Really Getting Into It

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.