https://padlet.com/schmilei000/hx6f8cpqjodu Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2018-10-15 15:51:19 UTC 2025-10-08 10:42:18 UTC hello@padlet.com schmilei000 https://padlet.com/schmilei000/hx6f8cpqjodu/wish/295515396  "'We get these cases nine or ten a night. Got so many, starting a few years ago, we had the special machines built. With the optical lens, of course, that was new; the rest is ancient. You don't need an M.D., case like this; all you need is two handymen, clean the problem in half an hour. Look' -he started for the door- 'we gotta go. Just had another call on the old ear-thimble. Ten blocks from here. Someone else just jumped off the cap off a pillbox. Call if you need us again. Keep her quiet. We got a contrasedative in her. She'll wake up hungry. So long.'" 
  This was in the beginning of the book when Mildred overdosed on the sleeping pills. This is the, as we all know, introduction to Mildred. I think this quote is significant because one of the two men is explaining to Montag why no M.D. (which I'm assuming is some type of medical professional) is there to see that Mildred was okay. But, the man seems not to really care and has left everything mostly up to the machine. It shows how much this society relies on technology and how it dictates most of their lives in the novel.
Do you think our society has chances of being as dependent on technology and letting it dictate our lives as much as it has on their society?]]> 2018-10-22 15:32:50 UTC https://padlet.com/schmilei000/hx6f8cpqjodu/wish/295515396 schmilei000 https://padlet.com/schmilei000/hx6f8cpqjodu/wish/295525107 " 'Was it my wife turned in the alarm?' Beatty nodded. ' But her friends turned in an alarm earlier, that I let ride. One way or the other, you'd have got it. It was pretty silly, quoting poetry around free and easy like that. It was the act of a silly damn snob. Give a man  few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of Creation. You think you can walk on water with your books. Well, the world can get by just fine without them. Look where they got you,in slime up to your lip. If I stir the slime with my little finger, you'll drown!'"
   This is later in the novel, some may not have read this part yet. But, it is after the firemen arrive at Montag's house to burn it because of the books found. I found this quote interesting or important because it was very foreshadowed within the book that it might happen, but we didn't think Mildred would actually turn him in. Or at least I didn't she'd do it so soon in the book. 
What were your thoughts on finding out exactly who turned Montag in?]]> 2018-10-22 15:47:06 UTC https://padlet.com/schmilei000/hx6f8cpqjodu/wish/295525107