Thursday, May 10, 2007
Farenheit 451...The Beginning
As I first opened the book "Farenheit 451" I was startled yet intrigued by what the author was introducing to me. A dystopia indeed, the story begins with a firefighter named Montag and a young woman named Clarisse. They are in mid conversation when Clarisse begins questioning things about the past, our present, that have been forgotten and changed into something diabolical over time. Among these things we find out that it is now "illegal to read books", and it is expected that they be burned. In our time today, this seems insane. Also, Clarisse mentions that in the past, again our present, firefighters would "put out fires instead of starting them." Their familiar world is a land of confusion to me, and the book pulls me in for more madness.
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Tal: Some original thoughts about the novel here. You mention how the world in the novel seems "insane." How do you think it got to that point? What is it about the society and what people deem important that allows it to continue? What is it about human nature that could allow something like this to come about?
Keep reading and writing.
Does it really? Back in the early 30's and 40's...World War II, such a thing wasn't as inconceivable as you so believe...
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