Monday, April 30, 2007
451
I'm up to page 130 now and the story is starting to get very suspenseful with Montag being on the run. The scene where he is attempting to cross the boulevard is very exciting becuase the beetle is approaching but you don't know if it is the cops or not. When the car passes and Montag makes the connection that it might have been the ones who killed Clarisse it is a thoguht that brings the reader and Montag back to the beliefs and actions of Clarisse. I find it a bit ironic that he wouldn't be crossing the street if he hadn't of known Clarisse but his change of mind didn't really come until he fouind out that she had died. So for him to encounter the possible car that killed her while he was doing the same thing she was doing (for all we know she could of been running away also) is some what ironic. It's as if there is a natural element in this society that gets rid of people like this. People who think differently and disturb the peace. The 'normal' people don't cross the street and for good reasons. The one's who are not 'normal' must cross the streets to get away and in this way the streets are a tool to kill these people. I find it bery brave and rightgeous of Montag to place those books in the house of his fellow fireman. I felt as though he gained revenge on the people that held him down by doing this and by burning Beatty. Montag is certainly out to change the world.
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Kerth brings up a good point in the idea of the "normal" people being out to kill the abnormal ones. Its one of those ideas that may or not be real, but something hidden that we can only think about. I'll admit the book is bland, but luckily we get some suspense in the chase of Montag (which is very short lived though). Montag putting the books into the fellow firemen's house doesn't make total sense to me. He does that because he wants the firemen burning books to rebel on themselves if you will. WHat I don't get is why this one firemen was singled out unless Montag had a hidden grudge on him. Montag definitely is out to change the way society is run in the book, but I'm not sure if I like how he's trying to do it.
I would have to agree with vinny in that the book is pretty bland but when you think about if our own world were like this one then it becomes a little more interesting. When you think about a world where you would not be able to speak out or walk the streets or read anything becasue there would be no newspapers or books it becomes weird. It seems even weirder when you think that if you lived in that world you could be falling in love with your tv characters as well.
Actually, when you do think about it, the ideas represented in this book are not too far from the way we actually live today. Many books are banned for certain views and ideas that upset or offend certain groups of people. We live in homes with tvs that are almost the size of our walls, and growing. And even our thoughts are becoming limited with so much emphasis on making sure that no one is offended with the certain things we do or say. So when you say bland book, watch out because then you're almost saying that our society is bland too.
When you strip away all the completely exaggerated parts in the 451 society and compare it to the world that we live in today, the book isn’t that much different from our current society. I agree that we have to limit what we say in public because it could get us in trouble, and reading certain books or accepting different views is a situation that compares with 451 and today’s society.
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