Well i read some of the blogs and Tyler has told us that Montag likes to count a lot. We all know that Montag is normal hes just a little depressed and confused with the world he lives in. I like how the author used some situational irony and made Montag seem crazy to the society for burning Captian Beatty. It built up a lot of excitment and mystery in the book. I almost could not put the book down! Faber seems the have lots of knowledge on books but he is old and seems afraid to do something to bring books back into the world. But after he met Montag his youth came back to him and he has a will to help Montag in restoring books into the society. What made me confused was when Montag got chased by the vehicle that tried to hit him. I dont understand the whole point of that part. At this point it showed Montag's paraniod side cause he thought it was that car that killed Clarisse.

Montag never really seems happy. He's unhappy with his wife, unhappy with his job, his society basically his whole life. He realizes there is something wrong with his society's way of life, and that the problem is not being able to read books. It actually kinda reminds me of the matrix. People live a drone like life and dont really know whats going on, exept for a few people, like the people in zion or the people who read. The firemen remind me of the agents, who's job is to seek out and terminate the "rebels". Montag is like an agent turned rebel, he realizes something is wrong and goes about trying to find out what it is while still working as a fireman.

Faber is an old man who knows he is too old to deal with the current issues with books and the law but the hope in Montag's eyes gives him willingness to help him escape. You could tell Beatty was under the influence of the government when he was giving Montag his final chance to overcome and hate the books again, but i'm guessing he could see past and hear the false accusations he was trying to state. Especially when he entered the firehouse the way Bradbury described it he was weary and kinda second guessing his plan and coming back. The more the book goes on it keeps reminding me of the USSR. You can tell the author is trying to forsee the future with his ideas like the parlor, hound and some of the other non-real items he has described. Montag still seems like he cared more about Clarisse than his wife in the way that he can't help bu think about her, and the way he talks of her. Does Millie really love and care about Montag? If she does why would she tell on him, and let her friends do the same, so that he is in danger with the government, and their house can get burnt down? And Montag killed?

Just At The Beginning

I just recently started the book so I'm a little late on blogging. I'm going to do this blog on the first 10% of the book.

I think it's very interesting that the book is set in the future and is very odd. The way things are in this time frame is confusing and yet a part of you knows that that is how things could turn out. Who knows what the future hold? However, it somehow feels like the characters in the book are controlled by the government. Almost like the USSR.
People (except for Clarisse's uncle) seem to completely deny the past or they've been taught differently. Part of me believes that maybe they're burning the books so that no one will remember what the past held. Like they're erasing history.
I believe Clarrise's uncle may become a pretty crucial character. He seems to be very wise and knowledgable.
Part of me also feels like there is a strange romance blossoming between Clarisse and Guy Montag. It's almost inappropriate but at the same time you see that Guy is unhappy with his wife and you want him to be happy.

Also, as an added note:
The symbols on the firemens uniforms (like the pheonix-who rises from the ashes) may become a crucial part of the book. That or I'm just looking to far into it.

-Lindsay

Just a reminder, guys. You don't have to recap what happened - others are reading it. Bring your questions, complaints, impressions, personal connections to the table.

I imagine the Parlour to be like whole-wall TV screens with the Family being interactive CGI "actors" whom the wife speaks to and hears responses from (through voice-recognition technology, computers, etc.). Of course, the wife would rather interact with this simplified, superficial version of life than deal with real life.

Well I got quite a ways through the book and I find that Montag is living in a very unsatisfying society. The book has a very confusing begining. Montag has a job as a fireman but he doesn’t understand why he has to burn the books. He met an interesting girl named Clarisse McClellan and they talk about each other. The girl he met talks Montag into questioning the world and he finds himself unsatisfied the way he is living. Hes living with a wife that seems kind of insane and has absolutely no interest in him. After a foolish night at his house Montag reads the book and makes one of his wife's friend cry. Montag realizes that he has caused himself a great deal of trouble and is deceived by his cunning captain into burning his own house down. He has no place to go other than to run away and maybe seek guidance from Faber. Montag has nothing left now and he is known to everyone as a psycho that reads books. I dont know but I see that Montag has put himself in a bad situation but maybe thing will go his way in teh end.

I think that Montag feels very out of the loop. Since that one day when he burned the lady with so many books, he has been thinking deeply about why she would give up her life to hold on to them. Hes thinking that the void in his life will be filled with the contents of books, so wants to plan to read the bible and discover the missing pieces of his life. His wife seems pretty out of it and doesn't understand at all why he would ever want to read, and doesn't support that he hid books from her at all. Something is wrong with her and i don't really understand what. Also, the old man, Faber, is going to help him understand books and memorize the important things about them so that he can get what he needs from them without having to read all the time. He also tries to show him that 99% of the things found in books are in other places as well, and just because their not written down in a book doesn't mean that you cannot find them in everyday places. Im confused about why he wants to burn all the firemens houses, maybe for revenge? But he is a firefighter gone wrong and this could turn out ugly.