Fahrenheit 451 (Independent Reading Assignment)
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- "There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing." P.45
- "[Firemen] were given a new job, as custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior; official censors, judges, and executors." P.47
- "We never burned right..."P.97
- "And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling, gibbering mannikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him." P.98
- "Hand it over, Guy,"P.97
- Montag encounters the main conflict after he truly realizes how much people either hate books or love them, so much to take them to the grave with them, like the lady that Montag saw do this exact thing. So he went to his boss, Captain Beatty, to truly ask the true meaning of a firefighter's job, and how it ever came to burning up all the books they found. Portraying it as an honorable duty to protect the people of it's so called horrors. Yet, this is where Montag learns that there is more to his happiness, to the happiness of the people and secret, valuable knowledge hidden within the books, which are being censored out of existence.
- "Once the bomb release was yanked, it was finished." P.141
- Montag finally confronts his main enemy and foe, who has been hunting him down. Now seeing that the tables have turned, and he is now the one that's about to be burned alive by Montag. Begging him to give it to him and not to carry on, yet Montag carries out his action, proclaiming that they have burned the books wrongfully. Lighting fire on Beatty,signifying that he is the first thing that he has properly ever burned. Finally elminating the leader of censorship for once and for all.
- "There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up... But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again." P.163
- "To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence, and a time to speak... And on either side of the river was there a tree of life... And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations" P.164
- After fleeing the city in search for a place of refuge, along with the main person who inspired him from the beginning to rebel and to carry out the whole plan, was the retired english professor Faber. Where they both witnessed their city get destroyed by a deadly atomic bomb, crashing onto the city and blowing it up to ashes.The bomb acting as a symbol within the story of new hope. All of this because of ongoing wars that were happening,and the lack of preparation being because of the heavy censorship and lack of history or knowledge.Leaving them all in shock,laying witness to the atrocity.
- At the site, they rescue and recover as many people as they can,. Bringing them back to a place where people already rebelled and favor books and their teachings. Giving all of them a fresh start in order to be able to share the knowledge within books and their major importance. As Faber describes the situation through the metaphor of a phoenix, illustrating the city that would kill itself and be reborn., repeating the cycle every 100 years. Comparing that and putting a message on humankind to which Montag has an answer precisely from his memorized readings. To share, spread and grow knowledge together as that is the only way to eliminate censorship , truly heal humanity, and pave the way to true, honest sucess.
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