NO GUTS NO GLORY

I think Montag's decision to read books was with the risk, because he gets to learn things, and have more knowledge than everyone else. He get's to explore his mind and find more new personal interest. He is going to be set free from that dystopia, everyone there is like controlled and they don't have a social life.  Montag gets to experience stuff others are not going to get the chance to do.

JOURNAL 4/13/20

During this pandemic, it's been really different. Before we used to not pay attention to what we touched or even did. Now I can see that we are all being more careful on who we are around with and what we touch.  This pandemic has brought us more knowledge, and has made us more careful of our surroundings. I feel like after this is all over, people aren't going to be the same anymore, they are going to be scared to get near people. I feel like now that this happened they are now learning how it affects all of us. We are learning how to work as a team right now. It is kind of crazy how all of this changed so fast, without a warning or anything. Never would we have ever thought that in 2020 we would all be stuck at home quarantined scared to even go out. It's pretty scary seeing it on the news all the time, and seeing the deaths rise each day.

THE GLORY OF THE MISTAKE

When we make mistakes we think of it as a bad thing, but in reality when we make mistakes we learn from them.  We learn on the things we need to work on, and the things we are good at.

A CASE FOR WAR?

I believe that people start this violence because they want what we want, they are jealous of what we have. People just do it because they are going through  things, and have mental problems. People just really do not care about others. Sometimes their past can cause this anger on others, that they want to take it out on them.

MURDER JUST BECAUSE

I believe murder is not justified, I mean sure the person should pay for what they did wrong. But, taking someone's life is not our decision to make and something we shouldn't do. The person should pay the consequences by going to jail or something. But by killing someone that's just wrong, you will obviously feel the guilt soon. You won't be able to be in peace knowing you killed someone. Even if you are really angry, and the person did something terrible their life shouldn't be a punishment. They should pay by going to prison for the rest of their lives.  I think that something that can motivate someone in real life, to murder someone, is by taking away the things they love the most. Sometimes if you do that it hurts them painfully and mentally they get out of control.

FAILING TO PLAN IS PLANNING TO FAIL

Faber and Montag, make a plan to plant books in every fireman's homes so that they could get arrested. They plan to take down the oppressive system. I believe that they will fail, and then get caught and get in trouble. I think it will be hard for them to plant stuff to get the fireman's arrested, I mean it's the government, I believe it would be pretty hard to fool them.

SOMETIMES YOU NEED A PROFESSOR

Montag gets in touch with Faber because he wanted to seek knowledge about books. He also wants to get a second copy of the stolen book before he gives it back to Captain Beatty.

IS IT JUST ABOUT THE JOB?

I believe that it is difficult for Montag to do what fireman  are supposed to do for a living because he has never really seen fireman do that. And in that dystopian world you get in trouble for reading. I think that Montag burning books isn't a good thing because he is burning knowledge. I believe doing something that hurts other people is not good, because I don't like doing something that could hurt someone. It's like if someone hurt  me, I would not like it. I think there are other important values in life other than a paycheck. A paycheck is just a number, and someone's feelings are much bigger than a paycheck.

THIS CAT IS CURIOUS

I believe curiosity is influenced by both our personality and culture. We get curious to know more about stuff, sometimes our personality has a lot to do with it because we get curious on the stuff that interests us. For example, our likes in dislikes.  The cat gets curious enough to take the risk, when we are really interest in something and want to find out what will happen if we knew what it was about. I am not really sure on how to explain it.

MY INNER HAPPY

I believe that some of us do find happiness in entertainment, sports, and food. But, there are also others that find fun in learning. Entertainment, sports, and food aren't always what makes people happy. Socializing makes people happy too.  The world doesn't just revolve in sports and entertainment, there is so much more to it. We all have different things that makes us happy.

ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM IN AMERICA

Sometimes slowing people down and making them think can make them be sad and even start a conflict, but that's not always the case. Slowing people down and making them think can be a good thing for them because they get to discover a new part of themselves they have not yet discovered. Letting people think can make them explore their minds and try new things. I believe people don't really think of intelligence as a superpower because they think that anyone can think that way if they try. Many people do not really pay attention to intelligence, because they have technology to help them.  Lots of people criticize and insult those who use their brains because they believe, that just because they are smart they have no social life.  Or that they spend to much time actually learning instead of doing the fun stuff. I believe that we are halfway to where Ray Bradbury feared on us not reading and just relying on technology. Half of us now rely on technology to know the answer, since so many of us have access to it. We sometimes don't even think to ourselves, we rely on Siri or Google. This world is becoming just like the book  Fahrenheit 451  by Ray Bradbury.

UNITED WE STAND?

Independence is important when we are trying to work for ourselves, and take care of ourselves. We can't always just depend on others. Independence is also important when we are trying make decisions for ourselves. Interdependence is important when we need someone to help us on somethings, like a two people job. We don't always need to depend on others, we can just do things ourselves if we are willing to try.

IS IT ME?

A lot of our behavior is influenced by our culture. We see and hear things everyday on our beliefs. Our beliefs can sometimes limit us to do certain things, for example what we wear. Our personalities can also come from our culture, but also on what we see in the everyday world. People try changing who they are to fit in .

BOOKS & NEW TECH

Many people in today's society do not really like reading. they mostly rely on technology to do the thinking for them. I mean it's good that we have technology to help us solve some things, but we should not rely on that. Sometimes technology doesn't have the right answers to your questions. We should read more, because that way we get more knowledge of stuff. We also get to see more things explained in detail in a book, and in a different point of view. I believe that reading a book is more better because we actually get a thorough explanation and more details, online we just get summarized versions and they don't even sometimes make sense.

WHY I WORK

I care enough to work for my family and my education. I work hard everyday so I can make my family proud. I also work hard everyday so I can get a good career and earn enough money to take care of myself. If I did not work at all, and did not try my best at anything. I would just be letting myself down and my family down.

WHAT ARE WE LEARNING NOW?

As we do online school, it feels like what Clarisse from the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, is going through. We just sit around and look a video lessons. Although we are gaining lots of knowledge from this unlike Clarisse. I believe this online school thing would lead to some of us becoming lazy, because we have no one pressuring us to do the work. I believe that many of us would want to do school this way, and then we would transform to online school. Then we would end up like Fahrenheit 451 where the world revolves around only technology.  At least we are gaining knowledge from all of this, and learning to do new things, and practice new skills.

THE RIGHT TO READ

I believe the banning of books was a terrible mistake. Americans need to read in order to gain knowledge and help make this world a better place. Banning books would just make everything a disaster because we would not have the knowledge to make stuff including technology. We need our rights to read. Reading can increase our knowledge and the way we look at things. Just looking at technology and not being able to read to access information, would just make Americans lazy. Everyone gets their information through reading, reading is a part of life. If we can't read this world cannot function because we wouldn't get the information we need. Reading is required in many things, we read everyday. We read newspapers, articles, and even things on television. No matter what, we need reading in our daily lives. So banning books is just a terrible mistake and only going to make this world a terrible place, with people who have no knowledge of anything.

F451 & ME

The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, relates to modern America. Some us do not even stop to look around, and think to ourselves. We are too busy using technology to even look at our surroundings, sometimes we don't even socialize with others. We just do it through our phones, technology has taken over some of us.  Clarisse can relate to some of us, because we actually pay attention to our surroundings and think. Montag can be like some of us because we don't stop to think to ourselves . The dystopian world can relate to modern America because half of us in this world can be unhappy.

F451 SUMMARY PART I

So far what we have read in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, is about a character named Guy Montag. He is a firefighter who starts fires instead of stopping them. He burns book. This book is about a dystopian world, people in this book do not really have a lot of knowledge. They are just basically people who are addict4ed to technology and don't think. It seems to be that these people are not really happy.


In this book Montag meets a girl named Clarisse, he found her walking around. She was different than the others because she actually thought. She is not like everyone who actually does not stop and think about things. Clarisse isn't afraid of Montag like everyone else would be. In fact, she questioned him on whether or not he was even happy. Which actually made Montag react, he doesn't know if he is happy or not. Clarisse's family actually talks to each other unlike other families who barley say a word.


Montag has a wife named Mildred, she is a person who only thinks about herself. She is always wearing he seashells. They sleep in different beds, they are married but don't have a lot of communication like a normal relationship would. Their house is full of technology. Mildred overdosed with medication, but it seems to happen a lot in that world because the doctors said it was normal. They were not even worried, it tells a lot about the world they live in. It seems to be that people living there are unhappy.

451 QUESTIONS, 20 ANSWERS

1. I believe the author chose the "The Hearth and the Salamander”  as a title because I think he connected it to Montag because he sets fires instead of putting them out. 
2. The assumptions the reader can make is that the protagonist, likes to burn stuff. To see things change. 
3. I think the imagery is negative, because the fire hose is spitting acid like a snake; a venomous snake. 
4. I think 451 is a burins post, in which books run in that temperature. Because paper burns at that point. 
5. Clarisse actually thinks, she walks around actually looking around. Her house lights are on because her family actually talks. She is odd because she knows things. 
6. The names are significant because the name clarisse is translated into like clear, which is what her mind is like. The name Guy means Monday in German, which is the beginning of a new week. 
7. She questions if Montag is happy. Montag says he is happy, he doesn't really stop to think he just responds fast. 
8. 3 odd things is that, people don't walk around, no ones lights are on the only light is from their TV, and no one really talks at home. 
9. He thinks Clarisse is odd because she thinks, and actually has conversations. 
10. Montag realizes he isn't happy because his smile fades away. 
11. Seashells in the book are like the AirPods we have now, they allow you to listen to things. Mildred, Montag's wife uses them to listen to things. 
12. Clarisse is different because she seems like a calm girl who thinks outside the box and cares about others , unlike Mildred she seems like serious person who is self centered.