Fahrenheit 451-Montag

Montag was a unique character that enjoyed the spontaneous events. He would go for walks outside always being curious of the world around him. He would think of things the city didn't want him to think about and always acted a little different.

I would say Montag's personal role model would be Clarrisse because she always would walk and talk with him, more advanced than he at thinking about stuff. She was always wondering different things and usually would break rules in order to figure out what it was like. Since they both always wondered they were both great role models for each other. When Clarrisse died, Montag had no one to turn to and was very lonesome in the world until he decided to steal some books and run away to save his life with the police. When he killed Betty (his fire marshal) he knew he was going to be punished severely. After being on the run for quite a while he finds a group of men he stops and talks to and eventually becomes friends with. They give him a special drink that gives him a new genetic code so the dog "Hound" cannot sniff him out and kill him. Then they say they were expecting him and are carriers of books too. Unlike Montag they have memorized many parts of them and have them stored in their brains. This is so a book like the bible is completely wiped off the face of the earth they can eventually regroup and write a new copy to be printed and distributed to the communities and people so that religion can be apart of their everyday lives again. I found this very interesting and a unique idea that Bradbury had when it came to finding a way to store books before they were burned if they were burned so that more copies could be made. I liked the idea of thousands of people having to come together in an upraise in order to put the full bible back together.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine, 1953. Print.

Fahrenheit 451- Rating and Reason

For Fahrenheit 451 I would have to give the book a three star rating on a five star scale. The only reason being that I didn't like the style of the futuristic based setting and what not. To me it didn't click like other futuristic based setting books do. This is probably because in this one it isn't a long time from now as some of the other books are, so the author doesn't think of really cool gadgets to put in it for the peoples enjoyment.

For Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury used a futuristic setting with a twist. The twist being that he didn't use a very far off time and use it, but he went just a little farther in time, and based it off of our lives now but with a couple of new things. I think his goal was to make it a laid back community which is cool, but not my favorite. The book was interesting and I was able to read it no problem, but if I could have chosen the setting and time period I would have made it a lot different.

Instead of subways or cars we would just teleport to most of our destinations, instead of wall television sets, I would make it hologram figures walking around in your own house. Even the houses would be decorated different with futuristic furniture and appliances that could work by themselves. The reason being for appliances and all other things in the house, including the house, to clean itself is because I know no one likes doing that chore to this day. I know that whenever my mom ask's me to help her clean something I dread every minute of it and wish that I could invent a robot to do it for me. That brings me to my next idea which is robotic animals and helpers. If you could keep a couple human-like robots in your house you could make them clean the dishes and rub your feet whenever you wanted.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine, 1953. Print.

Fahrenheit 451-Would I Recommend this Book

This book along with Old Man and the Sea were my top two books of the summer reading. For this one I enjoyed the futuristic setting and the mystic style that Ray Bradbury wrote in. Rather than dreading through all of the books I actually enjoyed reading these two.

For the futuristic setting, I have read a couple like this before, but for some reason I didn't like the style of this one. That is probably the only problem I had with the book which is a good thing to say about it. Earlier on in the blogging I stated why I liked the futuristic style and this book didn't have a lot of it. That is probably why I didn't like the style as much. The overall content of the book was very good and I really enjoyed it, but the way the author portrayed it in writing wasn't his best of works.

I haven't read any other books of Ray Bradbury, but I know he has written better only because I saw the potential in this one. By the way everything I have just said is opinionated so to someone else this book could be the bomb and their favorite book and argue that this is the best work of Ray Bradbury, yet others might not like it as much and side with me saying that he could have done better. I think that some authors should write a book, get one hundred test subjects and have those people then read the book and provide input. I think that if you do that and pay each person one hundred bucks you could really make a great book. Of coarse it wouldn't be as fun of a read to those one hundred people off the street because they helped provide ideas, but for everyone else in the world it would be amazing. I also feel that it would pay up for the one hundred dollars you owed the people and increase the revenue by a great margin.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine, 1953. Print.

Fahrenheit 451-Q. 8

Considering that Fahrenheit 451 was written in a futuristic tense, I don't think that there is any history that will match up with it, or at least not now. Many authors around the time that this book was written would write about a futuristic city or state of what life will be like fifty years from now. Some even wrote of a time much farther away than fifty years. Some of them wrote of a lifetime like thousands of years from now. When we are able to fly from place to place and not having to worry about paying for gas because we will use the sun as our infinant source of energy.

Since this takes place in the future we can't even know if during that time the people will be racist, sexist, or anything else. Guessing from previous events in history a long time ago I would guess that it would be a racist and sexist plus some other rules would be changed. Even though my educated guess was very accurate, you can't completely tell til the time comes and you can say for yourself with some good proof to back yourself up.

While answering most of the questions a lot of my answers have been the same of "we cant tell for sure until..." or "I cant relate it to historical events since it hasn't happened yet..." It was things like these that were hard to answer because it was ninety percent guessing and ten percent luck. Again, as i said before this is one of the main reasons I enjoy futuristic based settings and time periods, because you can keep on guessing about what it might be like but you will never truly know until that time comes and you can experience it for yourself and see if you actually were right and got some of our futuristic happenings correct. Although not very likely, that would be extremely cool if you were right about something.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine, 1953. Print.

Fahrenheit 451-Q. 7

This author uses mystery and suspense to connect his readers to the story. Bradbury keeps you always wondering what would happen next and on the edge of your seat with different possibilities and outcomes. The thing I enjoy most is always guessing what he might say about the story or put down and then being wrong and it being something completely different. This happened every time to me. Like in Fahrenheit 451 I always wondered when and where Montag would see Clarissa next and every time I would be wrong. It really struck me odd when the book said she was struck by a car and died. I thought it was horrible that something so quickly could come up out of the blue and take her life away. This was one thing I was able to adapt to my own life easily. Thinking about all of the car accidents that have happened over the years is sad and makes me wonder if its going to get worse as the years go on or if less accidents like this will happen as the years go on.

The other thing Bradbury used was suspense. Suspense is a lot like mystery always wondering what would come next, but more of a temporary thing. An example of suspense is when a demolition team rigs a building with dynamite. You wonder from the time they say "fire in the hole" when it might go off and then it finally does. That feeling before it goes of is suspense unlike mystery which is when you wonder about the story and what will go on next even after you set it down. In the end, there really is not a big difference between the two because they both mean the same thing, and are representing almost the same thing in this story if not the exact same thing. Thanks to these well used techniques I was entertained the entire way through and I really enjoyed this book.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine, 1953. Print.

Fahrenheit 451-Q. 6

The most timeless part about this book is the fact that it is futuristic. Considering that, it wont be history and go out of date, until the date it is set in passes. I also feel that with futuristic novels they are more exciting to readers because they want to know what to expect or to plan to expect within the next fifty or more years.

Take me for instance, as I said before I enjoyed this book because I enjoy books that take place in a futuristic state. I am all for the future and the curve balls it will throw at us. These books make me really geeky and enjoy different cool gadgets that will be invented. When books are written from a future setting I get anxious and can't stop reading. The reason being that I can't wait til the author throws out a really cool idea of a toy or tool that hasn't been invented yet, but sounds likely to be made someday. Even if it isn't likely to be possible to even be made I enjoy imagining things like that.

Saying that this book wasn't hard to pick up and read and I always got hooked on it and couldn't stop reading it. I liked it a lot, but the main reason for new cool gadgets only happened a few times and even those weren't very good. My favorite thought was the invention of a television wall. The fact of being able to invent a four dimensional television is amazing. They will be very exciting if it is possible when invented. It will mean being able to interact with the shows on television! I'm excited about it so much now I want one.

What I have learned from this novel is that you can't always trust what might come in the future because it might not come at all. Or it could change into something completely different like in this book. When I found out and understood that the fire department was created to start fires I immediately thought that this future we might have would be great! Then I read on and found out its not all its cut out to be.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine, 1953. Print.

Fahrenheit 451-Q. 5

Considering that Fahrenheit 451 was written in a futuristic tense, I don't think that there is any history that will match up with it, or at least not now. Many authors around the time that this book was written would write about a futuristic city or state of what life will be like fifty years from now. Some even wrote of a time much farther away than fifty years. Some of them wrote of a lifetime like thousands of years from now. When we are able to fly from place to place and not having to worry about paying for gas because we will use the sun as our infinant source of energy.

I enjoyed this book because I enjoy books that take place in a futuristic state. I am all for the future and the curve balls it will throw at us. These books make me really geeky and enjoy different cool gadgets that will be invented. When books are written from a future setting I get anxious and can't stop reading. The reason being that I can't wait til the author throws out a really cool idea of a toy or tool that hasn't been invented yet, but sounds likely to be made someday. Even if it isn't likely to be possible to even be made I enjoy imagining things like that.

Saying that this book wasn't hard to pick up and read and I always got hooked on it and couldn't stop reading it. I liked it a lot, but the main reason for new cool gadgets only happened a few times and even those weren't very good. My favorite thought was the invention of a television wall. The fact of being able to invent a four dimensional television is amazing. They will be very exciting if it is possible when invented. It will mean being able to interact with the shows on television! I'm excited about it so much now I want one.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine, 1953. Print.