Robby Treadwell
2/27/13
51-63
Period 4
Summary: Montag and Mildred are in their room when Captain Beatty knocked on their door. He came to talk to them just about sports, but when Mildred was cleaning the bed she almost took the pillow off that was covering Montag's book. Clarisse and her family are also proved to have false records from where they lived.
Quotation: "There must be something in books, things we can't imagine. to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something here. You don't stay for nothing." (51)
Quotation Significance: In this quote we learn more about why the men burn the books. The books must have something very serious in them as said in the quote.
Reflection: This was an interesting set of pages to read. I like reading the scene about when Beatty almost found the book. Those pages were very fast for me to read because they wanted me to keep reading to find out what was going to happen. I wonder what would have happened if Beatty actually saw the book because it got so close to happening. I was confused about reading what happened to Clarisse if she is alive or dead. I am interested though to read about what is going to happen in the next set of pages.
Discussion Question: What would have happened if Captain Beatty saw the book.
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ReplyDeleteI'd like to hear your views on how our society is like that of Fahrenheit 451. It's interesting to me, for example, that our culture isn't burning books, but book stores are disappearing since books are becoming digital. I wonder if this will lead to fewer and fewer people reading books as the years go by since it's a lot easier to watch movies on a screen than read... Could that lead us to a new "dark ages" since almost no one will have read any of the Greek or Roman classics or any of the Victorian novels or philosophical treatises of the 19th and 20th centuries?