wow....this was the gayest book i've ever read..i've no clue what the ending was all about..so now he meets with some people who apparently are nerds and decide to form some sort of a club..and all they talk about is books and writers...so as they leave the city, the city gets flattened by a bomb...this is all i get from the ending...in the end, these nerds ended up smarter than the other people because they are the only ones saved...i think the writer was on crack when he was writing this book or under the influence of some kind of drug because the ending is stupid and non-understandable...the book should have been named the victory of the nerds rather than farenheight 451...in the end, there is no final conclusion to the story...the city just blows up....overall, the book was pretty boring and the boringness intensified as the book went on..

so now montag ends up watching his own house burn..and montag holds the flame shooter and kills beatty and other fire assistants along with the hound..i think the writer tried too hard to make montag look as the protagnist..he could have let montag being arrested because ofcourse one person fighting so many people mkaes it more unrealistic. this part of the story tells us that montag is very generous as he leaves faber's house so that faber does not fall into trouble..now he jumps into a river so that the hound loses his trail. first of all, the writer makes it clear that this world is so technoligically advance, i wonder why they haven't developed a hound which can work both in water and on land. secondly, even dogs can track people even if they go through a river, so i wonder why the heck would these people not use dogs...i am happy that i am almost done with this book..

all of a sudden, montag decides to open up about his book secret and leaks the secret to Millie which means that his love with books is no longer just a curiosity but a full time hobby..i would say it was a little crazy of montag to reveal his big book secret in front of the his wife's friends when he knew he could be in deep trouble..i think at this point montag's gone a little crazy and gone a bit too overboard with his new found love.wow, and the mechanichal hound is off to his house..looks like someone would get their ass kicked...all in all, the strongest charachter in the story seems to be clarisse who has influenced guy so much that he is ready to pursue his love for books than think about his well being...

wow....this is more boring than I thought it was....thanks guys for revealing the ending, you spoiled the whole fun of reading the book..haha just kidding, its bored the crap out of me anyways....this world seems more crazier than I thought...so now Millie, who had too much sleeping pills last night gets up next morning not remembering anything....its just like when you smoke weed, you don't remember anything and it takes over you...not that I've tried it...montag's wife is getting more stupid by every page...i can imagine her forgetting the pill one time but having an overdose of about 40 pills due to not remembering, it seems like she needs some medical help...when the mechanical hound growled at montag, it should have been a clear signal that montag had something to hide about. this shows that people were blindly supported and trusted by the society based on their profession. peoples perception was that a fireman cannot be a person hiding books as it is morally against his profession. i think people in this world are not allowed to have any imagination and cannot work against the supreme power(the government). this sounds like communism. the framework of the society is more or less like china. montag is kinda attracted to Clarisse since the book refers to him looking forward to meeting Clarisse. . .i guess clarisse is dead. her death is almost ignored and is not given the adequate attention the writer should have given..montag seems kinda disturbed but is in a state when you are so shocked that you feel like ignnoring the incident and pretend it never happened. then when montag responds to the call, he steals a book which kinda proves that clarisse has influenced montag's behavior. I am not too sure about the woman burning herself for books...i mean one would have to be really passionate about something that they can die for and books somehow doesen't strike as things to die for. although, i think the books have been used as a symbol to represent freedom....the relationship of guy and his wife doesen't seem very stable since guy hides the secret of the stolen books from his wife...

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K, I think I just figured out why he doesn't have any kids. His wife is nuts, why would he want to bring a child into that household? Also, he killed Beatty, I can't believe he killed Beatty and the book isn't even over yet. Where is he going to go after he burnt down his damn house? Also, is he going to get caught, there is a lot of information out on the fact that the authorities are looking for him. When he freaked out at Millie's crazy lady friends, it was a side of Montag I'd have never expected. I'm so excited to find out what happens!

The author ended the book to fast. So pretty much a bomb got dropped and the town he use to live in has been vanquished. All his problems are left behind and he has no purpose then to live and remember books. I dont like how the author made everthing go so smoothly at the end. Like would you really trust a bunch of bums sitting around a campfire. They offered him a drink and he just gulped it with no problem, if it was for me i would have suspicion that the drink was poisoned or something. Oh yea when they ate bacon i really would not eat some random piece of bacon from a bum like i was wondering how long could he have carried that piece for, but thats me.
Faber's agreement with meeting up with Montag didnt conclude. Did he die or did he meet up with Montag in St. Louis after the end of the book. I dislike how the author made it so we have to use our imagination to predict what happens afterwords.

I liked how the author made the book so unpredictable. But I dislike how he used too many unexplainable events in the book to lead to the end. Like Clarisse, she was in the book but suddenly she goes missing with no explination. And the moment where Montag had to flee from the car, what was that all about really... did Mildred die after Montag escaped from the pursuit? Did Faber die too? Where did all the bums come from to meet up with Montag? The author had so many loose ends that needed to be tied.

I cant beleive i am reading this book but since it was the smallest book available, i chose it....anyways, in the beginning, there are a lot of symbols chosen like the number 451 which represents the temprature at which a paper ignites..the book is kinda boring in the beginning, and I still have to read more than half a book...that sucks...the writer has tried to add some humor to the book, like the kerosine joke...it felt like Clarissa(the chick he meets) is from the FBI and she is investigating Montag. why in this world would she ask montag(who is a complete stranger to clarissa) in the middle of a night if he burns the book he reads? the conversation is something that you would not have with a person you have met for the first time...but then the writer is trying to give us an impression of a futuristic period where the society is diffrent than todays...calling 911 and getting a handymen to get you fixed sounds kinda stupid and the world seems more "machine-centred" and there seems to be no human skills involved...i would probably get scared if I see a handymen fixing me up during an emergency...

I think the book ended off a little bit too quickly. I agree with Lindsay when she says its a very difficult book to understand. But i think in the end Montag finally discovers what his purpose in life is and even though he lost everyone in his life that mattered to him, he seems fufilled. Everyone serves their purpose and his is to share his knowledge to others to keep the books alive. After running so hard from the mechanical hound he discovers that he is a very important piece in keeping history alive. I thought the book was very interesting and although it had a couple of confusing parts, it kept my attention througout the whole thing.

I am now done the book and the ending is kind of dumb and confusing. To me the chase seemed to drag on a long time and kind of got boring. I found it really interesting when the news people and the policeman faked catching Montag, and how the men around the fire knew they were going to do that. Did they just do this to please the public? Are they actually just going to give up searching for him? Also when Millie just decides to abandon her husband when he is in such a tough situation is kind of selfish, even though she may not agree with what he is doing. It seems she finally realizes how unhappy she was throughout the whole novel and decides to leave Montag. I thought that Montag and Faber's way of covering themselves up and trying to get away were very smart. How Montag wore Faber's old clothes and floated down the river to cover up his smell from the mechanical hound was pretty smart. The men around the fire seem kind of odd to me. Do they just live in the middle of nowhere? Although it is kind of neat though how they are all knowledgable in different things and how they all somewhat represent different people or things.

I found this book very different compared to other books I have read in the past. It was very descriptive and tried to convey a complex circumstance in a short amount of time. It was also very interesting in the way it was so descriptive and painted a detailed picture in my mind. It may also be that I haven't read a book or finished one since grade 7. I never expected it to end the way it did, but even in the end it still reminded me of the USSR. The way they faked the death to end curiousity of the citizens and make it seem like they never fail to keep everyone in fear. What was very unusual about the guys at the fire was that they share the stories with people, but if mostly everyone is in the city how much do they get to tell the stories and share their knowledge. When the rest of the gentlemen revealed they were firefighters, I found it kind of ironic. All of them used to burn the books, that they know live by. I thought this book was really confusing in some parts and it was a chore to read, but after the end of the second part and the start of the third I started enjoying the suspense the author built it and thought it was an alright book at the end.

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This book is really hard to figure out, you have to look so deep into it to really appreciate what it is saying. But I love it. It's so interesting and out there. I've reached the part where Montag begins reading the books and planning revenge with the professor. It seems as thought the book is going to get so climactic. In response to what Ms. Mapp said, I think the government may have done something terrible and needs to take control of their people so they don't figure it out. I don't know though.
Part of me also feels like Clarisse may come back. I know she's dead but she's a smart girl. What if she somehow escaped? I could be wrong. Part of me feels as though it definitely wasn't time in the book for her to die. It's like she has unfinished business, so much more to teach Guy.
Montag's wife is getting more and more annoying as a character every page. She is just someone I would never like to have around in my own life. I'm not exactly sure why they're still with each other. It seems as though they do not love each other, and they almost can't stand each other. The woman is a psychopath. Addicted to painkillers and sleep medication. She isn't very prime material. Guy would fit better with someone who kept him on his feet, like Clarisse. Obviously she's young and possibly dead, but they just seemed like they were supposed to be together.
Also, why doesn't Montag and Millie have any kids?

-Lindsay

To respond to Katelyn's post about not understanding the book burning: to me the government is trying to do what all governments d0: stay in power. And they have found a way of doing this that does not require extreme violence or mass executions, by keeping the population complacent. Distract them, entertain them, medicate them so that the government's choices and decisions are never questioned. Almost all the people in this society are complacent, "happy" with the status quo.

Books are bad (in the government's eyes) because they encourage questioning, thinking more deeply, multiple perspectives. In other words, books would make people dissatisfied and desirous of change. And so, they burn. IMHO, anyway.

Yea I agree with Jamie Montag does put a lot of hope into Faber even though he doesn’t know him that well. But then again Montag really has nobody else he can trust especially at a time like this. Montag kept going down the tracks and eventually runs into a bunch of other fugitives that gave him coffee and took him in. In my personal opinion Montag is really not that independent he counts too much on other people to survive. What I don’t understand is that the chase on T.V. with Montag was a lie. They showed that they caught him but really he got away. I dislike how the author made Montag escape so easily in such a strict society that won’t even allow one book to exist.

I feel that this part of the book is somewhat confusing. The Parlor has confused me the most i'm not sure what it is, i feel somewhat that it is a t.v. And the character that is still confusing and hard to get is Montag's Wife she seems like a very uptight person who tends to keep to herself. She does talk to her family though but she continues to maintain a mysterious personality. This is not the only situation that is confusing, considering the fact that Montag has books in his house and his job is to start fires and burn books. The situation where he meets Faber really suprises us, and also how they stick together and make these plans. In those days an situation like this where they met randomly and got so close so quick were very hard to comeby and very rare.

I was kind of worried for Montag when he ended up in barn, it seemed as if he could stay there for ever and someone knew he was there but never tried to see who it was, or did they know who it was? The old men standing around a fire in a field was random, but after the book finished and they explained the point of it, I thought it was a neat gathering idea. When i was doing my hyperlink project, I came across this article that actually states that Bradbury relates another book to the USSR and also a movement in this time period in the US by a senator. It was pointing out that Bradbury took the idea and was exaggerating the simplicity of her motion. I'm wondering if the senator realized what Bradbury's point is, or if she even read the book. I'm guessing she could have taken offence to the points that he clearly makes against her. Personally i thought this book overall was too confusing and he may have been trying to prove his point more than tie the situations of the story together.

Now that Montag has burned Beatty, he seems even more depressed. I don't really understand where he is running to and how he possibly thinks hes going to get away with murder like that. Faber seems to old to be hiding a hostage for more than 5 minutes, and i still don't understand what they are trying to accomplish with the books and burning other firemen. Maybe they are just trying to bring back a little bit of the old culture. And i understand why Mildred left him, because she was so different and they didn't really seem to have much of a relationship left anyways. He lost his job, his wife and killed his boss within a matter of minutes and now has to figure out what he wants out of his life before its too late.

It seems kind of weird to me that montag can put so much trust into Faber, someone he doesnt even really know. I'm not even really sure what Montag and Faber's goal really is? is it just to educate everyone about books? This world is still very weird to me like how they have a mechanical hound. I also don't really understand why books are forbidden in this world. Montag must really want to accomlish his goal because in the process of achieving it he lost his wife, his job and killed his boss. I like how Montag is on the run now it makes the plot more interesting. I also think that because Montag was a firefighter and knows how the mechanical hound works it is easier for him to run from it. I don't really know how the story is going to end, it must be something unpredictable.