Farhenheit 451
English 2 Honors
05/30/2013
Fahrenheit 451 Final
In this novel, Fahrenheit 451Montag must save all the books he could from burning. Why? Because books are outlawed by the United States. Montag used to be a firefighter who used to burn books. But, he came to reality that he is burning something that’s very knowledgeable. Montags asked his chief Beatty “Why do we burn books”? She replied “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon, Breach one man’s mind” This quote from the books means that is explaining why the people are burning books, When Beatty says “everyone made equal” she means that books provide us knowledge that we use to our advantage. So by this “knowledge” it makes not equal. Making people more educated then another. So the reason they’re destroying the books are because they don’t want the people to be knowledgeable. “The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time . . . Time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt!” In this part of the passage Montag muses on the sun as he escapes the city and floats down the river. This part is found in “Burning Bright”. While Montag was floating the river he admires the stars in the sky because he hasn’t seen the stars in the sky for years. . He also starts considering the moon, which gets its light from the sun, then considers that the sun is akin to time and burns with its own fire. But he came to the conclusion that if the sun isn’t going to stop burning then him and his firemen should.When Guy Montag presents his collection of books to his wife she, "backed away as if suddenly confronted by a pack of mice..." Meaning that Montags wife was frightened the see Guy with all those
05/30/2013
Fahrenheit 451 Final
In this novel, Fahrenheit 451Montag must save all the books he could from burning. Why? Because books are outlawed by the United States. Montag used to be a firefighter who used to burn books. But, he came to reality that he is burning something that’s very knowledgeable. Montags asked his chief Beatty “Why do we burn books”? She replied “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon, Breach one man’s mind” This quote from the books means that is explaining why the people are burning books, When Beatty says “everyone made equal” she means that books provide us knowledge that we use to our advantage. So by this “knowledge” it makes not equal. Making people more educated then another. So the reason they’re destroying the books are because they don’t want the people to be knowledgeable. “The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time . . . Time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt!” In this part of the passage Montag muses on the sun as he escapes the city and floats down the river. This part is found in “Burning Bright”. While Montag was floating the river he admires the stars in the sky because he hasn’t seen the stars in the sky for years. . He also starts considering the moon, which gets its light from the sun, then considers that the sun is akin to time and burns with its own fire. But he came to the conclusion that if the sun isn’t going to stop burning then him and his firemen should.When Guy Montag presents his collection of books to his wife she, "backed away as if suddenly confronted by a pack of mice..." Meaning that Montags wife was frightened the see Guy with all those