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Here are your questions for the second third of the book that you have chosen. Your responses to each question should be three to four sentences, minimum, and should include a quote from the book wherever possible to justify your response. Your responses should be posted as comments on this post prior to the class of the due date on which they are assigned; you may also submit responses in handwritten or typed form.
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PRE-READING QUESTIONS
1. The novel Fahrenheit 451 is part of a literary movement called "Dystopian fiction", of which Orwell's 1984 is the most prominent example. Read the following excerpt and summarize it into a response less than 100 words.
http://wsu.edu/~brians/science_fiction/451.htm
2. Consider the issue of censorship. How and when are you censored? What is appropriate to censor and what is not appropriate? Write a 100-word response in which you discuss the answer to this question.
3. Using the following vocabulary guide drawn directly from the novel, create a magnetic/found poem. Describe which words you chose, and why.
https://secure.layingthefoundation.org/english/vocab/novels/Fahrenheit%20451.pdf
READING QUESTIONS PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand
1. How were movies, pictures and TV the beginning of "it all"?
2. "Out of the nursery, into the college, and then back into the nursery" Explain this in your own words.
3. Why do people read less and play more?
4. "Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca" Explain this in your own words.
5. What do schools turn out instead of intellectuals?
6. How do firemen "keep everyone happy."
7. "She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why?" Explain this in your own words.
8. How can Guy get back in the good graces?
9. Why are there no front porches?
10. Why is Mildred acting strangely?
11. What is the rest of the world like?
12. What mistake could Montag be making?
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PRE-READING QUESTIONS
1. The novel Fahrenheit 451 is part of a literary movement called "Dystopian fiction", of which Orwell's 1984 is the most prominent example. Read the following excerpt and summarize it into a response less than 100 words.
The excerpt is giving examples of the different novels and works throughout time that were considered dystopian fiction. It compares them all to Fahrenheit 451 and explains why these books are so appealing to people. The author says that the main reason that Fahrenheit 451 was so popular when it was first published was because it was published in 1953 – right after the war. A lot of people rejoiced the fact that America wasn’t like that and they were free. Another reason it may be popular is because the underdog comes out on top, and it also appeals to people who aren't athletic.
2. Consider the issue of censorship. How and when are you censored? What is appropriate to sensor and what is not appropriate? Write a 100-word response in which you discuss the answer to this question.
I’m censored mostly at school. We can only say certain things that we want to or else we’re in trouble, although we’re supposed to have freedom of speech. Sometimes we’re censored at home, too, because we’re only allowed to say certain things or else we’ll get in trouble by our parents. I can understand why adults censor us, but I think that we shouldn’t get in trouble for what we say unless it’s really derogatory or a threat. I’m old enough to have my own thoughts and opinions and I think I have the right to express them without worrying about being in trouble over it.
READING QUESTIONS PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand
1. How were movies, pictures and TV the beginning of "it all"?
Beatty says that they "didn't get along well until photography." Movies, pictures, and TV were then created. He says that books only appealed to some people, but these things appealed to everyone, so they were the beginning of it all. They made books less and less popular because they could just see the book made into a film.
2. "Out of the nursery, into the college, and then back into the nursery" Explain this in your own words.
It means that you start out being treated as a baby, but once you hit college you're expected to actually learn and do your work. However, once your back out into the real world again, it's the same thing as before college because you don't have to read the book, you could just read the digests and the shortened version of everything.
3. Why do people read less and play more?
People stopped reading as much because all of the books were getting shortened into radio shows and book columns and dictionary resumes. Beatty says, "School is shortened, discipline relaxed, English and spelling gradually gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?" He says that there was more time for play when learning was shortened.
4. "Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca" Explain this in your own words.
It means that the magazines had to stop printing anything that would cause controversy, and that they became "kept clean."
5. What do schools turn out instead of intellectuals?
Beatty says they "turn out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators."
6. How do firemen "keep everyone happy."
Beatty says that books just cause too much controversy. He says that there are many minorities and that books upset at least one of them. Firemen keep everyone happy because they're supposed to be eliminating the problems by burning the books. Beatty says to Guy: "You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can't have our minorities upset and stirred. Ask yourself, What do we want in this country, above all? People want to be happy, isn't that right? ... Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag."
7. "She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why?" Explain this in your own words.
Beatty is talking about Clarisse. He means that Clarisse didn't want to know how to do things, she wanted to know why you should do them.
8. How can Guy get back in the good graces?
Guy could burn the books and go back to the way he used to be and Mildred would probably just think it was a phase. If he would've burned all of the books as soon as he read the poetry out loud in front of Mildred's friends, they might not have called Beatty and turned him in.
9. Why are there no front porches?
There are no front porches because they do not want people to sit around and have free time. When people have free time, they think about things more.
10. Why is Mildred acting strangely?
I think Mildred is acting very strangely because she's worried she'll get blamed for the books, too. She's acting strangely around Guy because she knows that she’s going to call Beatty and reveal that Guy is breaking the law.
11. What is the rest of the world like?
The rest of the world isn't interested in books and knowledge. Beatty tells Montag at one point that people who are more intelligent than others are always the ones who have a harder time in society and that they're always the ones who are outsiders. The rest of the world is more interested in their activities and sports. For example, Mildred spends all of her time in the parlor with "her family." People look around them, but they don't actually see anything. They're oblivious to the problems and issues they're surrounded by.
12. What mistake could Montag be making?
Montag could be getting himself into trouble. The section ends with them pulling up to his house, so he's caught and he'll probably be arrested.
Fahrenheit 451- Second Round Pre-Reading Questions
Paul Brian on Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and the Dystopian Tradition
Fahrenheit 451 is one of the most popular novels written in the style of Dystopian Fiction. Along with George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451 depicts a society where knowledge and individually are outlawed and replaced conformity and a mindless public mass. The writers of Dystopian Fiction blame the rising dependence of technology as their inspiration for their predictions of the future. The problem with dystopian novels is that they often exaggerate the problems of the present in order to point to future problems. The writers were trying to warn people against the negative effects of television and media when in fact, the effects of the media are not as bad as the dystopian writers foretold.
Censorship
Censorship is a serious and growing issue in the United States today. As teenagers, we are censored many more times than we care to count in our daily lives. From music and language to television, movies, and books adults continue to control and censor our lives. But while censorship is a major issue, and needs to be addressed, it can also be a useful tool in limiting children’s exposure to obscene and profane material.
The main thing censored for children and teenagers, is cursing and offensive language. This type of censorship is useless. By censoring language in the media, they aren’t eliminating bad language, because the adults who censor us use it. Censoring obscene magazines, pictures, and offensive concepts in books is also in vain. Teenagers are exposed to such things everyday in ways that cannot be censored. And while small children can be shielded from these things, it is much more difficult to censor teenagers.
Magnetic/Found Poem
Phoenix
An abstracted face,
Blanched white by the rising moon,
Then painted red by the fires
Of a dying world,
Waits on the edge of the cliff,
Presiding over the end.
As the fire consumes
More and more,
And the cacophony of dying men
Grows louder and louder,
The Angel of Destruction
Is pulled away from
stolid oblivion,
to look upon the
bestial execution.
The doomed closest to
the base of the shallow cliff,
reach toward the aesthetic face
of the Angel,
the last of beauty they will ever see.
They are graced with a serene smile,
and thus die,
just as the Angel intended.
Many days and many nights,
Does the fire burn,
All the while the Angel presides,
Watching the dead burn.
Until a dictum is given
And the destruction ceases.
The Angel turns to walk away,
Without so much as even an odious glance,
at the desolation of
the smoldering world,
knowing with certitude
That just as the phoenix rises again,
From the ashes of its own body
So will the earth,
in memory of the dead.
Reading Questions Part 2
1. Q- How were movies, pictures and T.V. at the beginning of “it all.”
A- At the beginning of the firemen’s occupation, movies, pictures, and T.V. was simpler and massed produced along with books.
2. Q- “Out of the nursery, into the college, then back into the nursery.” Explain this in your own words.
A- When Beatty makes this analogy, he is speaking of ‘the intellectual pattern for the last five years.” He is saying that in the beginning, we were taken out of ignorance and into a state of rebirth and the back into ignorance.
3. Q- Why do people read less and play more?
A- People read less and play more because their lives have become digitized, and super-organized. They have no time to sit down and read because they are always going somewhere. Philosophy, History, Language, and Communication are being neglected, slowly creating a flock-like populace, in which every one is the same, and no one is intellectual.
4. Q- “Magazines become a nice blend of vanilla tapioca.” Explain this in your own words.
A- When Beatty compares magazines with vanilla pudding, he is saying that they have become very bland in previous years. They began to b manufactured for the flock; without many different target audiences, or topics.
5. Q-What do schools turn out instead of intellectuals?
A- Instead of thinkers, creators, critics and examiners, they turn out runners, jumpers, snatchers, and swimmers.
6. Q-How do the firemen “keep everyone happy”?
A-The firemen keep everyone happy by getting rid of all the things and people that question the current society. The main questioner is knowledge, and the thing that passes on knowledge; books. The firemen burn the books so that the flock will continue to stay happy.
7. Q-“She didn’t want to know how a thing was done, but why?” Explain this in your own words.
A-When Beatty Is speaking of Clarisse to Montag, he says that she was odd because she wanted to why things were done instead of the customary how, taught by teachers. Beatty says this to prove to Montag that she was dangerous, because she was different than the flock; she questioned the reasons behind actions, instead of the process.
8. Q-How can Guy get back in the good graces?
A- To get back in the good graces of the fire department, Montag must burn his book, and come back to work. If he doesn’t burn himself, the other firemen will simply come and burn it for him.
9. Q-Why are there no front porches?
A- There are no front porches because they were a place that people could think and have intelligent conversations. People began to think less, and because they thought and talked less, the front porches fell out of fashion.
10. Q-Why is Mildred acting strangely?
A-Mildred is acting strange because she is under a lot of stress. Montag could become a criminal, and she is worrying about what this will do to her. Montag begins to act differently, and threatens to expose them. She tries to cover up his behavior while giving off the impression that nothing is wrong.
11. Q-What is the rest of the world like?
A-The rest of the world is just the same. Nothing is different, even though Montag’s point of view has changed.
12. Q-What mistake could Montag be making?
A-Montag is becoming an enemy of the flock; he is straying from society. Montag wants to read and understand what he reads. This is considered dangerous to society, and if he is found out, Montag will be destroyed by the very organization he was once a part of.
Fahrenheit 451 Workbook #2 Questions – Tyler Hurst – Period #2
1. Dystopian fiction is a counter movement to utopian fiction. In utopian fiction, a writer creates a land where everyone is equal and there is peace and harmony. Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal society. On the other hand, dystopian fiction is the creation of a nightmare world where utopian ideas have been put into place. They usually warn against a modern trend (like not reading in Fahrenheit 451) and the threat of oppressive regimes (such as the Party in 1984).
2. I am censored primarily while I am at school. We are not permitted to say certain things at certain times. I am also censored in GCTV before I am allowed to post an episode on the Internet. When I go home, I have almost no censorship due to the ability to communicate and share information through the Internet. I believe that there should not be any censorship on music, television, or film. There should be warnings that allow parents to block certain media outlets, but other than that, the people should be able to make a fundamental choice.
3. A rising phoenix from the dust,
Melancholy no more.
It hears censorious remarks,
But yet has a stolid appearance.
4. Movies, pictures, and television were the beginning of it all because they took people’s attention away from reading. In order to satisfy cravings for entertainment, people turned to forms of instant entertainment. Instead of reading, people would only watch TV, look at big glossy pictures, and watch movies. In Fahrenheit 451, the government really never had any intention of banning books. The people themselves went away from reading and the government merely followed suit.
5. They turn out kids are looking for instant gratification and causing trouble. “I’m afraid o children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way? My uncle says no. Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car wrecks.” The schools in the book are creating criminals and speed freaks, which go out in the world and often face a terrible fate.
6. Firemen keep books, an alleged source of sorrow, away from the populace. They believe that books are always creating controversy and always putting small minority groups against each other. There cannot be peace as long as different groups of people are feuding against each other over something as simple as a book. The pursuit of happiness does not include books in the minds of the firemen and the population. It is for this reason that firemen keep everyone “happy”.
7. This line is describing Clarisse, but in my opinion also describes Faber, the professor. They are not interested in the simple mechanics of day-to-day life, as much as they are interested in why things operate in such a manner.
8. The best way for Montag to get back in good graces with Captain Beatty would be to turn in the books, admit his guilt, and go on with the daily burning of literature. I don’t think Guy could get back into good graces with his wife because she was unhappy at the beginning of the novel before he told her about all of his books. There is no satisfying her because she values her “family” more than her own husband.
9. Because they do not want people to be out in the world and free. While sitting on a porch, one usually sits and ponders various issues. If people have time to be outdoors and relax, in that free time they will be able to reflect. When people would have time to sit back and reflect life in the country, they might become dissatisfied with the way their life is going.
10. She is acting strangely because she is not only worried about getting got for possessing illegal books, but she is actually severely depressed. Mildred, in my opinion, is suicidal, as seen in the earlier parts of the book. She overdosed on sleeping pills in the first part of the book, and after Montag’s stunt at the end of the second part of the book, she runs to the bathroom to again overdose on the sleeping tablets.
11. The rest of the world is described as poor and not nearly on the same level as the people living in the country in which Montag resides. They view Montag’s country as full of narcissists who have no concern for the rest of the world. They are only concerned with their own prosperity and happiness.
12. He could be endangering his life, his home, and his wife. He is breaking the law, and making the scene in front of his two guests doesn’t help the matter. He is risking everything he has obtained in his life on a couple of books.
Fahrenheit 451
1) The novel Fahrenheit 451 is part of a literary movement called "Dystopian fiction", of which Orwell's 1984 is the most prominent example. Read the following excerpt and summarize it into a response less than 100 words.
Fahrenheit 451 is part of a literary movement called the "Dystopian Fiction." The word Dystopias is the opposite of the word utopia. It based on human misery and poverty. The excerpt on dystopian writing is very interesting and it talks about some of the major novels written about or in the genre dytopian Fiction. It has the most famous and best dystopian novel 1984 by George Orwell in the expert. The inspiration for the novel Fahrenheit 451 was the 1933 Nazi book burnings but Ray Bradbury may have been inspired by the "Red Scare" era instead. The article also has many more novels such as the, The Martian Chronicles and Tunnel Under the World.
2. Consider the issue of censorship. How and when are you censored? What is appropriate to sensor and what is not appropriate? Write a 100-word response in which you discuss the answer to this question.
The issue of censorship is absurd because people shouldn't have to censor their music or their movies just because some people find it offensive, they don't have to watch or listen to it. I'm censored in some music on the radio and some movies I watch on TV but other than that I'm not really censored in any other way. Censoring should be appropriate when it's a kid's movie or young child because even though they're probably exposed to bad language at their home but it should be censored from the movies and or shows they watch. Music is not appropriate to sensor because it's an expression of one's feeling or thought's and should not be cut out for offensive language.
1.How were movies, pictures and TV the beginning of "it all"?
Movies, pictures and even TV were the beginning of it all. More people like movies and pictures better than books so they printed less books.
2.. "Out of the nursery, into the college, and then back into the nursery" Explain this in your own words. "Out of the nursery, into college, and then back into the nursery" means that when you first start out your in a nursery being treated like a baby and when you get into college your expected to grow up and mature. When you get into your old ages you go back to the nursery being treated as a baby, as being incapable of taking care of yourself.
3. Why do people read less and play more?
People stopped reading so much because people decided to shorten it into columns and radio shows. People play more because the learning seized and was shortened until its gradually neglected. "School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasures lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?" Said Beatty.
4. "Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca" Explain this in your own words.
Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca which means that magazines were becoming a big problem in the society and that they had to make them more appropriate for the readers.
5. What do schools turn out instead of intellectuals?
Schools turn out more jumpers, runners, grabbers and swimmers instead of intellectuals. "turn out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators." Said Beatty.
6. How do firemen "keep everyone happy."
Firemen "keep everyone happy" by burning the books because it makes at least one person unhappy to read books. The firemen get rid of the problem by disposing of all the books. They burn books to keep the society happy.
7. "She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why?" Explain this in your own words.
"She didn't want to know a thing was done, but why?" In this sentence Beatty was talking to Montag about Clarisse. Clarisse was very odd to Beatty because she didn't want to know how something worked or how it happened but why it happened or worked. "The girl? She was a time bomb. The family had been feeding her subconscious, I'm sure, from what I saw of her school record." Said Beatty.
8. How can Guy get back in the good graces?
Guy can get back into the good graces by burning books and pretend like nothing ever happened. Everyone would thought it was just some stage but if he didn't burn the poetry books they would have never called Beatty and turned Montag in.
9. Why are there no front porches?
There are no front porches because they do not wish for people to have free time on their hands by sitting around on a porch. If they had porches then they would have more free time which would lead to more and more thoughts ad=nd thinking.
10. Why is Mildred acting strangely?
Mildred is acting strangely because she's is terribly worried she will also get blamed for her husbands mistakes about the books. She is acting strangely because she decides to call Beatty and tell him that Montag is breaking the law by reading books.
11. What is the rest of the world like?
The rest of the world is working while they play. The world is also not interested in books either but the world enjoys sports and activities over books any day because their unaware of the issues and concerns that are really occurring at the time.
12. What mistake could Montag be making?
Montag could be making more trouble than what it's worth to comprehend books and there meanings. He is wondering off becoming isolated from the group that burns books for a living.
Sam Furst
Pre-reading Questions
1. Dystopain Fiction is a complete opposite of Utopia. Utopia is the type of writing that paints an ideal world that is perfect, especially, in it’s social, political, and moral aspect. Dystopain fiction on the other hand, is a style of writing that suggests a world where society inflicts misery and oppression on its people. Dystopain fiction is fiction that draws a bleak view of the future of a society characterized by misery, as squalor, virus, and congestion. George Orwell’s 1984 is one of the most best known examples of Dystopain fiction. It talks about a world where the government controls how the people think and feel, and it causes people to live in desolation.
2. Censorship is supervision and control of the information and ideas that are spread among the people within a society. It is the deletion of material that may be found harmful, or sensitive. Us people all around are censored all the time, at school, work, home, by many things we say, and by many actions we make. I am censored all the time by freedom of speech. I can say some things I want, but some things I say may be harmful, or considered inappropriate to certain individuals. The books we read at school are censored as well. Some schools have even gone to the point of burning certain books because they feel they are wrong for the students to read. Burning books is inappropriate censorship. A good thing about censorship is making sure people are not discriminated against, religiously put down, and peoples rights remain where the next persons ends.
Our Turn
3. Your word is just a feint,
My contempt will never rest.
I’ll rend you like a warrior,
With my foot upon your chest.
The hostile energy will flourish,
As we show you what you are.
Our incessant fold will thrash you,
To remind you what you’re for.
Live your life in melancholy,
Then we’ll pulverize your name.
It’s not so fun when you're the pond,
And were playing the game.
READING QUESTIONS PART 2:
1. How were movies, pictures and TV the beginning of "it all"?
-Answer: According to Beatty, Movies pictures, and TV were the beginning of the rage against books. Why would people want to read a book, that only was interesting to few, when they could view it live, and see the story so realistic it feels as if they were in it.
2. "Out of the nursery, into the college, and then back into the nursery" Explain this in your own words.
-Answer: At first your babied all throughout your life, then working hard is a necessity. Once you’ve gained all the knowledge you think you’ll need, you’ll learn less and go back to being babied again.
3. Why do people read less and play more?
-Answer: The world in which Montag lives is based on electronics, and real-life adventures. No one has time to read, and knowledge is being cut down so much, that people don’t understand what books have to say, and they ignore them in order to but all there attention to TV, movies, and photography. Beatty says, "School is shortened, discipline relaxed, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, and pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?” Why Read when you can hear the story being told.
4. "Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca" Explain this in your own words.
-Answer: Beatty compares magazines with vanilla tapioca to suggest the fact that magazines really say nothing at all. There are no certain articles that appeals to particular people, the magazines have became insipid, perhaps to lower comprehension and individual thinking.
5. What do schools turn out instead of intellectuals?
-Answer: “They turn out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators." –Beatty
6. How do firemen "keep everyone happy."
-Answer: Firemen keep everyone happy because certain books offend different people. By burning books firemen eliminate self-pity and destroy a volume of words that could possible harm, or upset. Beatty tells Montag that books harm the feelings of minorities, and by burning the books, fireman keep everyone happy.
7. "She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why?" Explain this in your own words.
-Answer: Clarisse was a very different girl from the rest of the world in which Montag lived. Beatty said she didn’t want to know how things were done, she wanted to know why.
8. How can Guy get back in the good graces?
-Answer: In order to get back in the good graces, Guy must burn the book himself, or the firemen will.
9. Why are there no front porches?
-Answer: They eliminated front porches, because that's where people would go to think and talk about things, and they didn't want people to sit around thinking.
10. Why is Mildred acting strangely?
-Answer: I believe Mildred is acting strangely because she’s worried that something very bad will happen because of Montage’s obsession with books. I don’t really think Mildred is to concerned about Guy, but rather afraid he will get her into trouble, and cause he to loose her house.
11. What is the rest of the world like?
-Answer: The rest of the world believes everything the firemen say. No one wants to read books, no one wants to feel bad and be hurt by them. No one thinks they have anything real to say and the whole world is loosing it’s thought, and care, second by second.
12. What mistake could Montag be making?
-Answer: Montag is going against what he use to be, what he use to love. He’s going against what society believes, and he is breaking the law. He is caught at the end of book 2, and it is only reasonable to believe he is making a mistake and destroying his life.
1. The novel Fahrenheit 451 is part of a literary movement called "Dystopian fiction", of which Orwell's 1984 is the most prominent example. Read the following excerpt and summarize it into a response less than 100 words.
The “Dystopian fiction” movement was about failed utopias. The movement picked up speed around the time TVs became popular. TVs were seen as a bad thing to some people, because large groups would lump together and stare for hours at the TV, mesmerized by it. Because of this, some dystopian authors, namely Ray Bradbury, the author of the novel “Fahrenheit 451”, were inspired to see the rise of TV as a bad thing. Bradbury also, like many other authors of this movement, was interested in atomic wars. In his novel “Fahrenheit 451” the society had already be through 2 atomic wars. The novel of dystopian fiction made by Bradbury don’t seem to be coming into realty just yet, with things like internet and chat rooms, people are as free as ever and reading like crazy.
2. Consider the issue of censorship. How and when are you censored? What is appropriate to censor and what is not appropriate? Write a 100-word response in which you discuss the answer to this question.
Censorship, @#%!, its something that I take lightly by any means, I hate it with a passion. People are censored whenever something does disagrees with a person in power, or a whole lot of people (usually parents who don’t want their kids to be exposed to bad stuff, I mean you know as well as I that parents have no control of what their kids get to watch or listen to or whatever, nope, none). An example of a person in power wanting to censor something, oh say, the novel “Fahrenheit 451” would be if the novel was promoting illegal things that must not be inspired to do. How this novel would be censored is, probably all the copies would be destroyed.
On the side of the parents, the censoring would be “ ‘Rapper Hippy Hoop’ said, [insert bad word here] in there song and my child listens to his stuff! We must censor the bad stuff!” Then if the song actually ever does get censored, censors would just bleep out or remove the “icky bad words”.
As for what’s appropriate to censor...Nothing I can see, FREEDOM OF SPEECH BABY!
3. Using the following vocabulary guide drawn directly from the novel, create a magnetic/found poem. Describe which words you chose, and why.
The Melancholy Fire Bird
The Phoenix comes.
Its face a melancholy tune.
Gliding through the air ever so slowly, it burns all it sees.
Casting everything into oblivion, its aesthetic flames have a sad mellow tune.
The phoenix is quiet, the world the surrounds is desolate.
The scythe of death, which follows the quiet amber flames, is dull and rusty.
As tired as the scythe is, it still follows.
The phoenix will burn forever; the landscape will never have life again.
At least, the lands death brings the end of all suffering.
What can be left with pain if it no longer lives?
1. How were movies, pictures and TV the beginning of "it all"?
Movies, pictures and TV brought on a change in society. With these new ways or relaying information, be it entertainment or educating or whatever, books soon became seemingly obsolete and thus it would have been easy to remove them without much resistance “The fact is we didn’t get along well until photography came into its own. Then- motion pictures in the early twentieth century.” This was even easier seeing how easy it is to make people focus on having fun and how much they really don’t care what happens to things that aren’t spoon sped to them, people are lazy, so things like TV dominated silly old novels. Aside from that, having TV and pictures and movies also gave the government the ability to actually replace books with those other forms of education/entertainment.
2. "Out of the nursery, into the college, and then back into the nursery" Explain this in your own words.
"Out of the nursery, into the college, and then back into the nursery" I’m going to explain this in segments starting with the “Out of the nursery” section of the quote.
“Out of the nursery” This is referring to when a child grows up and they want to take care of themselves thus they are “Out of the nursery”.
“into the college” Is when the young adult who just came “Out of the nursery” is now going to get prepare themselves for the rest of their lives. In other words, “Gonna get that diploma and have nice payin job!” (Quote by me)
“and then back into the nursery" The final part of the quote is a reference to after the college is done with, instead of being ready to take on the world, the person is being taken care of by the government. They can’t support themselves without aid and have no means of ever being truly being independent.
So it goes full circle. First the parents take care of the person, then the person try’s to prepare for the rest of their lives, only to end up in the government’s “nursery”.
3. Why do people read less and play more?
They want to play and have fun, who cares about reading when there is so much other fun stuff to do? People are taut to be more like “jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers,” and less like thing such as ”knowers, and imaginative creators”. The habits to do nothing but have fun are taut at school, so most people “Read less and play more” because that’s what they’ve learned to do.
4. "Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca" Explain this in your own words.
This was said by Beatty. It was stating how the magazines could no, longer offend anyone. The “flavor” of a magazine was like “a nice blend of vanilla tapioca”, it wasn’t a harsh flavor, so every one could enjoy it, it wasn’t filled with any spicy flavors that could harm someone.
5. What do schools turn out instead of intellectuals?
The schools turn out people who are more into things that don’t require too much thought. “With schools turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it disserved to be.”
6. How do firemen "keep everyone happy."
They burn books, keeping everyone from reading them and thus helping prevent people from thinking about things that would make them unhappy. Otherwise books could be smuggled and people might be tempted to read them and have thoughts they don’t like.
7. "She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why?" Explain this in your own words.
This is in reference to Clarisse McClellan. She was different from normal people, she wanted to know the reason behind things not just knowing how to make something or do something, but why that thing was being made or done.
8. How can Guy get back in the good graces?
By going back to his old self, throwing away what the books did to him. Being like the other people, and not caring about books. He needs to just reverse what he’s done to himself.
9. Why are there no front porches?
People were able to sit and think and talk on the their front porches. The “architects” didn’t like that at all so they removed the porches. The false reason given is that the porches made the houses look bad. “My uncle says the architects got rid of the front porches because they didn’t look well. But my uncle says that was merely rationalizing it; the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn’t want people sitting like that thinking, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong kind of social life.”
10. Why is Mildred acting strangely?
She’s nerves because books are being hid in her house. She doesn’t want her house to burn, she’s know that will happen if the books are found in her home.
11. What is the rest of the world like?
Dumb and not caring. They don’t care for things like knowledge, safety, or anything that’s not fun. Unthinking and a lot like animals are a good way to describe them. Or as Clarisse Said “But everyone I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one another.”
12. What mistake could Montag be making?
He could “Crash and burn man! Crash and burn!” (Quote by me) He’s rebelling and based off the novel “1984” he could just be setting himself up, like when Winston tried to rebel but actually just falling into his own doom by trusting O’Brian. The odds are also not in his favor and whenever the odds aren’t in your favor, you’re running a major risk of losing (example being 1 person against 3, my moneys on the 3). The odds are against him, when the chips are down he may not be able to pull it off.
(R.I.P Winston, Julia was a mistake!)
Book Questions
1.) How were movies, pictures and TV the beginning of "it all"?
People were attracted to TV more than they were to the books because people were bored to death with the books that they read. The TV really just people today it just drew the people in and entertained them and so with people not reading books and watching more TV people just decided to get rid of them.
2.) "Out of the nursery, into the college, and then back into the nursery" Explain this in your own words.
That people are born knowing nothing and as life was to go on the people would learn more and more. But the truth is that they truly know nothing of what is happening or what is going on because they are not independently mind. They are really controlled and so they nothing of what is actually happening.
3.) Why do people read less and play more?
The people are restricted on what they are allowed to read because the government will not let them read. They are afraid that they people are going to become free minded and try to revolt against them. The government is trying to pull the stops out on what the people can and can’t go and reading is one of them.
4.) "Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca" Explain this in your own words.
What it means is that the magazines did away with controversy and things that would help people learn things that let be independent and so the magazines where made clean.
5.)The What do schools turn out instead of intellectuals?
schools would turn out runnners, jumpers, grabbers, and snatchers things that people could use to make more firemen instead of criticts, knowers, and creators
6.) How do firemen "keep everyone happy."
the firemen keep everything happy by making sure that there is no controversy in the society. Books for question are always fought over so the firemen get rid of the books to make everyone happy.
7.)"She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why?" Explain this in your own words.
This is a qoute from Beatty talking about Clarisse and that she didnt want to know how things where done but she wanted to know why she should do them in the first place. Because clarisse is a little more opened minded than everyone else.
8.) How can Guy get back in the good graces?
The only way that Guy can back into good graces is if he would burn his books that he took including the last copy of the bible that he stole from the old lady that burned to death.
9.)Why are there no front porches?
Because people where to relaxed and having fun sitting on there front porches using them as away to talk to people and share there conversations on what was going on this was making much controvery with the goverment so they did away with them.
10.)Why is Mildred acting strangely?
Mildred is acting so strangely because she is scared of what could become of Guy because she knows he is a criminal and she tries to cover everthing up like nothings wrong that is a main reason for her strange behavior.
11.)What is the rest of the world like?
The rest of the world is much different than the world where Guy and Beatty are because they are much less intrested in books and intellegence. Everyone else is intrested in sports and games and having a good time. People who are intrested in books and knowledge are frowned upon and really more or less outsiders to the rest of the world.
12.)What mistake could Montag be making?
Montag is getting himself in trouble with reading books and at the end of the section Montag goes to work and to talk to Beatty and as they are talk they get called out to go out on the job and the house that they arrive at happends to be Montags house so he is probly neck deep in trouble.
Fahrenheit 451 Book 2 Questions
1.Shortly before the beginning of book two, Beatty tells Montag (during a long speech) that after the invention of photography and movies that people were no longer entertained with books, and that it was much easier for everyone to watch something then to read about it. This eventually led to the abandonment of books, and finally the burning.
2.During the speech mentioned above, Beatty makes an interesting statement, saying that humans go “Out of the nursery, into the college, and then back into the nursery”. He is stating that humans start out in life being ignorant and uneducated, then enter a stage of learning and intelligence, and then finally fall back into a stage similar to the first.
3.In the novel, people read less because they were heavily influenced by new kinds of media. After the creation of radio and television the people realized they could enjoy these quickly and without education, and became far less interested in books.
4.Beatty says that after television began, the first step in ruining books was that they would often compress them into to digests of one page or less. He says: “Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca”, stating that magazines had lost any real sustenance and had ruined themselves and the stories in them.
5.In Fahrenheit 451 most schools only taught students to be reckless and wild, instead of educating them in any real way.
6.The firemen serve the purpose of “keeping everyone happy” by burning books that are said to be slanderous, racist, or offensive-whether they really are or not.
7.During the speech mentioned in question one, Beatty explains to Montag that he is better off not worrying about Clarisse. He says she was odd in the sense that “She didn’t want to know how a thing was done, but why.”
8.Beatty tells Guy that all firemen enter a stage where they want to read some of the books they’re burning. He says that when this occurs, they give the fireman twenty-four hours to return the book. If he hasn’t by then, they burn the book for him.
9.In Fahrenheit 451 the houses are fireproof and have no porches. It is said that the porches were torn down because people enjoyed sitting out on them to think for long periods of time.
10.Mildred begins acting strange at one point because she realizes that Montag has taken a book from one of the houses he burnt. However, she becomes even worse when he shows her the twenty or so he has stashed in the ventilation shaft.
11.During one of his walks, Montag explains that the entire every country in the world other than America is poor and has very little. Apparently, America has become a world bully, and uses it’s nuclear bombs to keep all other countries at bay.
12.Montag decides that instead of giving Beatty the original book that he took (the bible), he is going to take it to a man named Faber and get it copied.
1. The book of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a type of dystopia. This term is derived from “Utopia,” the word that Thomas More used for the title of his sixteenth-century novel depicting an ideal society. That was a part of science fiction that became popular in the 1950’s. This was due to writers protesting the comfort and cultural emptiness of television and post war. The best known of this type of books is 1984 by George Orwell. Mostly the books were about how the future would look like to them or end up being.
2.Unsually censorship is used to block words or sayings that people aren’t supposed to say. Like on television they block cuss words. However in my life instead of using censors to block words, I in my own way censor or block actions that are out of my comfort zone. Through my anxiety I have censored many activities I have once enjoyed and have done easily before now. My mind censors out things and places that make me nervous or uncomfortable. In many ways this is the way I am censored in my life and the way I am living today.
3.
censorship of words and books
In a community full of futuristic thoughts
With contempt in their thoughts
That their community is right
While it is burning in the ashes
Of the knowledge the books contain
That they the fireman sets on fire
While some don’t understand
What harm they are doing
To the knowledge of the people
1. To people like Mildred, television was the way they liked to receive information instead of through books because she preferred the people and the colors. It was the beginning of a whole new world of color and pictures.
2.It is because in the nursery you learn how to live a certain way with your parents. However when you get out of college you have to learn again how to live without them. It’s like retraining yourself.
3.They read less and played more because they could receive information faster through television and radio then reading a book. In which gave them more free time to play.
4.Magazines is a nice blend with books because they are the same as they are also different. For magazines are full of pictures and colors, unlike books are only words. However both are essential ways of receiving information.
5.Instead they turn out more runners, jumpers, grabbers, snatchers, and stuff instead of thinkers and philosopher type people.
6. The fireman keep happy by trying to keep the community the way it always had without books. The happy and loving community and they like to burn books to keep it that way.
7.They was talking about Clarisse in this state that she didn’t want to know how things are done. That she was unordinary and maybe it was good that she was gone in the community.
8.Montag would have to sadly burn his book and return to his old life as a fireman. Then be like them to and keep burning books.
9.They didn’t have front porches because they don’t won’t people to set around and think freely. Plus to have conversations and the great things about having a porch to set on.
10.Mildred is probably afraid that she would get in trouble also. Because Montag was a criminal with his possession of the book.
11.Well against Montag, the world is different because they don’t like books as he does. Also the rest likes to play more in activities like his wife Mildred.
12. He is different from the rest of the community, he is an outsider like Clarisse was, because he wants to read books instead of doing activities and play like the rest. In which can make him the mistake of going against his community.
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