Warnings that the author is trying to get across

I believe that this book can be a warning of what could actually happen far in the future. Slowly in our world, individual’s freedoms are being taken away. Many of these freedoms being taken away are due to the ‘Patriot Act.’ The patriot act takes away our freedoms, and can intrude on our private life. This book could be a warning of how something such as the ‘Patriot Act’ can escalate and eventually turn into something way more severe, eventually, possibly turning the world into what has happened to the world in the book, a dystopian world. The dystopian world is run by an overpowering government which creates an awful place for a society to live in. This book shows what could happen to our world far into the future, and if our freedoms continue to be taken away, one day the world will become a dystopia.

Parallels between the world of the book and our world

This book shows parallels between our world and the future, dystopian world of Fahrenheit 451. In the book, the government tries to erase the past by having firemen burn books. They believe that by burning books, there will be less evidence of the past and people won’t know how things used to be. So they burn all the written evidence, and as more and more books are burnt, people will slowly know less and less information of the past, and when the point comes, they the society knows nothing about the past, the government will be able to have stricter control of everyone. Because if people know more about the past, and the government tries to take stricter control, there will be more chance of an outbreak among the society against the government. Like I said in the previous paragraph, the patriot act can escalate into what may someday be a world similar to the dystopia in the book. Now the government in our world and get our bank records, internet records, tap into our private phone calls, and even randomly search us. All of these are threats of our personal freedom which we are supposed to have in our nation. Our freedom is being slowly taken away, and can one day be gone. This is a parallel to the book, the fact that our personal freedom is being taken away to the point that the world can possible end up as a dystopia.

Important ideas and learning from your classmates

Doing the blogs was definitely very helpful. With there being pages posted by other classmates, on the same book, allow you to get a better understanding of different ideas which help reinforce your own thoughts for postings and other activities based on the book. Reading classmate’s blogs, which have similar ideas as yours, helps you compare differences and similarities between your thoughts, and helps you get a deeper understanding of things. Also, if while reading the book, something isn’t clear, you can go on the blog and read someone’s posting to help clarify things for you.

Thoughts on related blogs

While reading other people's blogs on Fahrenheit 451, I found Meaghan's thoughts to be similar to mine on the concept of how the society doesn't know the truth behind the government. Both of our postings explained how the government hired the fire men to burn all the books in order to hide everything that happened in the past, so people wouldn't know the reality of their present and how things hadn't always been so much of a dystopia. Books circulating around can cause a leek of information, which for the present government would cause chaos amongst everyone. Here is Meaghan's Posting.

How do they not know?

Reading the book Fahrenheit 451 You wonder how the people are so unaware of the reality of their society. Well In Fahrenheit 451 the answer is easy. Well the fire men are supposed to burn the books to erase the past and hide all information about the way things used to be. Over time, as more information is destroyed, and less people know know about the past, the less likely it would be for people to realize the reality of their present society. This is why in the book, that such a huge deal is made about the book that Guy Montag took. The goal of the government is to destroy everything from the past, and Guy, having the book, could cause a leak of information. Thats how the government strategically, hides the past, the prevent the society from knowing too much.

Part 2: Fahrenheit 451

Reading the second part of Fahrenheit 451, there were a couple things i didn't understand. First, It was talking about the parlor, "He stared at the parlor that was dead and gray as the waters of an ocean that might teem with life is they switched on the electric sun. Im not exactly sure what the parlor was, but all i could think of was just a room with nobody in it, but thinking that somone might walk in at any miniut. There was another quote i didn't understand. "I saw the damnedest snake in the world the other night. It was dead but it was alive. It could see but it couldn't see. You want to see that snake? It's at Emergency Hospital where they filed a report on all the junk the snake got aout of you!" I wasn't sure what this snake was suposed to be symbolizing.

I like how descriptions are heavy with symbolizing, and characterizing, however, many times they can be difficult to understand. Most of the time it requires you to read a few pages ahead to realize what a cirtain descriptive piece is talking about. Though many times difficult, I can always eventualy figure out what is being said.

The truth Guy Montag doesn't know

In the begining of the book Fahrenheit 451, when guy met Clarisse, he was told a couple things which he didn't beleive. Guy, thought that his job was always the same, he thought that firemen always were used to start fires instead of putting them out. He was always told that houses were always fire proof, so there was no need for people to put fires out, however, Clarisse tried to tell him that firemen were actualy once used to put fires out and that houses wern't always fireproof.

Guy, couldn't beleive the words Clarisse said, he couldn't accept that she told the truth, becuase all his life he was told a lie, which he firmly beleived as the truth. He also took offence to this because he felt his job was highly important and that what he did was vital to the community. At some point in the story, Guy will realize what Clarisse was telling the truth, and that what he thought his whole life was simply a lie.