https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se What can you say that would help someone use this classic on an AP Lit exam? Share below, then comment & give feedback to others! en-us 2017-10-30 13:30:32 UTC 2025-09-30 12:07:34 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201744850 I loved the quote by clarisse when she was talking to Montag: "You laugh when I haven't been funny and you answer right off. You never stop to think what I've asked you." I feel like this really relates to our day. People laugh when they are uncomfortable, when they don't know what to say. And we never really think before we talk. It's so easy to just answer people with I don't know, or a quick unthoughtful answer. It's a little bit scary honestly. Society has become apathetic. ]]> 2017-10-30 14:40:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201744850 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201744876 Bradbury expertly uses personification to further the novel's imagery. By adding in lines like "the flapping pigeon-winged books", "[the machine] had an Eye", and "The Mechanical Hound slept", Bradbury adds living characteristics to inanimate objects, making it easier to see them in the reader's mind. ]]> 2017-10-30 14:40:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201744876 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201745029 The author uses a lot imagery to discribe everything like scenes and people as well a ]]> 2017-10-30 14:40:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201745029 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201745167 not around your friends, your family, but when you're truly alone. ]]> 2017-10-30 14:40:38 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201745167 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201745363 I think this novel takes place in the future. Clarisse says "is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?"]]> 2017-10-30 14:40:57 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201745363 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201745635 I really liked the quote by Clarisse on page 23: “No one has time anymore for anyone else.” I think that applies to us today. So many people do things for themselves and ignore the people around them. ]]> 2017-10-30 14:41:28 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201745635 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201745759 I love the way this author writes. The conversations that he has with his wife are always easy to imagine what it actually looks like, with facial expressions and the tone of their voices. Also, I really enjoy the imagery that the author uses to describe the world he lives in and what people look like. It is very cool to see how Montag is transitioning from loving his job and the smell of kerosene to hating it and throwing up when he smells it. ]]> 2017-10-30 14:41:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201745759 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201746279 The audience in such a novel clearly can point to those who enjoy a good read, because it’s obvious we will side with the main characters Clarisse and Montag, since they both in the end will be savers of books, when the world seeks to destroy them.
-Jaden]]> 2017-10-30 14:42:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201746279 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201747146 The amount of imagery in this book os insane and I think it really helps readsrs to be able to picture whats going on and I think that doing that creates a different platform for insights because there are always things that you recognize when you see something that you recognize different when you read or hear it]]> 2017-10-30 14:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201747146 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201747307 How many people did you know who refracted your own light back to you?]]> 2017-10-30 14:44:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201747307 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201747381 The author has a very casual and “flowy” way of writing, which is great for his dialogue and the sequences where he shows time passing]]> 2017-10-30 14:44:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201747381 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201747414 I think there's a real loss of human connection in this book, because people are just going through the motions, doing their jobs without caring about those around them. It's considered odd for Clarisse to stay up late just conversing with her family. I feel like this is something that's happening today. with the popularity of smartphones. People no longer care to talk to anyone else, they would rather be glued to their phone screen than communicate face-to-face with others. ]]> 2017-10-30 14:44:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201747414 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201747629 The imagery in this book plays a huge part in the setting, it's so descriptive and vivid ]]> 2017-10-30 14:45:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201747629 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201748148 The descriptions are so specific it helps the audience understand exactly what he's trying to depict. ]]> 2017-10-30 14:46:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201748148 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201853181 In the first 15 or so pages, Montag meets Clarisse, and she mentions something about liking to look at the moon, and Montag realizes he hasn't looked at the moon for a long time. I think this relates a lot to our culture: hardly anyone is ever outside anymore! At least in my neighborhood. Children have to be bribed to leave their video games SVD play outside for half an hour. We're ignoring the beautiful world around us, and missing the lessons we could learn from nature and other people.]]> 2017-10-30 17:46:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201853181 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201853362 " He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back"pg 12..I like this because sometimes we wear our masks( happiness, good grades, perfect life, popularity) and we wear them too long that they become our face. We need to self-reflect and find our value from just being us, and not be our things or jobs.]]> 2017-10-30 17:46:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201853362 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201853377 In the book i'm noticing that its all about whats next. Montag tries to predict whats going to happen before he turns the corner, he imagines what happens next when he's in his bedroom, and people even get pulled over for going to slow. People are always trying to go to the next thing. ]]> 2017-10-30 17:46:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201853377 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201853412 I bet books would burn if they were 451 degrees (Fahrenheit)]]> 2017-10-30 17:46:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201853412 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201853819 In the book it talks about the mechanical hound, but there is no mention of real live animals in the city just mechanical.]]> 2017-10-30 17:47:21 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201853819 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201853847 Many details about everything. It helps with imagery and understanding the world. Reiterating the term books, and paper, helps readers understand what this book is about. ]]> 2017-10-30 17:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201853847 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201854259 I think the guy is on fire]]> 2017-10-30 17:48:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201854259 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201854423 It's interesting to see how you can see how this is happening in our world currently. How we are all in a rush to be somewhere. Needing 200 feet of advertisement just to get the advertisement. You can see people rushing around all the time not really paying attention to anything that is happening. Is Fahrenheit 451 a possibility for our future if we don't slow down? If we don't start advancing in gaining knowledge and putting down the electronics? ]]> 2017-10-30 17:48:16 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201854423 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201854952 I think the novel won a national book award]]> 2017-10-30 17:49:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201854952 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201855337 Clarisse asks montag many weird questions and jokes about keeping the books and fireman who actually put out fires. She also explains that she thinks montag is weird compared to the others. showing that he thinks differently than most. ]]> 2017-10-30 17:49:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201855337 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201855399 This novel is so applicable in today´s society.  People are losing their ability to interact with one another in favor of modern technology.  
In addition at the end of the section Beatty explains how books were destroyed because different groups were offended by different books. ]]> 2017-10-30 17:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201855399 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201855607 Be careful. Many hints and foreshadowing is shown.]]> 2017-10-30 17:50:25 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201855607 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201856074 2017-10-30 17:51:21 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201856074 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201856978 A bunch of people jump to the easy answer that "technology is bad" and that "people would rather be glued to their phones" just in order to put something here. Technology has been really good for us. In some cases, it can reduce unnecessary human interaction, or it lets us interact with people who aren't physically present with us. It doesn't really take away human connection, and I speak from experience.

]]> 2017-10-30 17:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201856978 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201857322 "it was a pleasure to burn" it is crazy how 
Someone likes to destroy something they know nothing about yet]]> 2017-10-30 17:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201857322 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201857472 Beatty explains that a book is a loaded gun that elevates a person over another. In their society everyone has been made equal. Everyone has the same amount of knowledge.]]> 2017-10-30 17:54:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201857472 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201858271 It is neither good or bad, 
But it is addicting and many are using as
A substitute for social interaction and knowledge.]]> 2017-10-30 17:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201858271 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201893946 So um why are you walking in the streets at night and following a 30 year old man what is wrong with you ]]> 2017-10-30 19:01:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201893946 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201895037 We don't always acknowledge our true emotions until another individual runs off with the mask we hide behind. A lot of the time, we hide for not so genuine reasons, or because we don't know any different. We have been trained to feel a certain way, we don't understand that we are feeling is different until somebody points it out.]]> 2017-10-30 19:03:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201895037 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201895657 2017-10-30 19:04:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/201895657 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/202373369 A quote on page 52 really made me think. It’s when Montag is talking to Mildred about how people put a lot of time into writing books and then he comes around and burns them in “two minutes.” Mildred tells hint to “let her alone,” the. Montag asks her questions that caused me to think. He mentioned that we need to be really bothered once in a while about something important, something real. It made me think about how people don’t ]]> 2017-11-01 03:12:14 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/202373369 https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/203143204 Faber's comment about how the parlors changed Christ into an advertisement reminds me of way back when, when the only people who had access to the bible were priests and monks who changed scripture so that worshipers would do what they wanted them to. You'd think that with progressing technology it would be impossible for people to do that anymore, but there the parlors are doing just that. I think that it just goes to show that passing down knowlege and culture has little to do with means and everything to do with desire. Nobody cared about religion in this book, and now nobody actually knows anything about it.]]> 2017-11-02 23:36:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dpotter8/imldkpgke3se/wish/203143204