https://padlet.com/bemisjef000/wm2f7n05lkbr Jeffrey Bemis en-us 2018-10-15 13:18:24 UTC 2021-07-10 15:48:18 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Soccerball.png bemisjef000 https://padlet.com/bemisjef000/wm2f7n05lkbr/wish/294010158 "So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless(P. 79)." It is the want for comfort that has let the government rule the way that it does in the story. Very little enforcing is needed, the citizens being dazed you could say, by their own empty happiness. Books threaten this little happiness they have by reminding the citizens what the rest of the world is really like.]]> 2018-10-17 17:49:19 UTC https://padlet.com/bemisjef000/wm2f7n05lkbr/wish/294010158 bemisjef000 https://padlet.com/bemisjef000/wm2f7n05lkbr/wish/294018140 "Mildred kicked at a book.  "Books aren't people."  You read and I looked all around, but there isn't anybody(69)!"  Mildred is expressing her anger while reading with Montag.  Her anger saying that books aren't people is the complete opposite of what the whole story is about, treating books as people.  And Mildred just expressed her feelings to us about the entire situation.]]> 2018-10-17 18:00:08 UTC https://padlet.com/bemisjef000/wm2f7n05lkbr/wish/294018140