Sunday, April 27, 2008
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Fahrenheit 451 # 6

“Number one: Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You’d find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion. The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more ‘literary’ Fresh detail.”
This passage was the most significant out of any passages in this book because this was the

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There are millions of current situations in the world that relate to the novel. As the media developed and expanded, people started to get used to the media. They surf internet, watch televisions, listen to the radio, or play video games and so on. It has become a crucial part of our culture and life. However, often times, they tend to be the major sources of problems such as immoral and disrespectful comments on articles or inappropriate language uses. These problems can be extended as far as political problems as well. People debate and argue about political issues online and post them up so that everybody else could see. These things happen daily and just like in the novel, some are obsessed about televisions or other things. We, teenagers, commonly get “addicted” to those things as well. We get absorbed into the world of media and refuse to see the world as an actual world. This is how the current situations in the world today relate to this novel.
Our real life is not much different from the book because we choose to rely on media instead of relying on literature. Some of us think that there is no point in learning literature because it only complicates things and makes everything verbal and abstract. In the book, Captain Beatty was explaining to Guy how all the firemen went through an ambivalent moment but soon decided to live a simple life. People sometimes don’t want to study literature and do what Beatty did but by reading this book, we shouldn’t even complain about having literature as our culture at all. This novel, Fahrenheit 451, suggests that literature is important and that it should be maintained because it brings us life, happiness, and passion. One day, literature will be forgotten within our simplicity but we ought to live with hope and rebuild the society of refinement.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Fahrenheit 451 # 2
Most of the characters in this novel were round characters. They seemed simple but were capable to change and were complex. Here are the reasons why I liked them or disliked them and what they revealed about the universal human experience.

Guy Montag has revealed many things about universal human experience. He represented the significance of one’s own desire. If one wants something really bad, they ought to success in achieving that. When he killed Beatty, I knew that he was thinking about rebelling against the firemen—thinking about his goal. Guy Montag has shown that anybody could fall in love with literature because of a strong and firm desire to do so. Now that literature really became a big part of his life, he wanted to build a new civilization. This is not a simple thing to do but Montag had already made up his mind because of his courage, to start a new life.
Mildred Montag is Guy’s creepy wife who attempts to commit suicides for several times. She is neither a protagonist nor an antagonist in this novel because while she is Montag’s one and only wife, she betrays her husband simply by telling on him to the fire station that he had books hidden in his house. I did not really like this character but instead, I pitied her for her

Captain Beatty, the chief firemen, is the antagonist in this novel. He gets killed in a very sympathetic way. He strongly opposed literature although he knew a lot about it. This tells me that he once had fallen in love with the books at one point in his life but because of his

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When I was reading this book, I was surprised by how literature could affect our society. The significance of books, the existence of the littlest things around us, and even our curiosity could make huge differences in our cultures and our conceptions. However, many teenagers tend to think that literature will not benefit their lives in the future or change the way they live. As a teenager, I personally have thought that there was absolutely no point in learning literature. Nonetheless, I was wrong because there were uncountable numbers of reasons why literature was significant to my life and the world that I live in. In the book, the main character, Guy Montag is the one who faces an enormous dilemma where he has to choose his side between ‘the firemen’ and ‘the book people’. He is symbolizing the teenagers living in this world today because at first, he did not even think about how books could deepen our thoughts but only believed in the conception that books only made things complicated. However, later on, he becomes curious and spends more time on his own and thinks fervently about why all the people were obsessed about reading books as he meets a seventeen-year-old girl who is odd and abstract. Just like Guy Montag, I think the teenagers should know how important literature could change the way we think and how it could broaden and deepen our experience.
In addition, the people in the ‘firemen’ society do not enjoy nature, think independently, or
