Friday, October 27, 2006

Fahrenheit 451 Fishbowl 113-136 period 2

100 Comments:

Blogger Kjerstinl said...

Beatty knew that Montag had the flame thrower, and he knew that he could do something with it.

Fri Oct 27, 08:49:00 AM  
Blogger christas said...

I think maybe Beatty wanted to die because maybe he felt the emptiness of his life and maybe he even wanted to challenge the system by reading books, but didn't have the courage. Maybe he felt that life was not worth living if he didn't challenge the system.

Fri Oct 27, 08:49:00 AM  
Blogger christas said...

adamb~
what do you mean? Who?

Fri Oct 27, 08:51:00 AM  
Blogger endsleye said...

Sarah
I think he said that because Beatty didnt try to save himself. He didnt try to stop Montag.

Fri Oct 27, 08:52:00 AM  
Blogger Alex_Manning said...

mmmmkay...guys how are we gonna separate the comments from one group to another

i say that my group is group 1, and we write GROUP 1 at the top, and group two does the same... post back!

Fri Oct 27, 08:53:00 AM  
Blogger DeclanH said...

thats kind of true in any society. no one thinks bad things will happen to them. it is just taken to the next level in their society because they don't care at all if their friends or even family die.

Fri Oct 27, 08:53:00 AM  
Blogger Hannah J said...

GROUP 1

sounds good alex!

Fri Oct 27, 08:53:00 AM  
Blogger Kjerstinl said...

no! I think we should be a whole group on this because our conversations are different between one another.

Fri Oct 27, 08:53:00 AM  
Blogger chelseah said...

ok alex sounds good!

Fri Oct 27, 08:53:00 AM  
Blogger shaunam said...

Jess, I think that to REALLY challenge the system is to die. I guess to really get the point across

Fri Oct 27, 08:54:00 AM  
Blogger tanal said...

Jess i don't think that death is the only way to challenge the system but it is definatly the method that is used the most throught the three books

Fri Oct 27, 08:55:00 AM  
Blogger DeclanH said...

alex
I don't think we really need to separate the groups. we're challenging the system here.

Fri Oct 27, 08:55:00 AM  
Blogger Hannah J said...

GROUP 1

I think that Montag may have killed Beatty because Clarisse introduced him to a new way of thinking from the beginning. She kind of started a chain reaction in a way...so Montag's new thinking caused him to kill Beatty out of anger and maybe because Beatty just annoyed the crap out of him.

Fri Oct 27, 08:55:00 AM  
Blogger jbarry said...

Shauna, dying is not really challenging the system unless you die for a just cause or a rebellion against a radical force, etc.

Fri Oct 27, 08:55:00 AM  
Blogger EmilyH said...

wait a minutie shauna... do you have to die to challenge the system?

Fri Oct 27, 08:56:00 AM  
Blogger chelseah said...

how about if your comment is directed to group 2 then put GROUP 2 at the top.. but if it as a general comment then dont put anything.

Fri Oct 27, 08:56:00 AM  
Blogger Alex_Manning said...

GROUP 1

It does seem like Beatty enjoys literature, and it sort of brings on his downfall. He was to lienient with Montags fascination with them.

Fri Oct 27, 08:56:00 AM  
Blogger KathrynT said...

sarah- I think that Montag says that Beatty wanted to be killed because he didn't put up a fight or stop like someone who wanted to save his life.

Fri Oct 27, 08:56:00 AM  
Blogger shaunam said...

Sounds good

Fri Oct 27, 08:56:00 AM  
Blogger Alex_Manning said...

sounds good

Fri Oct 27, 08:57:00 AM  
Blogger DeclanH said...

I agree with alex. I think Beatty could have acted faster with Montag, but he thought Montag would "come to his senses" and burn it himself.

Fri Oct 27, 08:58:00 AM  
Blogger shaunam said...

NICE POINT KIMMY!!!!

Fri Oct 27, 08:59:00 AM  
Blogger Phillip said...

I think Beatty doesn't realize that Montag will have the courage to kill him.

Fri Oct 27, 09:00:00 AM  
Blogger chelseah said...

elyse~
i think that Montag grew farther apart from burnig things, but I think that him burning Beatty was an act of instinct and first reaction.

Fri Oct 27, 09:01:00 AM  
Blogger jbarry said...

Paige, I think that he has so much adrenaline that his leg just goes away and he does not notice it anymore.

Fri Oct 27, 09:01:00 AM  
Blogger shaunam said...

I agree with Phillip, Beatty really underestimated Montag

Fri Oct 27, 09:01:00 AM  
Blogger jbarry said...

Jess we just put the exact same thing.

Fri Oct 27, 09:02:00 AM  
Blogger EmilyH said...

OHHH nice point Kimmy!

Fri Oct 27, 09:03:00 AM  
Blogger KathrynT said...

Birds!! What is the symbolism of birds both n the book and in real life? What do we picture brds to mean? Why?

Fri Oct 27, 09:03:00 AM  
Blogger christas said...

adriana~
I think that the sleeping pills are just a means of escape for society. They let them kind of be at peace and in their own way, "challenge the system".

Fri Oct 27, 09:04:00 AM  
Blogger Alex_Manning said...

This last part of the book was the most fast paced and interesting....with the running and the flame thrower ( the best part) and the destruction of the green bullet...i also liked the part where Montag forces Faber to turn on all the sprinkers and AC in order for the Hound to not find him.

Fri Oct 27, 09:04:00 AM  
Blogger Alex_Manning said...

I agree w/ Christa

Fri Oct 27, 09:04:00 AM  
Blogger endsleye said...

kjertinl
the injection was procaine

Fri Oct 27, 09:05:00 AM  
Blogger shaunam said...

Kathrynt- I think that birds symbolize different things. Like the phoenix is rebirth and then the raven is like evil and death.

Fri Oct 27, 09:05:00 AM  
Blogger DeclanH said...

if anyone is still wondering, procaine is just another name for novacaine

Fri Oct 27, 09:05:00 AM  
Blogger bawachmu said...

adriana- I don't really agree with christa-I think that the pills are what enfore the system-to challenge this system, you'd have to learn-to feel-to have your own ideas.

Fri Oct 27, 09:06:00 AM  
Blogger chelseah said...

haha thanks declan

Fri Oct 27, 09:06:00 AM  
Blogger Alex_Manning said...

whoa when did brids come into this karthryn?

Fri Oct 27, 09:06:00 AM  
Blogger chelseah said...

what do birds have to do with anything?

Fri Oct 27, 09:07:00 AM  
Blogger christas said...

good point, adriana.

Fri Oct 27, 09:07:00 AM  
Blogger shaunam said...

alexm~ in our conversation

Fri Oct 27, 09:08:00 AM  
Blogger bawachmu said...

alexm- There are many references to birds in the book-and there are also many about the "wings of the books", etc. We are simply analyzing that.

Fri Oct 27, 09:08:00 AM  
Blogger endsleye said...

adriana good point

Fri Oct 27, 09:08:00 AM  
Blogger Alex_Manning said...

YES!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU ADAM!!!!!!! FINALLY A BREAKTHRU

---connor( computerless) agrees too

Fri Oct 27, 09:08:00 AM  
Blogger chelseah said...

adam~
i disagree, i think that pills have a lot of meaning and symbolism, especially of how reliant Mildred is of the parlor walls, pills, etc.

Fri Oct 27, 09:08:00 AM  
Blogger shaunam said...

OK the birds like the phoenix symbolize rebirth like when Montag burnt his house to start over

Fri Oct 27, 09:09:00 AM  
Blogger endsleye said...

a phenoix is also a fire bird

Fri Oct 27, 09:09:00 AM  
Blogger Hannah J said...

ok i have a new question...why do you think Montag was telling Faber to do all that stuff when he was getting ready to run away? Montag told him to rub the doorknobs with alcohol, pack a suitcase with dirty clothes and they also drank whiskey. Why do you think this is?

Fri Oct 27, 09:10:00 AM  
Blogger bawachmu said...

I think the pills are the community's way of fixing problems-being happy. I think they symbolize how ignorant the community is-they know there's a war, but do they care? do they even know how to care?

Fri Oct 27, 09:10:00 AM  
Blogger KathrynT said...

Could war symbolize the challenge that is going on with Montag and the rest of the world? War is declared right as he begins to run aaway to FAber's house and planes alwaays fly over when he talks of the books and with change.

Fri Oct 27, 09:10:00 AM  
Blogger bawachmu said...

hannahj-so that Faber won't get in trouble/burned.

Fri Oct 27, 09:11:00 AM  
Blogger Phillip said...

It was to get rid of Monrag's scent from Faber's house. The suitcase is for montag to change clothes.

Fri Oct 27, 09:11:00 AM  
Blogger Kjerstinl said...

Montag didn't want the Hound to come to Faber's house and kill Faber and he wanted to make sure that the house smelled like him afterwards.

Fri Oct 27, 09:11:00 AM  
Blogger shaunam said...

Hannahj~ So that the Mechanical Hound can't track him down

Fri Oct 27, 09:11:00 AM  
Blogger tanal said...

i agree with chelsea i think that the pills have a lot of symbolism in this book. i think that mildred relies on the pills a lot in this book. Also i have a question when mildred overdosed on the pills and almost died why was montag so depressed and scared but just a little bit later montag was saying how that if mildred died he doesn't think he would cry or anything

Fri Oct 27, 09:11:00 AM  
Blogger christas said...

hannahj~
Montag told Faber to do this so the mechanical hound wouldn't smell his scent on Faber's house, and he is going to wear a bunch of Faber's old clothes to cover his scent so the hound won't be able to track him.

Fri Oct 27, 09:12:00 AM  
Blogger jbarry said...

Nice point about the phoenix shauna!

Fri Oct 27, 09:12:00 AM  
Blogger endsleye said...

hannah
he was telling Faber that stuff so the Hound wont catch Faber too.

Fri Oct 27, 09:13:00 AM  
Blogger jbarry said...

Yea the fie makes everything equal. It makes the books go awat so that some peole cannot be superior to others through knowledge.

Fri Oct 27, 09:14:00 AM  
Blogger shaunam said...

I agree with Josh about the fire

Fri Oct 27, 09:16:00 AM  
Blogger chelseah said...

does it talk about birds in the book, or how did they come up?

Fri Oct 27, 09:16:00 AM  
Blogger jbarry said...

Paige, birds are free to think and fly around, like books, they can think and express whatever they want.

Fri Oct 27, 09:16:00 AM  
Blogger briang said...

Sara, i think Montag lost control, and because the books have caused him to think differently now, he couldn't stand to sit there and listen to them talk like that, so his new mind frame got the best of him and he just came out. I think he said he felt like a fool too.

Fri Oct 27, 09:16:00 AM  
Blogger bawachmu said...

I think that the books are like birds because they sow freedom-happieness-ideas-a dove represents peace(white pigeon=dove, guys), etc.

Fri Oct 27, 09:17:00 AM  
Blogger christas said...

paige~
I think maybe the books are compared to flopping dead birds because they are kind of helpless. The books can't really save themselves, so maybe Bradbury is trying to say that people need to step forward to protect books and knowledge.

Fri Oct 27, 09:17:00 AM  
Blogger Hannah J said...

paige n-I think that books are compared to birds because books are the victims of the situation in this society. They are like innocent things (birds) and really, they never did anything...except have opinions.

Fri Oct 27, 09:17:00 AM  
Blogger jbarry said...

Adriana, not and unfair advantage in our world, but in this world, it is considered unfair to be intellectualy superior and that is the mindset of the people in this book.

Fri Oct 27, 09:18:00 AM  
Blogger Alex_Manning said...

Montag is an ignorant being that doesn't know very much yet... I don't think that Beatty WANTED to die, but I don't think he minds it very much. Beatty I think, thinks along the same line as Montag is now beginning to, but he enjoys burning too much to gove it up...

Fri Oct 27, 09:18:00 AM  
Blogger shaunam said...

Chelseah~ It says like a phoenix is a fire bird and it burns in the fire and then is reborn again. It starts over

Fri Oct 27, 09:18:00 AM  
Blogger endsleye said...

shaunam
kinda like the one in harry potter. it was a phenoix:]

Fri Oct 27, 09:18:00 AM  
Blogger Alex_Manning said...

Who is comparing them to peacful things? I forget..

Fri Oct 27, 09:18:00 AM  
Blogger tanal said...

i think that they keep comparing the books to peaceful things because they keep destroying the books because they are the ones that are making the society unhappy and unpeaceful, so they burn them to keep the society peaceful. i think that the books destroy the peace.

Fri Oct 27, 09:19:00 AM  
Blogger jbarry said...

Paige, birds are compared to books from a standpoint of our modern world, but not to the world in the book. To the world in the book, books are like drugs.

Fri Oct 27, 09:20:00 AM  
Blogger bawachmu said...

THis is what our group is discussing: What does fire represent?

I think that fire is life-we mentioned that these people arn't really alive-is the fire that alive to them? Do they really know life?

Fri Oct 27, 09:20:00 AM  
Blogger shaunam said...

Endsleye! O yeah! I haven't seen that in a LONG time

Fri Oct 27, 09:20:00 AM  
Blogger christas said...

Good point, jess. I would never have thought of that!

Fri Oct 27, 09:20:00 AM  
Blogger Alex_Manning said...

I don't think that the firemen realise the symbolism in the Phoenix. They just use it as a cool symbol, which it is... Phoenixes are pretty awesome. Its too bad they dont really exist.

Fri Oct 27, 09:20:00 AM  
Blogger Phillip said...

Fire is a force that you can't control. Sure we can make, but if a forest fire starts it takes along time to put it out.

Fri Oct 27, 09:21:00 AM  
Blogger Kjerstinl said...

Why did Montag cry when he killed Beatty and he cried when he saw kids who could have killed Clarisse, but he wouldn't have cried if Mildred died?

Fri Oct 27, 09:21:00 AM  
Blogger endsleye said...

Doesn't the phenoix also heal people with there tear drops or is that just in harry potter?

Fri Oct 27, 09:22:00 AM  
Blogger chelseah said...

kjerstin~
i think that he cried for them because he generally cared for them. if mildred would have died, he might have cried, but i dont think there were many feelings for her....

Fri Oct 27, 09:23:00 AM  
Blogger tanal said...

also the phonix is reborn through the ashes so what does it really mean and symbolize in this book. is the pheonix reborn everytime that they burn books and the houses

Fri Oct 27, 09:24:00 AM  
Blogger shaunam said...

Paigen, I think that it is impressive b/c most animals cannot do that without dying

Fri Oct 27, 09:24:00 AM  
Blogger briang said...

It can also heal itself, according to declan.

Fri Oct 27, 09:24:00 AM  
Blogger jbarry said...

I was just thinking that what if Montag gets caught on fire and dies. He would be killed by the thing that was for so long the focus of his life.

Fri Oct 27, 09:25:00 AM  
Blogger Phillip said...

Salamander's can regenerate limbs.

Fri Oct 27, 09:25:00 AM  
Blogger christas said...

kjerstin~
I think that Montag cied when Beatty died because he had worked with him forever and they were kind of "in it together". He cried for Clarisse because he felt that she was so pure and actually cared about him. He wouldn't cry for Mildred because he never really cared for her, and she didn't really care for him. They were both indifferent about their relationship.

Fri Oct 27, 09:25:00 AM  
Blogger jbarry said...

Yea Brian its tears heal things.

Fri Oct 27, 09:25:00 AM  
Blogger shaunam said...

Phillip~ that is really strange

Fri Oct 27, 09:26:00 AM  
Blogger endsleye said...

jess
i think yes

Fri Oct 27, 09:27:00 AM  
Blogger jbarry said...

Jess and obviously they can be in fire for quite some time.

Fri Oct 27, 09:28:00 AM  
Blogger chelseah said...

jess~
me too, i think you can find symolism in almost anything in the book

Fri Oct 27, 09:28:00 AM  
Blogger shaunam said...

Good point Josh!

Fri Oct 27, 09:29:00 AM  
Blogger bawachmu said...

Phillip-that is a nice ffact, but it may sow something---if salamanders can regenerate limbs, are the firemen trying to say something when they use it as their logo? If so, what?

Fri Oct 27, 09:29:00 AM  
Blogger KathrynT said...

hey anna, that's what I was thinking! geez, you stole my idea...

Fri Oct 27, 09:30:00 AM  
Blogger jbarry said...

Jess that connects to what i was saying on the blog because they are being destroyed by the very thing that was their focus for quite some time.

Fri Oct 27, 09:30:00 AM  
Blogger Alex_Manning said...

apparently modern day Phoenixes are







PENGUINS






yeah i know
your amazed

Fri Oct 27, 09:31:00 AM  
Blogger Phillip said...

Wow! Penguins!

Fri Oct 27, 09:31:00 AM  
Blogger Truman C. said...

Well the pheonix's symbol is that the pheonix burns and is rebirthed. Men are the same way in that we make the same mistakes over and over again and must rebuild after it. Granger is mad becuase we have one thing the bird does not and that is the ability to learn from our mistakes.

Sun Apr 13, 08:10:00 AM  
Blogger Truman C. said...

Oh and i never thought about the salamander that was good whoever brought it up!

Sun Apr 13, 08:11:00 AM  

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