"Mama Made The Difference" Post 5

5 Things I Understand:
-Towards the end, Jakes starts really opening up to God.
-Prayer is T.D. Jakes's way of escaping the world, and trying to connect with God.
-Jakes's mother taught him to always have high standards for himself.
-Jakes feels that he needs more trust and admiration in his wife, because he feels as if he doesn't enough.
-T.D learns that even though you may do something late, that you should always do it because it always counts.

4 Questions:
-Why do you think his mother's lessons made such an impact of who he is today?
-What is the symbolism of the poem?
-Why is there a sense of distrust in Jakes toward his wife, when he is suppose to be a Christian?
-What crowd does T.D Jakes write this book to?

3 Words:
-Ordeal (Jakes 166): any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial.
-Surmise (Jakes 173): to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.
-Diplomat (Jakes 260): a person appointed by a national government to conduct official negotiations and maintain political, economic, and social relations with another country or countries.

2 Literary Devices:
- Idiom: "Others call him revolutionary because of his ability to think outside of the bos" (Jakes 266).
- Metaphor: "The devil is a liar!" (Jakes 267).

1 Summary Sentence:Basically T.D. Jakes is concluding his story with the general purpose of all his mother's lesssons.

"Mama Made The Difference: Post 4

5 Things I Understand:
-His mother tried to live close to the Lord, and live in His image.
-She tried to teach her son humiliation to God, so that they could live eternally.
-She died while Jakes was egtting his life together.
-Jakes worked ahrd to be able to live up to the standards of his mother and the rest of his family.
-Living a good straight life is very important to his family.

4 Questions:
-Did he see it as a good thing when his mother died? (That she was now in Heaven.)
-What was the biggest factor that made him turn his life around?
-What did ROTC teach him in the long-run?
-What kind of effect did Naomi and Ruth have on T.D. Jakes's life?

3 Words:
-Insidious (Jakes 140): intended to entrap or beguile.
-Poignantly (Jakes 142): keenly distressing to the feelings.
-Orator (Jakes 157): an eloquent and skilled public speaker.

2 Literary Devices:
-Personification: "These emotion, when left to run their course, lead to jealousy" (Jakes 137).
-Simile: "With her family all around her, Mama was in excellent spirits. It was like joy-like a holy electricity-ricocheting around the room" (Jakes 166).

1 Sentence Summary: Jakes mother has died, and now he has to live on his own, to try to make a good name for his family.

"Mama Made The Difference" Post 3

5 Things I understand:
-T.D.Jakes lets many different people tell their story in the book.
-This next section basically lets a substiute teacher of him tell her story about her life experiences.
-The substitute basically explains how she wants her son to be proud of her.
-I notice that he has a strong admiration to strong African American leaders.
-His mother seems to have a good head on her shoulders, and thinks very highly of her son; T.D. Jakes.

4 Questions:
-If he lets others tell their stories, why is the book really only thanking his mother?
-Why does Jakes's opinion of his mother so important to her?
-Did he ever feel overwhelmed when he was expected to not make any mistakes?
-Were mistakes made seen as a sin or just as a mistake?

3 Words:
-Magnetometers (Jakes 109): an instrument for measuring the intensity of a magnetic field, esp. the earth's magnetic field.
-Implement (Jakes 110): an article of equipment, as household furniture, clothing.
-Impoverish (Jakes 110): reduced to poverty.

2 Literary Devices:
- Personification: "She was born and raised amid the balmy breezes and laid-back cultue of Jamaica" (Jakes 111).
- Simile: "I hae a sister, but being a man with a sister may not be as challenging as being a woman with one" (Jakes 131).

1 Summary Sentence: These next couple of sections he lets other people tel their stories about their connection of effect they had on their as well as their own life.

"Mama Made the Difference" Post 2

5 Comments:
-Jakes says thast the only reason why he is able to be respnosible is because he observed the hardships his mother had to go through.
-Jakes defines responsibility as not complaining about having to do different tasks even though they may get too hard.
-We get a whole new look at the King family from T.D. Jakes.
-We see how important mothers are to the world, and it is even more portrayed in Bernice King's speech.
-It was a good idea for Jakes to let Bernice tell the story of her parents since she knew them most.

4 Questions:
-How did Jakes comfort Bernice when her father died?
-How come Coretta King stayed with Martin Luther King for so long, if she really wasn't into him?
-Why was Coretta so submissive?
-How did Jakes get the idea to incorporate more than one mother in his biography?

3 Words:
-"...so I was not surprised that she had been a chorister in her younger days" (Jakes 59). (Definition:a singer in a choir.)
-"...they discovered that they shared similar concernsabout the plight of African Americans in the South" (Jakes 64). (Definition: to give in pledge, as one's word, or to pledge, as one's honor.)
-"My mother was a righteous woman and she prayed "effectual, fervent" prayers" (Jakes 72). (Definition: having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm.)

2 Literary Devices:
-Simile: "My life, like yours, has included its thrills and its chills..." (Jakes 73). This is a simile because it compares T.D. Jakes's life with the reader's life.
-Simile: "Interestingly enough, amny men often meet and marry a woman "just like Mom," only to find out that they feel pulled in different directions..." (Jakes 89). This is a simile because it compares the women men marry to the mothers of the men.

1 Summary Sentence: These couple of sections were basically about his mother's devotion to her relationship with God, and talks alot about Coretta King.

"Mama Made the Difference" Post 1

5 Comments:
-T.D remembers as a young child how his mother always watched everything he did, to show him whats right and wrong.
-T.D Jakes was taught by his mother to be a strong believer in God.
- T.D believes that the way his mother pressed religion on him, is actually a gift to be thankful for.
-Basically in Jakes begins to talk about how important God is to him.
-We can look to God for help, and for the answers we need.

4 Questions:
-Did Jakes ever get tired of his mother's constant eye watching him?
- Is religion one of the biggest things in their family?
-Where is Virginia Madison from?
- What kind of things did Jakes do in the church?

3 Words:
-"I recall being a young man caught in the cusp between childhood..." (Jakes 13). (Definition: a point or pointed end.)
-"So one night I succumbed to the temptation and formulated what I thought would be a Mama-proof plan" (Jakes 13-14). (Definition: to give way to superior force; yield.)
-"You see, a young person's self-confidence is a fragile commodity" (Jake 27). (Definition:something of use, advantage, or value.).

2 Literary Devices:
-Metaphor: "You are the handicap you must face," (Jakes 27). This is a metaphor because he is desribing a person who doesn't believe in themself to a handicap person.
-Simile: "much quieter, less outspoken, a self-described "background person" who worked like a horse" (Jakes 30). This is a simile because it basically compares the way the step-mother works to a horse's work.

1 Summary Sentence: Basically I read about three sections about three different lessons T.D Jakes's mother taught them.

The Color Purple Movie Post

Things I Understand:

• It is importnat to how the director puts the burden on the black woman.
• The black woman are always in the screen with another person most likely a man, to probably show them inferior.
• Sophia feels unfamiliar with her own family. High and wide shot when she is walking through her family outside. This shows how much people there actually was.
• When SHug is coming to town Albert rushes to get dressed. Close-up, on what he puts on.
• His feet are disgusing, there is a close-up to show how bad his higene is.
• Low shot as Albert bends down to pick up something.
• The frame stays on Mr. Albert as he moves, but then he goes to the background as there is a mid-shot on Celie.
• Low shot following the flyer, then closeup to show what flyer says.
• "I'm not dead" important because it shows that Nettie has had enough stength to live on her own.
• As Nettie is running in Africa there is a pan as the camera follows her. Albert is nothing without Celie. We see as he is drunk a wide shot to see the overall atmosphere of the place he was at.
• At the end, the camera also goes from wide to a close-up. The camera comes closer to Nettie and Celie as they play their hand game.

Questions:

• Why is everyone in the movie so overemotional?
• What is the significance of Sophia being taken away from her family?
• How does Celie deal with the constant judgement and degrading attitudes?
• Does Shug only get married to show off or to actually changeher ways?
• Why does the begining of the movie start so tragically?
• What does the sun setting as Celie reads the letters symbolize?
• Is Celie content with her new life?

Summary:

Basically the whole movie is about two sisters' paths to find each other once again in order to continue happy lives. We also see the struggles of the Africa American women in the story. "The Color Purple" is a movie where it teacehs out self strength, and how a person shoul do what they want to do, rather than being held down, and what not.

The Color Purple Post 5

5 Things I Understand:

• Celie and Nettie plan on meeting up at some point.
• Celie's real father has passed away, and she has received basically all her father's property.
• Nettie and Celie's children can' get to America without proof.
• Albert has some kind of epiphany, and decides to help get Nettie back into America.
• Celie and Nettie have differnt lives, but still have lots of love for each ther, that had never decreased.

4 Questions:

• Why did Albert not get angry when he found out that Celie has become independent?
• What does Celie's personality change say about Alice Walker?
• Why isn't there a ending where Celie really gets to know her children?
• When did Samuel and his wife get married?

3 Words:

• Preshate (Walker 272): could not find a definition.
• Omantangu (Walker 276): could not find a definition.
• Miration (Walker 287): could not find a definition.

2 Literary Devices:

• Simile: "You on and off like a jackrabbit" (Waker 271).
• Metaphor: "I think this the youngest us ever felt" (Walker 288).

1 Summary Sentence: Celie and Nettie are finally reuinted.

The Color Purple Post 4

5 Things I Understand:

• Nettie is a missionary in Africa.
• We find out that Celie is a mother of two children.
• Celie is pretty much depressed because everything that is suppoe to be important to her isn't that important or of significance.(page 177)
• Now that Celie knows where Nettie is she can keep in contact with her.
• Celie's kids are name Samuel and Olivia.

4 Questions:

• Why did Nettie decide to lead a life in Africa rather than in America where she was born?
• How did Nettie find out that Celie had two kids, and Celie didn't even know?
• Why is Corrine so significant to the novel as a whole?
• Why is the phrase lynched daddy repeatedly said?

3 Words:

• Blasphemy (Walker 192): an act of cursing or reviling God.
• Swivel (Walker 199): a fastening device that allows the thing fastened to turn around freely upon it, esp. to turn in a full circle.
• Ailing (walker 210): sickly; unwell.

2 Literary Devices:

• simile: "Nettie say somewhere in the bible it say Jesus' hair was like lamb's wool" (Walker 194).
• matephor: "God ain't a he or a she, but a It" (Walker 195).

1 Summary Sentence: This sections is basically about letters going backand forth between Nettie and Celie.

The Color Purple Post 3

5 Things I Understand:

• Shug and Mr. kind of have a on and off relationship going on.
• Celie pretty much hates Mr.
• Shug is having somewhat of a confession on page 122.
• Celie finds out that Mr.(Albert) has been stealing and hiding all the letters from Nettie.
• In this section Nettie's letters to Celie are the most important thing.

4 Questions:

• Where is Nettie?
• On page 121 why is the word "funny" italisized?
• Why was Celie picked on so much?
• Why did Albert go after Nettie after he made her leave?

3 Words:

• "...American and African Missionary Society" (Walker 128). (Def: a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities, as educational or hospital work.)
• "...what they call pidgin English" (Walker 148). (Def: an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages.)
• "They plant cassava fields..." (walker 152). (Def: a nutritious starch from the roots, the source of tapioca.)

2 Literary Devices:

• Simile: "Little like sleeping with mama..." (Walker 114). This is a simile because Celie compares laying with Shug like laying with her mother.
• Simile: "That's why the bible says that Jesus Christ had hair like lamb's wool" (Walker 135).

1 Summary Sentence: In this section we find out the Albert has been hiding the letters sent from Nettie so that Celie would not receive them.

The Color Purple Post 2

5 Things I Understand:

• Shug is basically a mess, when she is brought to their home.
• Celie finds her comfort place when she is sewing between Mr. and Shug Avery.
• Celie seems to be somewhat educated, but the way she is telling the story seems as if she dumb.
• Celie is a person you can talk to about anything, we see it when Harpo's wife is talking about Harpo.
• Shug seems very ignoant.

4 Questions:

• Why does Celie write in fragments?
• How come Celie hardly mentions Nettie?
• Where are Celie's kids?
• Why does it really seem as if Celie is becoming more stronger and independent as she encounters more people?

3 Words:

• "She muse" (Walker 58). (Def: to meditate on.)
• "Jukejoint sposed to be back in the woods..."(Walker 69). (Def: an establishment where one can eat, drink, and, usually, dance to music provided by a jukebox.)
• "It put me in the mind of a gramaphone" (Walker 98). (Def: the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s.)

2 Literary Devices:

• Simile: "She smile, like a razor opening" (Walker 57). This is a simile because it compares Shug's smile to a razor opening.
• Metaphor: "She look bout ten with her hair all cornrowed" (Walker 57). This is a metaphor becausemthe main character Ceiley is saying Shug looks like a ten year old because her hair style.

1 Summary Sentence: In this section we encounter more characters as Celie learns more about her own life as well as others.

The Color Purple Post 1

5 Things I Understand:

• In the beginning the main character is talking to God.
• It's sad how the main character's mother died, when she was still at a young age.
• It's kind of ironic how the character is telling God everything that happens, when she also believes God knows everything and makes everything happen for a reason.
• It is obvious that the character, I presume to be the main character, does not have a good relationship with her mother or most anyone.
• Reading the book is somewhat confusing because the main character jumps from topic to topic with no transitions.

4 Questions:

• Why is the main character talking to God, if God is all knowing?
• Who is Lucious?
• Who really killed the baby?(I don't believe God killed it.)
• Why is there so much dying in the beginning of the story?

3 Words:

• "She say Mr. ___ was taking somethin out his billfold to show Pa..."(Walker 6). (Def: a thin, flat, folding case, often of leather, for carrying paper money in the pocket and with fewer compartments than a wallet.)
• "What you settingherelaughing like a fool fer" (Walker 15).(Def: a combining form meaning that which carries the thing specified by the initial element, used in the formation of compound words.)
• "He drop the hoe in the furrow" (Walker 26). (Def: a narrow groove made in the ground, esp. by a plow.)

2 Literary Devices:

• Simile: "They cry like they mama just die" (Walker 29). This is a simile because they describe the way the children were cring with the way they would cry if their mother died.
• Interjection: "He fell bam up against the stove" (Walker 37). This is interjection because it expresses a sound.

1 Summary Sentence: The first section of my reading is just the main character giving a plot as she grows older; about her family and what happens around town.

Tenth 5,4,3,2,1

5 Comments:

• Montag meets the other men, and we find outh that there is pretty much a league of these people who hold different stories with them.
• The purpose of these five men are to restore the area they are in of knowledge from the stpries they have remembered, and to help rebuild.
• The story several times has a theme to not judge a book by its cover whether it's an actual book or a person.
• Montag doesn't love or miss his wife, but does create a mental note of her dying in the bomb attack.
• Granger is very intellectual,a nd smart. My favorite line by him, is when he compares the world to a pheonix who keeps starting over.

4 Questions:

• What does darkness symbolize?
• How is Granger so sure that after this event is over, there will be another event just like it that takes place?
• What is Guy'd reaction to Granger's analogies?
• Why don't the other men say anything?

3 Words:
Silhouette( Bradbury 137): a dark image outlined against a lighter background.
Seance (Bradbury 138): a session or sitting, as of a class or organization.
Incite (Bradbury 152): to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action.

2 Literary Devices:
Metaphor: "We're the odd minority" (Bradbury 152).
Simile: "...he was like a sculpture..."(Bradbury 153).

1 Summary Sentence:
Granger compares mankind to a phoenix rising again and again from its own ashes, and comments that they will first need to build a mirror factory to take a long look at themselves. The men turn upriver toward the city to help the survivors rebuild from the ashes.

Nineth 5,4,3,2,1

5 Comments:

• Guy Montag is smart because he knows that he can know how far away the hounds are by looking inside the homes of people with tv parlors.
• He finally makes it to the railroads after escaping from the Hounds, the helicoptors, and the sight of the people.
• Guy is greeted by five homeless men, whoa re surprisingly different from homelss people in the real world.
• The five men are highly knowledgable about the habits of the police when something like this event happens.
• We learn that nobody in this world is safe if they aren't a part of the government or of importance.

4 Questions:

• Why does everyone in the stroy basically do the same hing at the same time?
• How does he sense that Clarisse might have been at teh railroad?
• If these men are homeless, how do they have access to technology or the chemical they gave Guy?
• How does Montag feel when he sees the man get killed, and knew that that could have been him?

3 Words:
Insidious (Bradbury 86): intended to entrap or beguile.
Welter (Bradbury 90): to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea.
Porcelain (Bradbury): a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.

2 Literary Devices:
Simile:"How like a beautiful statue of ice it was, melting in the sun" (Bradbury 90).
Simile:" You heave them into the parlor and turn the witch. It's like washing clothes: stuff laundry in and slam the lid"(Bradbury 96).

1 Summary Sentence: In this section Montag is on the run, and finally makes it the five men who have been waiting for him, and in the end sees another man be picked for his punishment.

Eighth 5,4,3,2,1

5 Comments:

• Montag thinks that Mildred called in the alarm, when he sees her running from the house with a suitcase.
• Montag knows that his plan will be foiled unless he does something, so he decides to burn Beatty to death.
• Guy is a strong character by never giving up, and forcing himself to move on, even though it's almost impossible.
• Clarisse is still on Guy's mind even though she is long gone.
• Guy is going to become a fugitive of the United States.

4 Questions:

• Why is there random children driving?
• What does Montag feel about basically becoming a fugitive of the United States?
• Is there ever a time, Faber wants to get out of this situation, and just fend for himself?
• Who is going to fight in the war?

3 Words:
Chromium (Bradbury 79): a lustrous, hard, brittle, metallic element used in alloy steels for hardness and corrosion resistance, as in stainless steel, and for plating other metals: chromium salts are used as pigments and mordants.

Dentifrice (Bradbury79): a paste, powder, liquid, or other preparation for cleaning the teeth.

Veiled (Bradbury 81): lacking clarity or distinctness.

2 Literary Devices:
Personification: "The tain radio vomited upong Montag (Bradbury 79).
Similie: "It's as old as history" (Bradbury81).

1 Summary Sentence: In this section Montag has to make it away from the state/country when his house alaramed, and his house if put on fire. He goes to drarastic measures to get away freely.

Seventh 5,4,3,2,1

5 comments:

• In this world basially everything is opposite from the way our world is.
• Montag will not let his point be subsided, and instead speaks out, and shows what books can do.
• Guy gets angry when Mildred's friends just don't listen to him when he is reading the book, and tells them to leave.
• Beatty's belief is that books shouldn't be read, but instead burned.
• Guy's house is going to be burned, when an alarm goes off, and gives his address.

4 questions:

• Why doesn't Mildred back Guy up, or even try to get people on his side?
• If Guy saw that his plan was going nowhere, why wouldn't he just take Mildred's story like he was advised?
• Wat is he feeling when he discovers that Milderd had been burning his books that he collected?
• Why does Beatty constantly quote things from literature, but then say reading is bad?

3 words:
Figments (Bradbury 62): Something invented, made up, or fabricated.
Torrent (Bradbury 62): a stream of water flowing with great rapidity and violence.
Gullet (Bradbury 62): the esophagus.

2 literary devices:
Metaphor: "She was a time bomb" (Bradbury60).
Personification: "...rushed him through the dead cellars of town" (Bradbury 78).

1 Summary Sentence: In this section Guy tries to convince others to follow his new plan, and it sends with the alarm of a new building going to be burned; his house.

Sixth 5,4,3,2,1

5 Comments:

• Even though Clarisse is dead Guy stills finds himself still thinking about her.
• Guy calls Faber to see if he will help him, but ended up disappointed when he was hung up upon.
• Guy is basically planning to foil the system, which he used to be apart of, by trying to duplicate the Bible that he got from the old woman.
• Faber basically says that the world is trying to hide itself from the truth of the world, and is trying to create a world in which life is easy.
• Faber seems to be very intellectual and smart, and may be the reason why their plan suceeds along with Guy's bravery.

4 Questions:

• Did Guy actually think that professor Faber would actually help him, after what he did to him?
• In the book, is everyone exceptant that they basically can't live their own lives?
• Why does it feel as if it didnt't take much for Guy to change his outlook on books?
• Do you think Mildred will go along with the plan?

3 Words:

Theremin (Bradbury 61): a musical instrument with electronic tone generation, the pitch and tone volume being controlled by the distance between the player's hands and two metal rods serving as antennas.

Top heavy (Bradbury 61): having a financial structure overburdened with securities that have priority in the payment of dividends.

Tax-mad (Bradbury 61): to over tax.

2 Literary Devices:

Metaphor: "Heredity and environment are funny things" (Bradbury 60).

Personification: "Then they'll feel they're thinking" (Bradbury 61).

1 Summary Sentence: In this section basically Guy is planning on overthrowing the United States mission of destroying all books, along with professor Faber.

Fifth 5,4,3,2,1

5 Comments:

• Beatty comes over because he knows Guy is experiencing the same thing all the firemen have experienced at some time in their of lives.
• He comes over to tell Guy the history of books and firemen {because many books became the same thing, and some became objective}.
• Beatty tells Guy that the point of being firemen is to burn the books that could help someone exceed to be intellectual, spiritual, and practical over others and so make everyone else feel inferior.
• Guy doesn't plan on ever going back to work at the fire station again after Beatty's visit.
• Mildred becomes frantic when both she and us find out that Guy has been smuggling books for a while.

4 Questions:

• Why does Mildred try so hard to get Guyin trouble?
• How did Clarisse family become the only family that fought against the system of the United States?
• How do they know who has books, and where they are?
• Why does Guy want to involve Mildred in his search if she is determined to basically throw him undedr a bus?

3 Words:

Pantomime (Bradbury 37): the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.

Kerosene (Bradbury 40): a mixture of liquid hydrocarbons obtained by distilling petroleum, bituminous shale, or the like, and widely used as a fuel, cleaning solvent, etc.

Noncombustible (Bradbury 61): not flammable.

2 Literary devices:
Hyperbole: "...so fast under the pumping hands of publishers..." (Bradbury 43).

Personification: "...and tore the breath from his mouth..." (Bradbury 46).
1 Summary Sentence: In this section Beatty comes over, and shares with Guy his knowledge of the old United States, and the past of books.

Fourth 5,4,3,2,1

5 Comments:

• Guy is going to keep the book, maybe it will come to use one day.
• Mildred just seems like a crazy woman, who doesn't seem right for Guy.
• Mildred's family has supposingly moved away, and Clarisse has supposingly been killed in a car accident.
• Guy is kind of feeling bad about his job, and feels that he should take time away from it.
• Mildred seems to wear the pants in the rlationship, it feels as if Guy has no say.

4 Questions:

• Does anyone know how to read?
• Why is Clarisse suddenly taken out of the story in a tradgic way?
• Why does Mildred act so mean to Guy?
• What does Mildred do for work?

3 Words:
Gibbering (Bradbury 44): To prattle and chatter unintelligibly.
Centrifuge (Bradbury 45): an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
Cacophony (Bradbury 45):a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds

2 Literary Devices:
Simile: "It was like a faint drift of greenish luminescent smoke" (Bradbury 48).
Personification: "The parlor roared in the hot air" (Bradbury 50).

1 Summary Sentence: In this section we find out that Clarisse may be dead, and that Guy is beginning to feel bad aboyut his job, and may think it's time to take time away from it.

Third 5,4,3,2,1

5 comments:

• Guy feels as if her is not liked or feels like someone is goiing against him, when he is threatened for the thrid time by the attack dog.
• We see that Clarisse and Guy's relationship is getting a little stronger, and they are starting to talk more.
• Clasrisse is obviously making some kind of effect on Guy's life.
• It's funny how the book basically switches the real history with facts that makes the book more enjoyable. For example when it says that Benjamin Franklin created firemen in 1790 in order for all books to be burned.
• We find Guy is changing when he pockets a book.

4 Questions:

• What kind of emotions does he feel when he doesn't see Clarisse?
• Why is Clarisse such an inquisitve character, and why does she always ask very personal questions?
• What phases Guy to pocket the book?
• Why does the author make the old woman die with her books? What is the signinficance?

3 words:
Hubcaps (Bradbury 30): A round covering over the hub of the wheel of a motor vehicle.
Proclivities (Bradbury 33): natural or habitual inclination or tendency.
Cellophore (Bradbury 33): a tube-like structure on the ventral side of the first abdominal segment of the body of a collembolan.

2 literary devices:
Simile: "It's like a lesson in ballistics" (Bradbury 26).
Simile: "But everyone I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild" (Bradbury 30).

1 Summary Sentence: In this sections of the reading, Guy continues to go to work, as well as talk with Clarisse, and as days go on he is faced with a big challenge which impacts his life in a way.

Second 5,4,3,2,1

5 Comments:

• Guy is kind of bewildered of why he is thinking about what Clarisse said to him, and begins to question himself.
• Guy begins to think tht his life was a lie to himself.
• Mildred and Guy don"t seem to have a healthy relationship with each other.
• It is funny that Clarisse is forced to psychiatrist for her lack of being social, when it seems like she is the most social character in the book so far.
• It seems as if Guy is becoming more like Clarisse in the way he wants to be free, and to be himself.

4 Questions:

• Why does Guy begin to feel so much regret about his own life?
• Is this book suppose to portray a utopian world?
• Why does Mildred try to kill herself?
• Would you say that Guy is suddenly depressed?

3 Words:
Hypnotic (Bradbury 17): inducing sleep.
Lozenge (Bradbury 18): a small, flavored tablet made from sugar or syrup, often medicated, originally diamond-shaped.
Conjure (Bradbury 20): to affect or influence by or as if by invocation or spell.

2 Literary Devices:
Hyperbole: "He tried yo conjure up a force to fit the words" (Bradbury 22).
Metaphor: "These men were all mirror images" (Bradbury 33).

1 Summary Sentence: In this section we find what kind of erlationship Guyhas with his wife, and the growing "friendship" he has with Clarisse.

First 5,4,3,2,1

5 Comments:

• Guy Montag is a fireman and is also the main chracter of the book.
• Guy gets excitement out of burning the books so that the United States in the future has basically no knowledge of anything.
• This book kind of goes against everything that we find normal in the present.
• Guy has many different and mixed feelings about Clarisse: nervousness, confusion, attraction.
• Clarisse is a strange character. To me she is kind of a random part of the story.

4 questions:

• Why does the author choose the number 451 instead of any other number?
• Does his uniform symbolize anything or is it something that was just thrown together?
• Where dis Clarisse come from?
• What is the deal with Clarisse why is she introduced the way she is, and what is her significance in the book?

3 words:

Nozzle (Bradbury 3): a projecting spout, terminal discharging pipe, or the like, as of a hose or bellows.

Grille (Bradbury 10): a grating or openwork barrier, as for a gate, usually of metal and often of decorative design.

Refracted (Bradbury 11): to alter by viewing through a medium

2 Literary devices:

Personfication: "Whistling, he let the escalator waft him" (Bradbury 4).

Metaphor: "A pink blur..." (Bradbury 9).

1 Summary sentence: In this first section we are introduced to Guy the main character of our story, as a fireman who has a duty to fulfil for the U.S, as well as CLarisse a strange girl, who Guy is attracted to.