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.