F451 Reading Blog 4: Section 2 Reading 2 by Mathias McMeel https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r Make a connection between the text and another text, the world/human condition, or my personal knowledge/experience. en-us 2018-03-13 18:09:28 UTC 2018-04-06 17:51:08 UTC hello@padlet.com Alejandro Mendez alejandro_mendez20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/241660004 One connection that I can make is from the movie The Hunger Games. I can connect with the book sand the kids that are the test subjects in the movie. On pg 36 when the woman burns herself, "She was only standing, weaving from side to side, her eyes fixed upon a nothingness in the wall, as if they had struck her a terrible blow upon the head."  She burns herself with her books because she doesn't want to be taken away. This reminds me of the part when the kids from the districts were picked in the Hunger Games. And none of them want to be picked because they know that they are going to die. 

]]> 2018-03-13 23:13:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/241660004 Dominic Tanzillo dominic_tanzillo20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/241829015 A text to text connection in Fahrenheit 451 I found is connecting Fahrenheit 451 and The Declaration of Independence. These two writings have a connection to one another. The Declaration talks about happiness and Beatty talks about how the people want happiness on page 97. It is clear that these 2 pieces are connected to each other because they both talk about the same thing. This connection is helpful because it makes Fahrenheit 451 more clear because we know The Declaration of Independence very well. ]]> 2018-03-14 12:34:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/241829015 danielle boyk danielle_boyk20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/241901791 while I never have had my house burn down of a distrustful friend, I have had been betrayed and I know how Montag feels. The original shock factor and disbelief he felt when his wife would not stand by him and turned on him in his time of need when she found out Montag has books(pg 63) was the worst feeling, left feeling hollowness and the thought of if  you can ever trust again. The connection that Montag has between Faber is one grown from a seed of common interest.(pg 77) These are the quickest friendships to develop but also one of the easiest to burn out. For Montag it was a relief to find a friend in all of the darkness, a similar feeling of being that new kid finally finding a friend. 


]]> 2018-03-14 14:30:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/241901791 Alex Tatum alexander_tatum20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/241963227 In Fahrenheit 451, my connection is text to personal knowledge/experience. In the forth reading, Montag is talking to Beatty and they end up going on a new assignment together. We soon find out that that new assignment is Montag’s house: “Why’ said Montag slowly ‘we’ve stopped in front of my house” (Bradbury 106). In this text, it shows that Mildred has went behind his back and snitched on him, that he had books. Although I haven’t had somebody go to that extreme, people have gone behind my back. At this point I feel empathy for Montag, because not only is everything in is house going to get ruined, but now he has to live with the fact that his wife did this to him. I couldn’t imagine what Montag must be feeling at this point. This is not good, because this will have big effects and big problems between Montag and Mildred later in the book. At this point, I think that Montag will turn away from Mildred, and be leaning more on Faber to help him, and use him as somebody that he can trust.]]> 2018-03-14 16:04:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/241963227 Nathan Rosas nathan_rosas020 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242012947 A text to text connection in Fahrenheit 451 I found is from hunger games  both books have a dystopian society. Where everyone is ruled by the cruel government, Katniss is facing the same situation as Montag where she wants to make a difference and change the way she lives in district 12, She starts asking questions on why the hunger games has been placed and why they still do it. Montag though first started by working with the government  but soon realizes that he doesn't know why he does it. They both have similar traits with being brave and optimistic and are trying to change society for the  better. You can see when Montag starts reading on pg.97 "Mrs.Phelps was crying" You can see that books have a way on people and are special to some but people still don't realize it. Katniss and Montag are similar because they are both fighting to save the society.

]]> 2018-03-14 17:29:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242012947 Justin Talic justin_talic20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242013321 My connection in this book is text to text. The book Michael Vey is a dystopian society where laws are unfair and unreasonable just as compared to Fahrenheit 451. In this book the children are unable to live a normal life and are kept in speical cells or used by the government for their special powers. Like in Fahrenheit the citizens are unable to read books and if they are caught with them they are sent to a mental asylum. This connection displays the similarity in the two books themes and style of writing.

]]> 2018-03-14 17:29:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242013321 Jacque Vallier jacque_vallier20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242013410 In Fahrenheit 451 i see a Text-World connections of how we want unnecessary things and believe we cant live without them. In our would cellphones help make our day easier and entertain ourselves. The lady in the first section protected her books with her life and she burned herself with her books because she knew she couldn't have them anymore. Then she spoke "play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God`s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."(37) Which showed how mush she loved and believed in her books.]]> 2018-03-14 17:29:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242013410 Jake Skirpan jake_skirpan20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242013956 In Fahrenheit 451 I made a connection between Montag and his wife when his wife betrayed him and hid the books by having them ¨Stacked behind the refrigerator¨ [Bradbury 98]  and planned to burn them because she didn't want all her stuff that she ¨loved¨ to be burned down. When his wife did this I believe Montag realizes that his wife didn't really love him and only cared about  herself and her tv ¨family. I have never been betrayed before but I have friends that have been and I know that if you are supposedly in love with someone that's not something you do. Another connection I made was between Montag and Faber where Montag claims ¨It seemed that he had known Faber for a lifetime [Bradbury 99]. I think this shows that Montag has grown a new friendship between him and Faber and trusts him compared to his relationship between him and Mildred. I have had a relationship with someone where I´ve felt that I knew them person for a lifetime so I can connect with how montag feels. 

]]> 2018-03-14 17:30:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242013956 Ryen Austin ryen_austin20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242014751 Through this book there are many connections that can be made with the characters and what’s happening to them in the novel. When people are found with books their books are burned right in front of them. This could be a text to world connection because sometimes the books are all people have left that keep them going as we saw with the one lady that killed herself with her books. When people's houses burn down they lose everything they had including a place to live. Most people are devastated by this and find it hard to get restarted again. This is connected to when you are found with books because the books are burned right in front of you and after they burn them you are taken away from society and brought to a mental asylum. Thus they lost their books and they lost their little freedom that they had left by getting taken away from everyone and put somewhere that probably won’t treat you very well. 


]]> 2018-03-14 17:31:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242014751 Peyton Timmons peyton_timmons20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242015881 In my life I have read a lot of dystopian novels. In fact they are my favorite books to read, in a lot of dystopias the average citizens are with held from truths such as the outside world or history. When Beatty states, "We're all sheep who have strayed at times. Truth is truth"(102). The books and imagination is completely gone in this society like many other books such as The Giver. Where emotions are hidden rather than information like in Fahrenheit 451. These two novels are both about one person who goes against the system.]]> 2018-03-14 17:33:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242015881 Nikki Rutkowski nicole_rutkowski20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242021508 A text-to-text connection in this book that I found would be connecting F451 to Divergent. Both books take place in a dystopian society, where the characters abide by rules. In both books we have the people who abide by the rules, for example Millie in F451 and Tris’ friends in Divergent. The two books also have those characters who do not abide by the rules in society, for example Montag and Tris. The part in F451 when Montag was reading the book out loud to Millie and her friends (pages 96-97) reminded me of the part in Divergent when Tris went to go see her brother in a different faction. Both included the main protagonist breaking the rules of society in some way. In both novels, the main character was stopped in some way, for example when Beatty came to Montag’s house after reading the book out loud. ]]> 2018-03-14 17:42:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242021508 Michael Herrmann michael_herrmann20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242025917 The connection that I’m making is about the book is text - to - world. When Montag pulls a book out in front of Mildred she got scared, when he pulls a book out in front of Mildred’s friends, their initial reaction is them being terrified of the books. As we know this is because of the books being illegal and that their house could be burned down to the ground and the book along with it. In the real world almost the same thing happens with guns. People are terrified of guns if it threatens their life. Now if the person were to get called on by the police the first thing someone would most likely try to is hide the gun so they wouldn’t find it. In Fahrenheit 451 when the police showed up at Montag’s house, he buries the book so the Police wouldn’t find them and burn the house down. My main idea here is that books in this dystopian world are almost just as dangerous and life threatening as guns are in the real world.]]> 2018-03-14 17:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242025917 Joey Romito joseph_romito20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242029848  In Fahrenheit 451 the rules made by the government are very unfair to the people in the society my connection is text to text using the Hunger Game books. In the Hunger Games Katniss is faced with the same amount of tyranny that Montag is facing. Right from the start Katniss wants to face the government but Montag actually started as apart of the government and he is starting to inch his way away from them and becoming enemy of the state. They both have a good reason to be fighting Katniss is fighting to protect her sister from entering the hunger games and Montag is ting to show people that books are true masterpieces and should not be banned. They also have similar traits because they are both brave and persistent and are leading their revolutions for a good cause. When Montag starts reading and “Mrs.Phelps was crying”(page 97) it proves the point that books are very special because they can move people to tears. The characters in each book are similar because they are not just fighting for themselves but they are fighting for their societies.]]> 2018-03-14 17:55:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242029848 Kyle Rennhak kyle_rennhak20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242030329 2018-03-14 17:56:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242030329 Paige McKenney paige_mckenney20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242033416 I think a good example that Ray Bradbury did a good job with in the book Fahrenheit 451 is text to world because in the book Mildred is portrayed as someone who just watches TV all day long and that can be connected to teens today because most teens are constantly on their devices or watching TV. And also another text to world would be how in the novel, books get burned, I almost feel like that’s like saying how we are advancing so much with technology that you don’t really see people reading books that much anymore if “they don’t have to”. So in a way I feel as if Bradbury is almost putting into perspective of how much we don’t really read anymore so that's why books are being burned in the novel because “they aren’t needed anymore”, and I feel like a good textual piece for this is, "Montag put the book in it. Without even glancing at the title, Beatty tossed the book in the trash basket and lit a cigarette” (pg. 101). ]]> 2018-03-14 18:01:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242033416 CJ Ulanowski christina_ulanowsk20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242034572 My connection in Fahrenheit 451 is character to character. Ray Bradbury’s character, Montag, is very similar to Alyssa in the Netflix Original Series, The End of the F***ing World in a way that displays how both characters are naive to the truth but once exposed to it, they both begin to dig deeper into the situation until they fully understand it. Montag is a fireman whose main purpose is to burn books that have been outlawed. Alyssa’s main purpose is to runaway and find her father, who left her to live with her mother and pedophilic stepfather as a little girl. As both stories progress, both characters begin to catch sight of reality. Montag begins to believe that books are not as bad as they had once seemed to him. “This afternoon I thought that if it turned out that books were worthwhile, we might get a press and print some extra copies--” (Bradbury, 81). Alyssa begins to find out that her dad isn’t as great as she thought he would be. She finds out that he is a drunk, a drug dealer, and has another daughter that he failed to inform her about. All of these facts bring James, Alyssa’s love interest, to intervene and ask her father, “Why are you such a prick?” After both Montag and Alyssa come to realize their own truths, they decide to go deeper into their situation in ways that break the law and don’t end (thus far for Montag) ideally. 


]]> 2018-03-14 18:02:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242034572 Cameron Ransford cameron_ransford20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242039282 My connection in the book is My personal experience/Knowledge,Knowing what montag knows and how it feels to be betrayed from a friend or family member its very easy to relate and know how that feels and the fact that he trusted her to keep a secret and not to tell anyone about the books,and she throws that trust away so she’s not thrown into a mental hospital,
She throws him under the bus in this act of selfishness and cowardness, montag feels betrayed and in shock that his wife and her friends would rat him out just because they don’t wanna go to a mental hospital.Being betrayed is the worst feeling ever because you’re throwing away that persons trust and they’re ability to ever trust you again,
Montag and faber having similar interests and goals is the first time we’ve seen two people develop a friendship and communication of what you can hear today, its the first time we hear two people not entirely scared of what's gonna happen in this dystopian society where everyone is living at a 100mph and not taking any time to take a break and talk to other people, “We could use their anger,and we could use the honest rage of those historians who haven’t written a line for forty years.” “True.we might form classes and reading.””yes!”     (Page 83)   


]]> 2018-03-14 18:09:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242039282 Shaz Ahmed shaz_ahmed20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242482079 My connection in F451 is my personal connection to this in how mildred won’t standby with montag. After this you wonder if you can even trust anyone anymore or even try to build a relationship because one of my good friends back in the day betrayed me and stopped talking to me one day and ignored me numerous times. This connects with how Montag feels right now about mildred that if he can even trust her anymore (Pg 64). She just left him with no hope and now lost. The only friend he trusts now is faber. Montag now has mixed feelings about everyone now because of mildred not standing by him.

]]> 2018-03-15 16:56:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242482079 Kyle Rennhak kyle_rennhak20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242498949 i have a text to self connection with montag from Fahrenheit 51 because he feels betrayed. in the book outside Montags house, "we've slowly stopped in front of my house." (106) by this time Montag has realized that Mildred has told on him about having the books. i can relate to this because i have had friends that go against me and do something or say something i specifically asked them not to do and that makes me lose trust and be angry and disappointing not only in the person but also myself because i thought i could trust them.]]> 2018-03-15 17:22:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242498949 Julia Martin julia_martin20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242514644 I have never been questioned by the authority(/friend) that I was withholding something against the law like Montag has, but I have been betrayed by my own blood and skin. It may not seem like an awful thing now, but then, when I was 12, it was the worst. My own 6 year old brother ratted me out for eating the leftover ice cream without my mother’s permission. I got in trouble, yes, but not as badly Montag did. “‘Something the matter, Montag?’ ‘Why’, said Montag slowly, ‘we’ve stopped in front of my house”(Bradbury 106). He was constantly questioned by his “friend” when the stolen book was brought up and when things weren’t cleared up, all of them were called out to Montag’s house. To find out if Montag did get rid of the book.

]]> 2018-03-15 17:46:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242514644 Ainsley Drexler ainsley_drexler20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242898037 My connection in Fahrenheit 451 is a text to world connection. The fireman would burn books to keep people from having different views of the world. “Do you know why books such as this are so important? because they have quality. (...) To me this means texture. This book has pores. It has features. (...) the more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of the life of per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more ‘literary’ you are...They show the pores in the face of life” (pg 79). This relates to Nazi Germany because in Germany the Nazi's would burn books representing ideologies opposed to Nazism. These sources tie together because they both give examples of how people are so opinionated to the point that they will literally destroy any remnants of others opinions. In Nazi Germany they would try and destroy any evidence that any other way of life exists, to try and boost their own ways of living. This is the same as the book Fahrenheit 451.]]> 2018-03-16 16:12:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/242898037 Shannon Minogue shannon_minogue20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/245141444 One test to world connection that I can make with the book Fahrenheit 451 is being betrayed by a family member or friend. Its very easy to relate and know the feeling of being shuned in a way, and the fact that Montag trusted her to keep a secret and not to tell anyone about the book, and it just goes in one ear and out the other. She just throws his trust away so she’s not thrown into a mental hospital. With Millie doing this Montag feels betrayed and in shock that his wife and her friends would rat him out just because they don’t wanna go to a mental hospital.Being betrayed is a pretty bad feeling because you’re throwing away that persons trust and they’re ability to ever trust you again. Its a hard thing to look past and hard to trust that person again. When Montag was reading to Millie and her friends they were kinda bashing on him in a way to where he felt betrayed. "Mr. Montag, You're nasty!" said one of the friends. (pg 97) and here was a part when Montag felt betrayed. 

]]> 2018-03-22 17:36:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/245141444 Katie McDaniel katherine_mcdaniel20 https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/247636990 The theme of censorship shown in Fahrenheit 451 is similar to a situation currently in my life. For example, right now in my life my parents will censor what I see on T.V and on the internet. While in Fahrenheit 451 the government censors what people watch on tv and what information people learn. “What was on?” “Programs.” “What programs?” “Some of the best ever.” “Who?” “Oh, you know, the bunch”(Bradbury 46-47). The government is limiting what is on tv so people don’t have different opinions and don’t argue about anything.]]> 2018-04-01 01:37:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmeel1/95itq1fzzm0r/wish/247636990