and to cut away the sound. Beatty flopped over and over and over and at last twisted in on himself like a charred wax doll and lay silent. So, Beatty had died because he is burned. So, what it makes it more interesting is word choice, by making the passage more in-depth and more realistically, I think the passage is very good and interesting.
The Mood
The mood of this book is useful, dramatic, sad, and lost because, as the story goes along, basically, the book "Fahrenheit 451" is about Guy Montag wanting to save the books which are important to us. Moreover, it is suspenseful because you never know what is going to happen, he might burn it or keep it secretly and save the books. In addition, the mood is dramatic because once Guy Montag was obedient to Beatty however, eventually; Guy Montag ends up killing Beatty which is very dramatic and sudden change I think. The mood of the book is sad because, almost 2 out 4 main character dies. For Beatty, Guy Montag kills, in other word burns him to death and Guy Montag's wife, Mildred Montag attempts suicide and at last, she dies also. Moreover, Professor Faber leaves Guy Montag alone. Therefore, Guy Montag becomes alone and it is sad to lost close people from you. At last, the mood or the tone of the story is lost. Guy Montag is lost here in the book. Guy Montag is not sure about what he is doing until the point where he asks help from the professor Faber. It seems to me that Guy Montag is almost always lost in some point and that lead me to say that the mood or the tone is lost. Another mood that I could say is joy. Because of the fact that Guy Montag is finding or re-knowing the fact that there are good source that he could look up and find stuffs from the book. Moreover, I think it is a great pleasure to discover things like that. Even though throughout the book it involves killing others, I think from time to time, the mood changes to joy. In addition, in the last part of the book, Guy Montag finds a group of people who looks for the books and tries to save the books from burning. So I would say mood could be joy. As I said, this novel saddens me in the point where it tells me that in the future the books are going to be burned, or disappeared from our world and if this is true then I would be very sad because even though I not a reading person, I still want to read from time to time. In addition, as I said, the mood of the story could be sad and that makes me sad because loneliness is not very good. Being alone, could be the worst situation that you could ever experience. So, these things make me sadden.
The Climax
The climax of the book, "Fahrenheit 451," is the part where Guy Montag kills Beatty, the boss of the fire station. This is the climax of the story because, from this point of the book, Guy Montag and Beatty cannot be as same as the old times. In this part, Guy Montag, Mildred Montag and Beatty was all together, however, because of some reason, Mildred Montag rode taxi and left Guy Montag, Beatty and fireman. Beatty makes Guy Montag to burn everything including the house itself. Of course, Guy Montag followed his directions and burns everything. After a hard work of burning everything, Beatty now says that he is going to under arrest Guy Montag because he burned the house. Then the radio went on and Beatty was talking to a guy. Moreover, Guy Montag did not wanted to get arrested so he points the flamethrower at Beatty and shoots at him. Eventually, Beatty was burned until it became crisp. But the other fireman could not do anything to Guy Montag since he was still holding the flamethrower. This is what the climax was told to us by the book. I think it is very exciting and interesting to me. However, it is kind of scary. It makes me exciting and interesting because, it involves killing and burning a person. In addition, having guts to shoot at Beatty and burning the guy, I think most of us can't do it. So, it is very interesting and exciting to me. But in other side, it is kind of scary because a person is burning another guy because Guy Montag doesn't want to get under arrested by Beatty. Moreover, people would do anything to survive and turning a person into crisp could be one of the options. Therefore, it is scary that Guy Montag just did it
Monday, March 3, 2008
The Theme
Through reading the book "Fahrenheit 451,” the major theme of this novel is that due to the fact that people tend to have different activities going on such as watching TV, listen to music and everything got faster and easier that people just go out and be busy. Moreover, because of the fact that everyone is busy and hurried, they have no quite place to read and concentrate on books for days and days. In addition, by the fact that people don't wanting to be worse than people who read more books than us, we tend to hate people who read books a lot. So, because of this reasons, the books will disappear in the future. So even though, these are the factors that might make books disappear from the world, we should keep reading books to get knowledge and to calm ourselves. Therefore, we should think books as valuable source of knowledge.
This Theme is very important to every teenager in nowadays because, teenagers are people who feel like they are ignored and worse than others because others read more books than them and those parents often make teenagers read books. So we think that books are just boring but we are required to read just because our parents are telling us to. In addition, since the technology is developed, teenagers are who adopted these facts very fast. We know how to get information from the internet, how to search, and download things. I think the "quickest" people in the world are teenagers because they always try new things and discover things from the internet. So, due to the fact that teenagers are spending a lot of time using computers, we have no time to read books and get interested in book. In addition, we are competitive on everything and by knowing that people who read more books than us, we tend to hate those people who are smart. Moreover, some of the guys who doesn't like to read books, they just buy the books and not read which is like disappearing. So, teenagers are really related to the theme of the book and it is important for us teenagers to know that reading books are good and being concentrated in one thing is good. We are too close to technology things that we have no time. So, it is important to teenagers.
This Theme is very important to every teenager in nowadays because, teenagers are people who feel like they are ignored and worse than others because others read more books than them and those parents often make teenagers read books. So we think that books are just boring but we are required to read just because our parents are telling us to. In addition, since the technology is developed, teenagers are who adopted these facts very fast. We know how to get information from the internet, how to search, and download things. I think the "quickest" people in the world are teenagers because they always try new things and discover things from the internet. So, due to the fact that teenagers are spending a lot of time using computers, we have no time to read books and get interested in book. In addition, we are competitive on everything and by knowing that people who read more books than us, we tend to hate those people who are smart. Moreover, some of the guys who doesn't like to read books, they just buy the books and not read which is like disappearing. So, teenagers are really related to the theme of the book and it is important for us teenagers to know that reading books are good and being concentrated in one thing is good. We are too close to technology things that we have no time. So, it is important to teenagers.
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