F451: Write your full name and then paste your paragraph here. by Kathleen Shenefield https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg Made with ♥ en-us 2018-05-15 14:15:46 UTC 2018-05-21 17:25:01 UTC hello@padlet.com Alexa Hernandez https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260865681 A: In part 1 of the novel, Clarisse makes a statement to Guy Montag about society when they are walking around one evening. She explains, “People don’t talk about anything… They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming pools mostly and say how swell! But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else”(28). Clarisse is trying to say that the people in their society are all like carbon copies of one another. They are depleted of all emotional depth and individuality. What Clarisse says about their society directly correlates to the theme of the novel. The theme of conformity vs individuality, and that when people conform they become almost like shells of human beings. Conformity clearly affects civilization negatively as shown by most human beings in this dystopian society where every person is the same. These people have not only chosen to conform, but they have been given no choice but to do so. 

 

]]> 2018-05-15 14:19:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260865681 Vanessa Theriault https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260865684 “‘I’ve tried to imagine,’ said Montag, ‘just how it would feel. I mean, to have firemen burn our houses and our books’” (31).  Montag is speaking to his boss, Chief Beatty about how the fireman system is flawed. The significance of the quote is that Montag is questioning society. After spending a few days with his neighbor, Clarisse McClellan she gets in his head and makes him see the world could be a better place. He often times finds himself lacking intelligent conversation and believes the world is cruel and controlling. He does the forbidden, thinks. The quote affects his marriage because it shows he wants something more from his wife. Montag wants to be able to hold a conversation about something other than the uncle in the parlor tv. He realized that his wife is a different person than he married and that she is incredibly shallow. He notices that her life revolves around what programs are being shown. This happens because he does not trust the system and asks himself and others questions and reflects on possible answers.  Montag also changes his view on his job, in the beginning of this novel he starts by saying he loves his job and books are a pleasure to burn. As the Novel continues he says his job makes him physically sick. You can tell by the quote that he also feels guilty for the violent work he does. His personal philosophy is altered because he is now aware that what he is doing is not right and does not benefit society, in fact it ruins innocent people’s lives. 

]]> 2018-05-15 14:19:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260865684 Sal Paparella https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260865748 “Wasn’t there an old joke about the wife who talked so much on the telephone that her desperate husband ran out to the nearest store and telephoned her to ask what was for dinner? Well the, why didn’t he buy himself an audio-Seashell broadcasting station and talk to his wife late at night, mummer, whisper, shout, scream, yell. But what would he whisper, what would he yell? What could he say?”

The narrator is speaking. The setting is Montag’s bedroom, he is in his bed and his wife Mildred is in her bed with her Seashells in her ears. The significance of the quote is to show that Montag and his wife have such little interaction that Montag doesn't even know what to say to his wife. This epiphany affected how he sees his marriage by him seeing that he doesn’t even know what to say to her. 

]]> 2018-05-15 14:19:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260865748 Nina Grosso A https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260865854 In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag is the main character and is beginning to face internal struggles. His wife, Mildred, is the complete opposite, she is content in her life and has nothing to complain about. Mildred is empty inside and has nothing left to care for, including her husband. All she wants is the fourth wall of television. The simile, “Her face was like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain; over which clouds might pass their moving shadows, but she felt no shadow” (Bradbury 11) emphasizes the theme of electronics filling people with emptiness. Mildred is described like this to scare the reader to into distancing themselves from the upcoming technology. The simile presents the theme of that if they become addicted to television they will become shells of people and there will be nothing left to feel. The rain that “may fall” is the feelings that people have the ability to feel emotions. Bradbury explains that if the rain does fall, the emotions, then the island will not be bothered by this simply because there is nothing to feel by these shells of people. This also brings out the fear that Bradbury was experiencing, technology. Bradbury was afraid that the world was going to become addicted to these things and then they will be living meaningless lives. Bradbury is helping the reader conclude that Mildred is already so far gone into the world of nothingness that she can not be saved, but there is still time to save themselves. 

]]> 2018-05-15 14:19:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260865854 Marilyn Morocho https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260865965 Montag has experienced an epiphany when Clarisse asks him a simple question as he’s walking home. “He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out. Darkness. He was not happy… 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” (Bradbury 9).  This epiphany affects Montag’s life in many ways. He begins to question his marriage, because he doesn’t know if he truly loves Mildred. “And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn’t cry” (Bradbury 41). When Clarisse asked him if he was happy, it hit Montag hard. It made him see that the life he was currently living, wasn’t what he wanted for himself. When thinking about Mildred dying, Montag knows with certainty that he would not cry over her corpse. This is because he and Mildred don’t really know each other. Even though they’ve been married for a long time, they fizzled out. They no longer love each other, and Montag is only just realising this. Due to Clarisse’s question, Montag is wondering what in his life is true. His marriage is failing, and his job is also becoming something he can’t believe in. When he was called in to burn more books, there was always a strict rule they stuck to. “We burned a thousand books. We burned a woman” (Bradbury 47). This one woman who stayed with her books, and even lit the flame herself, has changed him. He saw someone die for what they believed in. It changed his entire perspective about his work because he has never seen anyone do that. There have been multiple points where Montag has an epiphany, and it truly changes him, and how he views his world forever.  


]]> 2018-05-15 14:19:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260865965 Gabe Lyden https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260866058 “Before he could move she had put the dandelion under his chin. He drew back and she laughed.’Hold still!’ She peered under his chin and frowned ‘Well’ he said. ‘What a Shame,’ she said ‘You’re not in love with anyone.’ ‘Yes I am!”. (Ray Bradbury) The speakers are Montag and Clarisse, this all takes place the morning after Mildred gets her stomach pumped from overdosing on sleeping pills which really causes Montag to rethink his relationship with Mildred. It really makes him think as to way she would do a thing like this when he walks out into the rain in the morning he sees Clarisse and she begins talking about the last dandelion and references to how if you put a dandelion underneath someone's chin and how if it reflects it will show if someone is in love or not. Clarisse uses the dandelion first and it shines/ reflects off the bottom of her chin. Then Montage doesn't want to do that but clarisse puts the dandelion under his chin and nothing reflects, this makes montage very upset and defensive. Because it brings him to the realization that he really doesn't like his wife or his life that much after all and how is wife is mindless and only cares about the Tv walls.


]]> 2018-05-15 14:19:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260866058 Joseph Piazza https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260866180 Throughout the course of Fahrenheit 451 the main character, Montag starts to realize that his life and marriage is not what he truly wants and that he is not happy. Montag tests the love between himself and Mildred, his wife, when he asks “‘When did we meet? And where?’”(Bradbury 40). It is late at night and both Montag and Mildred are laying in bed living their normal unsocial lives. After Montag’s recent talks with Clarisse, the young girl next door, he realizes that he is not happy with his life and his marriage. Mildred finally answers Montag’s questions after a hard period of thought and confusion, “‘I don’t know”’... “‘ It’s been so long”’(Bradbury 40). Mildred finally takes her earplugs out of her ear or and Bradburry refers to them, her seashells that allow her to listen to far people in far places. MIldred was unprepared for the question from Montag, since it was so out of the ordinary from her perspective. The truth is that Mildred has never truly cared for Montag, she only cares for his money to buy another life eating TV. Montag’s anger fills the bedroom as he realizes he has been living a lie and is unhappy. Montag answers by saying “‘Only ten years, that’s all, only ten”’(Bradburry 40). But he knows his marriage is over and his been over for years he has just been blinded by the society around him. This scene allows the reader to conclude that Montag has suddenly realized that he has been living a lie and needs to change his life around. This scene can easily be compared to our present society today]]> 2018-05-15 14:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260866180 Wesley Chen wesley_chen https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260866201 Montag has met a girl named Clarisse who is different than most others. She asks Montag questions which are different and strays off of the usual norm for Montag. She asks Montag questions like did firemen put out fires instead of start them, have you watched the jet cars racing on the boulevards down this way, and she asked one question that made Montag question himself, that question being “Are you happy?” (Bradbury 7). Montag then proceeds to question himself. He questions himself about his life, like his wife and job. After the realization that he does not understand why things are the way they are, he states that he wears his happiness like a mask. Additionally, in the text, Bradbury states “He was not happy. He was not happy”. Clearly, after being emphasized twice, Montag has had an epiphany, realizing that the world around him was not realistic  and that he was not happy with the way things are. He has also realized that he does not truly love his wife. After Clarisse put the dandelion underneath his chin and it did not glow, Montag came to the realization that he does not love his wife. Montag does not even realize when they first met and where they met. It is clear that Montag has had an epiphany and realizes that life is not what it should be. 


]]> 2018-05-15 14:20:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260866201 John Lespi https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260866273 "You weren't there, you didn't see," he said. "There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing." Montag realizes that the woman wouldn't kill herself for nothing because there is something good in books.

]]> 2018-05-15 14:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260866273 Alessia Pellegrini https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260866678 In this part of the story in the novel, Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is going to a house that has books hidden in it with the other firemen. Usually, the police come beforehand and take everyone out of the house before the firemen come. But, this time there is a woman still at the house and while the firemen are raiding her house for her books, she says quietly, “ ‘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’ ” (Bradbury 33). Here, the woman makes an allusion to Nicholas Ridley and Latimer, who were two men in England during the 1500s who were burned alive for heresy. This quote is significant in the context of the section in which it appears because the allusion indicates that the woman’s actions of hiding books could be considered heresy in the dystopian world she lives in, due to it being against the law. Latimer and Ridley were burned at the stake because they had different beliefs than the ones that were laid out by the king or queen, so they were eliminated due to them having different ideas and opinions. This relates to what happens with the woman because having books is against the law, and in turn she harbors different beliefs than everyone else and she does not conform to the rules and ideas so heavily ingrained in the society presented in Fahrenheit 451. So, instead of submitting to the firemen and letting them burn her books, the woman, “....reached out with contempt to them all, and struck the kitchen match against the railing. People ran out of houses all down the street” (Bradbury 37). To summarize, she lit a match that she had and instead of letting the firemen burn her house and books, she was the one who set her house on fire, which killed her as well. Just like Latimer and Ridley died for their beliefs rather than conforming, the woman does the exact same thing due to this action. Also, she exhibits her resistance to the way society is and the suppression of learning and education when she burns her house and books. In conclusion, this event in the book proves to be significant because of the resistance and nonconformity that is represented by the woman, which later sparks a realization in Guy Montag that affects the rest of the chapter, and ultimately the whole book. ]]> 2018-05-15 14:20:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260866678 Matt labriola https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260866883 “I sometimes think drivers don't know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly”. This quote is being said by Clarisse Mcclellan, she is speaking to Guy Montage on one of there late night walks. This quote is significant because it describes the world they live in. Clarisse is saying how nowadays the world is moving too fast, it's a metaphor because technology is increasing by more and more each year. And at this point people were afraid of technology. It's also emphasizing on how people in the world move too fast, they don't pay attention to the little things. They don't slow down to look at things anymore. Clarisse is explaining to Montage on how the world is different now in their time and not for the better. She Montage makes Montagues character change and it forces him to view the world differently. 


]]> 2018-05-15 14:21:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260866883 Amanda Smyth https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260867018 In Part 1 of Fahrenheit 451, the protagonist Guy Montag has an epiphany about his job and his life. “‘Clarisse...And men like Beatty are afraid of her. I can’t understand it. Why would they be so afraid of someone like her? But I kept putting her alongside the firemen in the House last night, and I suddenly realized I didn’t like them at all, and I didn’t like myself at all anymore’”(Bradbury 64). In this quote, Montag is explaining to his wife, Mildred, why he has 20 hidden books in their house, after she freaked out and was screaming and panicking. He explains how wrong it was to burn a woman with her books, how wrong it was that Clarisse was “‘better off dead’”(Bradbury 58), and how wrong it was to burn something that a person worked very hard on writing it. He then realizes how messed up society is, with it’s fast car-driving, lots of meaningless tv watching, and book burning. This quote also shows how, and when, he put it all together, but not all of it started right there and then. Montag realized some of this when he was talking to Beatty, and Beatty said “‘She was a time bomb...She didn’t want to know how a thing was done, but why. That can be embarrassing. You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it’”(Bradbury 57-58). Beatty is trying to put reason, the fake reason, to why firemen burn books, but is basically covering up the real reason. Montag sees through this, and then puts all the little and big hints together. Also, the part of the quote where Beatty says “‘You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it’”(Bradbury 57-58) sounds like Clarisse’s death was not an accident, and that Clarisse was killed by the people of society because she was different. This  shows the lengths that this messed up society will go to keep everyone mindless and the same as everyone else. Additionally, this part of the quote foreshadows that soon the society will come after Montag if he stays different like Clarisse. ]]> 2018-05-15 14:21:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260867018 Leshawn Bird https://padlet.com/kshenefield1/r9qgutv2kiyg/wish/260868507
“The Hound half rose in its kennel and looked at him with green-blue neon light flickering in its suddenly activated eye bulbs. It growled again, a strange rasping combination of electrical sizzle, a frying sound, a scraping of metal, a turning of cogs that seemed rusty and ancient with suspicion.” (Bradbury 23)

While Montag was at work the Mechanical Hound started to growl and raise suspicion towards Montag. The objective of the Hound is to sniff out anyone who is going against the program and rebelling against the rules. Which is what Montag was doing. Montag had started to take more interest in reading books and he also kept a hidden stash of books in his ventilator. As Montag takes more and more interest in books, the more aware the Hound becomes. This shows that Montag is realizing the importance of a book. He is also realizing that he’s no longer happy in his marriage, his job, and his life overall. 
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