A STEP AHEAD OF THE HOUND

1. Montag hid the books he had in the kitchen of the Blacks' house.
2. Faber described the war as remote. While Montag and Faber have their problems, the world has a bigger problem going on.
3. Fabers lifted up a frame for a picture and a TV came up. It was the size of a postal card.
4. While Montag was on the run, the TV showed helicopters and a new mechanical hound looking for him.
5. Montag was running for the river so he can put on Faber's old clothes and float away.

THE CHASE IS ON

1. The Hound attacked Montag because he is wanted for keeping books and now is wanted for the murder of Beatty.
2. Montag defended himself by pulling the trigger on the flame thrower and burned the hound.
3. Montag realized that Beatty wanted to die. Beatty didn't try to save himself. Instead, he just stood there with a big grin on his face and tried to make Montag mad.
4. Montag ran in the far end of the alley and decided he should go see Faber.
5.When walking across the street, Montag was trying to get away from the beetle and kids from 12-16 that almost killed him. He even wondered if those kids where the people who killed Clarisse.

Music in F451?

So I was just thinking about how the government in the book kind of controls society to not think for themselves thus banning books and establishing a different way to teach at schools. They also have shows on TV that would normally entertain a child and they don't have much intellectual value. Mildred, like others in that society, constantly have their "seashells" (aka headphones) in their ears and would distract themselves with music as well. So my question is, do those kind of societies filter or control the music the people listen to? A lot of songs have meaning and can tell stories so I was just wondering do the people in the book listen to only what the government puts out? Did they destroy all of the songs that had meaning when they started destroying books? Or can they listen to anything and it won't matter because they can't think for themselves anyway? Can people, like how Mildred does with her parlors, spontaneously step in a recording studio and try to make a song or can being a musician still be a profession? Just some things I was wondering.

Part 3 F451

I actually left off in the middle of part 3. Maybe because I'm a fast reader or I was just really curious or both but all I have to say is WOAH. I know I read this yesterday, but I'm not over the fact what just happened. There's so much to think about. I now have no idea where the book is going to end or what's going to happen next. A few questions I had where: Why do the kids kill each other? You would think they would be distracted by technology as well, but instead they attack whoever gets in their way. Is the whole country like this? I mean does every town in the country have firemen and fire station that burns books and have a society who is so against them? If that's the case, where is Montag going to go? If the whole country is like that, he's basically screwed. At the same time, how can he be screwed? There's so much of the book left over. I'm just going to put this out there: I don't care what happens to Mildred. I hate her with a passion. Will Montag find Clarisse? Will he try to get Faber to escape with him? Is the war going to become a bigger part in this book? Will the war stop these kinds of societies or is everything going to stay the same?
I really can't wait to find out what's going on.(:

Answers to Part Two Questions

1. Montag's reaction to books was that he was fascinated by them. He thinks they could have the answers to all the questions he has. For example, what happened to Clarisse and maybe even why there is a war.
Mildred, on the other hand, is far more interested in TV programs than reading books. She doesn't like to use her imagination to envision people and things because she rather have other people do that thinking for her. She is also afraid that Captain Beatty might find out and burn the house and most importantly to her, their "investments"(aka the parlor).

2. The effects of the bombs flying over show that there is an outside conflict too: war. Montag first realized this when he started to question is happiness and now when he's confessing to Mildred that he is not happy. It proves that everyone in the country is so busy being distracted and finding happiness in technology that they don't even realize that their country is at war. In section two, it motivates Montag to look for answers about why there might be a war in books.

3. Professor Faber used to be an English Professor but stopped after the college shut down due to the lack of people applying. Montag decides to pay him a visit because he wants to understand what he's reading.

4. Montag's reaction in the subway is him having a fight with himself mentally and deciding on weather he should continue his life in that dull society, which means forgetting about books, or read books and break the rules so that maybe he can find some answers (maybe even happiness).

5. Faber's argument is that the things that you learn from books could be applied to your life. He first says that books have quality and make you reflect on your life. Then he says books need people to take their time when reading them and interpret what they read(make meaning out of it). The last thing he tells Montag about books is that people need to apply what they have learned from books in their own life.

6. The small green object is an invention that Faber created. I like to think of it as walkie talkie. It's basically just a two way radio that he made to look like seashells( which is Bradbury's version of headphones) so no one would be suspicious.

7. Well clowns are usually associated with the amusement of little children and since grown adults in this society find them entertaining as well, this leads me to think that they aren't very (how do I put this in a nice way?🤔)...very educated or mature,

8. Mrs. Phelps cries when Montag read "Dover Beach" because just as their society, Mrs.Phelps had nothing to make her think for herself and as she interpreted what Montag was reading, she was reflecting on her own life.

9. Montag returns to the fire station because he thinks he is a real risk taker but Beatty had happened to find out he had books.

Aren't we all kids?

Saw Beauty and The Beast today and it was AMAZING! It's exactly like the animated one. And as a huge Emma Watson fan, I was excited to see her performance in this film. 10/10 I recommend.

Rant:My sister went in the group chat I have with my cousin, who saw the movie too, and mentioned how she was "reliving her childhood." My sister is only twelve so my cousin responded with, "But Jackie, you're still a kid." I chimed in with, "everyone in this chat are kids." That's when an argument sprouted. "I'm eighteen so technically I'm an adult," said one of my cousins. Well legally she is an adult but I would still consider her as a kid. Her only evidence was "now I can say back in my day". Literally everyone can reflect on their life's experiences and say that! I go on to say that her life's just beginning and that's when she got mad. Plus, my main point was I don't think anyone truly grows up. Aren't we all kids at heart? I'd say it's a pretty boring life to expect yourself for acting like a full grown up at that age. I just wanted to say "enjoy being young and have fun! You won't be young forever." but of course she said, "I have a right to my opinion" and ignored me. I hate how that sentence ends the search for truth.

Anyways felt like ranting about something but I had no one to rant to haha. Cx Also wanted to share my love for this movie. Find your inner child. x

15 answers to the questions about F451

1. The book starts off with Montag burning books because that's the time were he is happy and feels like is doing something productive for society. I think it is pleasurable for him because books are viewed as dangerous to all of society and his job is sort of saving society from that danger. Since he is doing that, he has a sense of purpose for helping the lives of many and he gets to be the destroyer of something bad.
2. I think books are compared to as birds in the opening scene is because birds are living beings that can feel pain and torture. Montag feels like he is torturing the books for being dangerous and that sort of gives him pleasure.
3. Clarisse is very talkative and curious about everything which is why she likes to ask a lot of questions. She does things outside the norm to the society she lives in. She doesn't go to school but stays home and enjoys nature. She comes home and has fun talking to her loving family while there is no technology in sight. She lives a very colorful life.
    Montag is the complete opposite of Clarisse. Montag goes to work and doesn't question anything.      He comes home to his wife who ignores him and didn't question if he loved her until after he met        Clarisse. He rarely talks to anyone due to the fact everyone he knows is distracted by technology.
   He lives a very dull life.
4. Technology has negatively impacted the lives of Montag and Mildred. Due to Mildred being obsessed with television\"the plays" and the seashells, she's being distracted and doesn't pay attention to anything or anyone around her. This affects her marriage with Montag because they don't have proper conversations with each other and she is looking for happiness in distraction.
5. The author choose to introduce us to Montag when he meets Clarisse because Clarisse's different personality opened the eyes of Montag and made him realize that he isn't happy with himself, he isn't in love, and things don't have to be the way they are. Bradbury is showing us how Clarisse influenced Montag to make some changes to his life. The reason why he shows us Mildred's overdose is because he is showing us what the society in the book is like. They look for happiness in the wrong things but still expect to find it. When they don't find it, they overdose.
6. Clarisse is introduced first because he first shows us how good a connection Clarisse can make with people. The he shows us Mildred, who is the complete opposite and is like everyone else in that society.
7. All the houses are fire proof because if firemen find books in a house they'll burn it, it'll burn for a few days and then the house will look like brand new.
8. Mildred requires emergency service because she overdosed on sleeping pills and she could barley breath when Montag found her. The service provided weren't doctors but technicians. They use a thing called a "special snake" to pump the stomachs of people who overdose.
9. The mechanical hound is a robot that has form\look like a dog and is programmed to stick a needle and kill whomever is breaking the law.
10. The society consider Clarisse as "antisocial" because she does not conform to what society wants her to be. She doesn't use technology, loves to interact with people, and likes to explore nature. She is the opposite of everyone else.
11. The woman lights the match because she is willing to die with her books however, Montag is nagging her to not to and the captain didn't think she'd do it. She believed in what she did.
12. Montag and Mildred's relationship is very rocky. Montag doesn't love Mildred. Mildred uses Montag as a wallet. They don't have proper conversations because Mildred doesn't like to be bothered when using technology(so all the time). It's like two strangers are living in the same house.
13. Beatty visits Montag because he can sense that Montag is starting to question his job and the "dangers" of books. (I put quotes around dangers because to me, it seems like that society sees books as something dangerous or evil.)
14. Beatty thinks school is useless if they don't teach people how to have fun and basic skills to sustain their lives. Teaching them academic stuff makes people "unhappy". The majority would just rather be entertained than learn. So basically Beatty thinks teaching kids academics causes people to feel discomfort and can make people feel like they're not smart.
I agree with Beatty on the part where he thinks regular school, like this high school, can give discomfort. Only because we are so focused on getting good grades and if we don't get them, we feel like maybe we aren't intellectual. However, I disagree with him on how school should be. School isn't for being entertained. Yes, school can be entertaining and you can still have fun but only if it all relates to learning about important things. Beatty doesn't want much learning to happen in schools.
15. Montag "feels fat" because of  his guilt of hiding books and starting to have different views the society has is weighing him down. Montag's conflicting thoughts on society's norms are piling up on top of each other and making him feel like he is gaining weight mentally.

Thinking Out Loud: Pg.52 of F451

*contains spoilers*
I'm currently on page 52 and it is so tempting to go finish the book. There are a few things that make me curious like, why do firemen start fires and why is it their job to burn places that have books? Why is the government lying to them about the history of firemen?
And the most important question..... WHY ARE BOOKS ILLEGAL?! Will people find out Montag has books? Does Clarisse have books?
I absolutely love Clarisse's personality. I admire her child like character, as Emerson would say, she isn't afraid to ask questions and doesn't conform to what everyone else is doing. She likes to run around and be free. Her peers are dull due to obsession with technology and apparently "kill each other"?
So does Clarisse really get run over by a car or did her and her family disappear because they are different than everyone else? Clarisse is perfectly normal and so is her family yet she has a psychiatrist. Maybe the government took a look at this city and saw how everyone was doing what they want them to do..... except for one family. Now they're gone. Just how in The Pedestrian, Leonard Mead was forced to go in the police car because he was doing something that wasn't the norm.
Clarisse:

The Pedestrians

My dad got home from work and I felt like going for a walk to get fresh air. Observation: We probably saw two people outside on our walk around the neighborhood. I also asked my dad if he read Fahrenheit 45, knowing he would he has because one of the classes he taught before was English. He said that it's an amazing book and he liked the style of how Ray Bradbury wrote. Plus he offered me to borrow a copy of the book if I needed it. I then asked him if he had read The Pedestrian. He didn't. Long story short: I summarized The Pedestrian whilst being Pedestrians. haha (:

Reflection of today's discussion about Fahrenheit 451

What I learned(may contain spoilers because I love reading ahead.. ooooppps😅):
 Montag wears a smile on his face when burning things down because that is what makes him happy. However, he cannot start fires all day so he had gotten used to coming home only to be ignored by his wife who has ear buds on all the time and by everyone else in town who are huddled around TV screens and technology(Clarisse and her family being the only exception). Everyone is distracted by technology and Montag didn't even realize it until after he met Clarisse. He notices her family actually talks to each other and are happy because of the loving connection they have and he really wants to be apart of it. They have a sense of belonging. So when he comes home after that walk with Clarisse, he already acknowledges how unhappy he is only to find his wife on the floor of the bedroom because she overdosed. The reason why she does this is because she was looking for happiness by getting distracted with technology. She doesn't know what she really needs is human interaction and it gets me frustrated how the conversation she had with her husband after the sleeping pill incident was that she wanted a new television..... A NEW TELEVISION!!!!!! That's what got her in this mess in the first place! How is she going to find happiness by being distracted? No wonder why Montag took a sleeping tablet.... Now I'm wondering if Montag actually loves or even likes his wife. Does Clarisse coming into his life change everything? It already seemed to have made him realize something with that million dollar question which was, "Are you happy"?


Or maybe Montag is not happy because he burns down all the happiness and magicalness books bring.

Explaining my attempt at writing a modernist poem

After spending a lot of time looking up what modernism was, I still wasn't satisfied enough to write a short story. I absolutely love poetry and saw that there was pretty good modernist poems out there. I really enjoy Edgar Allan Poe's poetry and through today's research, I found he was a modernist. That inspired me to give a try at writing a poem instead of a poem.
So what I found about modernism:
Modernists write self-consciously or from the inner self. Since they were writing from a stream of consciousness, they would use symbols and imagery to represent what they felt. Instead of seeing progress in the world, modernist saw no change or even it getting worse.
For example, in the Great Gatsby the author used the eyes as a symbol of God looking down upon American society and how things have only gone worse.
Another example is in The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, where he begins with an epilogue of him being in hell and how he feels like his life on Earth is hell. Or him wanting to be a pear of ragged claws in an empty sea so he can feel like no one is judging him.

So when I sat to write my poem, I wrote from a stream of consciousness. Whatever feelings I had built up and passed through my mind, I wrote down.
As imagery, I wrote that there were no colors in the world. I feel like that made everything dark and gloomy. Kind of a down feeling, but that's what I was striving for.
The dark clouds where a symbol for negative thoughts that are impossible to get rid of and feeling cold/numb all the time.
I choose the character to be a butterfly because butterflies are already weak as it is so having to fly in the rain is kind of making her weaker.
Time yelling at her ear is the feeling of wanting to do something before time runs out but not being able to do it because the dark clouds are weighing her down.
Lastly the predator and prey bit was about how the butterfly thought every living being that laid eyes on her were predators who wish to prey on her because she is so weak. This means that she feels constantly judged, no matter how much she tries not to feel that way because the dark clouds are pouring water down, thus making her weaker and forcing her to not know what to do.

Dark Clouds (My attempt at a modernist poem)

Dark clouds hang over her head
She sees the world in black and white
And how it really is, cold and dark
like the clouds following her every where she goes

Evening is when it's the loudest for her
Time is yelling at her ear, telling her she should do something
Yet she is a butterfly, too weak to fly
while the dark clouds are pouring down

She always continued flying in search for something she doesn't know
Through all the people she thinks are predators
Because she feels like everyone is constantly judging her like she's the prey
And all those empty thoughts the black clouds are bringing her, she cannot escape.

There is comfort in having a deadline
And everyone would cease to exist one day
because the cold world is not fair,
at least that's what the dark clouds say.

WHAT I SEE IN LITERATURE

Imagery in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock:

"I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas."

That quote makes me imagine a crab running around an empty ocean floor. This applies to the theme because earlier, the poet mentioned a few times that he feels that people judge him and he still doesn't know what to do with life. This way as a crab, he doesn't have to decide on doing anything with his life. The "floors of silent seas" implies that there is no other living being insight so therefore he can not be judged for anything. 

"By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown. Till human voices wake us, and we drown." 

Here he proves again that he doesn't like to be with people. This is because he feels that everyone stares at him and judges him. So whenever he hears a human, he feels like he is drowning on the inside. And as the epilogues says, he is in hell. That too I think is imagery because he's not talking about the actual place, he is talking about how life on Earth feels like hell to him because he's full of people who judge him for being indecisive and then there's the feeling that he's wasting his life away. But, he has been thinking so long about doing something for so long before he actually does it so he fears that it might be too late and his deadline is coming soon. All of those thoughts, make him feel like he is in hell.
The Great Gatsby:
"The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are always watching, and so are the eyes of God."
Here I can picture the billboard which contains two giant eyes that is advertising for the eyed doctor. I can also imagine God looking down at Earth(America specifically) and judging the new culture. This ties in with the theme of the novel because at that point in history, most of society stopped living with morals and virtues. We see that in the novel when people constantly attend parties(even when they weren't invited) , by people constantly wanting new things, braking prohibition, and everyone is obsessed with thinking about themselves. No one rich was helping the needy in The Valley of the Ashes.

CAN WE WATCH THE MOVIE?!

Books vs. Movies. An argument that never dies.........
but obviously, the books are better 99.9% better. When you read books, you get to be the director to the movie is playing inside your head. I think as you get older, it is harder to have an active imagination and reading books enables you to create a whole new world, using someone's description, inside of your head. I can't explain how mind blowing that is to me.
So maybe you're not a fan of reading because maybe it's time consuming or you just think it's boring. Well you have NO IDEA how much things you're missing when you watch the movies instead of reading the books. I think it's kind of clear that I'm a Harry Potter fan and I guess you could call me an expert. I saw the first movie on Disney Channel when I was 5 and remembered liking it. Later on when I was in fourth grade, I read all the books and then stared watching the movies afterwards. I love the movies. They are my absolutely favorite movies of all time. (Going to be watching the marathon on Freeform as always😅 ) I found that I liked how the characters looked like better than how I imagined them. They did a fantastic job in casting. However, even as a 10 year old I knew how much things they left out and did differently/wrong. I can make an ongoing list on what wasn't there and how unsatisfying it feels that the movies left out some of those things. Even if they did make the movies exactly following every word of the books, there would still be tons of detail left out. I reread the Harry Potter series very often because it is like escaping this world and magically apparating into another one for a while.(puns intended(; ) And every time I reread one of the books, I somehow always find something new that I missed the first few times and makes me even more fascinated in that world. On to today's movie. Daisy seems more enthusiastic in the movie than the book but that doesn't really bother me, Jordan and Nick didn't talk as much as they did in the book, and for some reason, Tom isn't as snobby to me. So do I like the book better than the movie? Well we haven't seen Gatsby yet, but I like the book better. I liked the little movie I created in my head better than the actual movie. I feel like it was more true to the novel because nothing was over exaggerated. The actual movie is someone else's version of the novel and it is kind of like I'm being told I have been wrong the whole time.