Looking forward to today's fishbowl over Fahrenheit 451. I sensed, on Friday, many comprehension challenges. Let's be sure to use our discussion today to sift through those as well as to explore deeper issues.
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To answer Kaitlyn's question, I don't think that there was a specific event that made them want to start to burn books. I think that there has always been an underlying desire to keep books out of peoples possession. Even now in our society there are certain books that are banned because of what they say. In this book it just took it to an extreme.
ReplyDeleteI agree that there was no specific point but as we talked a bout before starting this book it was originally in the 50s which is around when the began censoring things from the public. It most likely started then but instead of stopping like it did it kept going as technology increased. Soon technology took over and books had to be burned
DeleteSo on page 32 on second panel of the second row he talks about how "at first he did not even know he missed her or was looking for her" who was he looking for?
ReplyDeleteI think that he was looking for Clarisse, because for awhile she was there. She was making him look a new way, forcing him to see the world in a different light. I think that's in a sense why he was looking for her.
DeleteThat makes sense but a follow up question for that would be where did she go? Did we get an answer that i skipped over by not focusing enough on that subject, looking over there is still confusion.
DeleteWhy do you think that the illustrator chose to draw most of the characters in darker colors? Do you think the darker colors have anything to do with the story?
ReplyDeleteI think he chose to draw them in dark colors to show that they have a dark past or that they feel guilty about something. The only character that I've seen that inst drawn in such a dark light is Clarisse. Maybe because shes younger and hasn't lived life as much as the other or because of her odd thoughts and personality make her pure or innocent.
DeleteI do think that the colors have to do with the story. Because almost all of the characters are in darker colors, except Clarisse. She seems to be the only one who questions who she is and why the world is the way it is. Whereas none of the others character in the book are in light colors because they aren't seeing as clearly as Clarisse.
DeleteI think that the colors does mean something for the story. Just not sure what. Also the book cover is dark and not colorful/bright. The author probably wants us to look closer at which colors he uses because they might have a meaning
DeleteIn the book on pages 19, 30, and 31 the illustrator choose to focus on the vents. Why would he make it so that the vent had it's own panel? Could the vents mean something else?
ReplyDeleteI think the illustrator maybe decided to focus on the vents to show a kind of numbing feeling. We all assume that in the novel people are seeing what they want to, so maybe he showed the vents to show that the characters barely notice things that they don't want to notice.
DeleteOn page 73 what do you guys think the meaning of the structure of the page? It is like a giant shadow,but not just on Montage, but the professor too what does that represent
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with what Anika said about Montag hiding his feeling and emotions. And the fear he had towards Beatty finding out about the books. She also said that he doesn't really know how to deal with it, I think that it is very much true to say that because I think that he did it before the books he read, but that just pushed to hide even more so.
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