F.451 Entry 10 pgs150-160

Summarize: Granger explains how the men around him are books. They have memorized entire books on a variety of subjects. They aim to keep this knowledge un their own minds because paper & film is too easily destroyed or found. He also cautions Montag on the dangers of feelings of individual supiority, saying that if you forget you are just one part of a bigger picture, it can lead to death by hoping to attempt some sort of recruitment. He believes that by talking to only select people the knowledge will not be diluted and only people who come to their 'secret society' by themselves with free will, will truly learn or be able to change anything. Granger hopes that one day they will be able to permanently write down the knowledge in thier heads, until then, it is best to keep it a secret. Granger then moves onto talking about how the world is shaped by people. Shaped meaning changed somehow, altered, for better or for worse. This ties in with his hope that books will one day be important by thier actions in memorizing them. Planes fly overhead and they bomb the city from which Montag just came. He thinks about his wife, Clarrise, and Faber, hoping all are not dead. He focuses in on his wife because she was the only one still in the city. He then decides that someday he will come back to the ruins of this city and visit. He walks away towards the largely unkown.

Discuss: This first part of this whole section is the author taling about his views on subjects like death and knowledge. Not first hand, but through Grnager. Talking about how paper and video are unreliable might be trying to tell the readers to always look for yourself because the information just being on a piece of paper doesn't make it accurate. Then Montag and Granger discuss the way the world is shaped. How Granger believes it to be shaped is saying that just because we don't know it, but we change something else, someone else might come upon that change and make a bigger change. So we are all effecting each other in sometime oblvious sometimes not, ways. The last part of the conclusion is just wrapping the story up, with Montag coming to a sort of peace about Mildred.

Literary Elements:
Allusions - All of the author's names mentioned thoughout the pages we read.
                  The coat of a thousand colors, allusion to the Christian bible.
                  The paragraph two before last that talks about a tree, is referencing to the bible.
Irony - The sane people, all warm and cozy inside their perfect houses & lives, ended up dying, while hobos in a wild forest are still alive and well.
           They also drove Montag out of the city to protect themselves, while it was really protecting Montag from being blown to bits.
Symbols - The forest was a symbol for the unknown and how the men were venturing into it.

F.451 Vocab #5

Convoluted - adj. - extremely complex and difficult to follow
The teachers train of thought was convoluted.
Perpetual - adj. - never ending or changing
The woman was in perpetual motion, never seeming to stop for anything like food or water during the day.
Beatific - adj. - blissfully happy
The gay man way beatific after a large shopping spree.
Torrent - noun - a strong and fast-moving stream of water or other liquid, rapid
The feminist teacher let out a torrent of angry words when he heard about the dress code, which required girls to wear skirts.
Invigorate - verb - give strength or energy to
The morning cup of coffe invigorated the tired, zombie like college student.
Perfunctory - adj. - an action carried out with minimum effort/or caring
The perfunctory attitude of a bored office worker is depressing.
Insidious - adj. - proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effect
The insidious plan was brilliant, it strerched over years,  working slowly but effectively.
Skepticism - noun - doubt of opinions, views, facts
The skepticism was obvious in the teachers voice when he replied, "You're going to build a time-traveling machine for the science fair."
Suffused - verb - gradually spread through or over
The leftover soup in the container suffused through the backpack, after escaping through a small hole in it's prison.

F.451 pgs 100-110

Summarize: A woman starts crying because of the poetry Montag read her, not understanding why she was crying. Another woman accuses Montag of just being a nasty man, trouble. Montag retaliates and tells her to get out of his house and go home and think about what a terrible person she is. Faber assures him that everyone makes mistakes, and Montag believes what Faber tells him. Montag returns to work andis engaged in a physical and mental game of poker with Beatty. Beatty sort of quizes Montag about what happened giving his opinions on books and such. They get an alarm to go set a fire and hurry to that house with Beatty driving. WHen they arrive at the house it is actually Mintag's house.

Discuss: In the begining Montag is a little overbearing with this new information about the world and does not go about sharing in the right way. The women were the wrong people to tell because they were so brainwashed, it probably didn't even pass through their thick skulls. We see that Montag is still in his free-thinking infancy because he just placidly accepts what Faber has to say. The poker match between Montag and Beatty is showing just how clever, if misguided, Beatty is. He can pretty much strip down Montags defenses and almost bend him to his will. Them arriving Montag's home in the end shows that keeping his new found freedom, job choice, and home life seperate is impossible.


Literary Elements:
Symbols - Beatty driving shows that he is actually in control of the situation, not Mantag.
                  The use of spider as a description when writing about the men symolizes how they are about to consume a life.
Irony - Situational, Ms. Bowels is preeching about how horrible Montag is when being hateful herself.

F. 451 Dover Beach

Bradbury uses Dover Beach because it is an acurate representation on the story and Montag's life. The first Beach describing part represents his ignorance in the begining. It also show how eager he was to share his so called knowledge about his perfect happiness in life, as shown by the line /Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!/. Once he comes to look at the world more clearly, he begins to see the world around him. Thanks to the lack of knowledge, the loss of religion in the poem, the world is unknowinly terrible, in both Montag's and the author of this poems view.

F. 451 Entry 9 pgs 90-100

Summarize: Montag goes to the bank then catches a ride home on the subway, all the while Faber speaks to him about the war, and false propaganda. Faber also says that he will talk to him even in Montags sleep because Faber needs very little and sometimes word will stick in a sleeping mind. Montag returns home and is eating supper when he hears the obnoxius sound of Mildred and her friends. In the parlor the walls are constantly changing scenes and sounds, randomly. Montag turns the switch parlor walls off, leaving some very annoyed women. Montag and the women talk about their husbands and the new 'quick' war. He reminisces about how the woman's faces are like churches, beautiful but meaningless in the end. He tries to talk with them again, asking them about their children. One lady responds with a furiously glad, I have none, and the other woman talks about their children as if they were objects, not people. Despite Faber's warning Montag begins to read them some poetry, then a ways through tries to cover it up with Mildred, saying firemen are allowed a book a year to remind them of the utter silliness of them.


Discuss: Faber talking about false propaganda is a way of showing how far the government, even back then when Bradbury wrote the book, would go to fool the people. The scene that happens between Montag and the women is mainly a way to show how this future society views the world, and the effects their view. Children and their parents have no relationship, spouses, already demonstrated by MIldred and Montag, have zero affection. In the end, he wanted to try and talk some sense into them, by means of poetry, and since they didn't want to know, they choose to close their ears.


Literary Elements:
Simile - "...swimming between the clouds, like enemy disks"
              "...like a native fleeing an eruption of Mt. Vesuvius." 
Allusion - Montag talking about the church and angels within he once visited.
                  The poem about the Sea of Faith.
Irony - The fact that the women are so blasé about their own children, when usually the opposite is true in real life.
            When the women say a 'quick war', wars always are long, even in the lasting affects.
            How unconcerned they are about their husbands in war, same a children.

F. 451 Entry #8 pgs 80-90

Summarize: Montag arrives at Professor Faber's home. They briefly speak about the book Montag brought with him, the bible. Faber talks about Montag's personality, calling him a hopeless romantic. Faber does a lot of speaking revolving around why books are important, and targeted by the government. He talks in great detail about his findings on what a educational book truly is, defining it as one that has texture. They ask questions and people who only want the pleasure of life are scared to look deeper and seek out any form of there own truth. Faber also comments that with books, you can take your time, analyze them, & play God with them. They speak about plans to start the crumbling of their society. Faber is scared and  refuses to try and take part, but Montag forces him to help. Just as Montag is about to leave, Faber speaks up. He shows Montag an ear piece/radio set, and gives the receiving earpiece/half to him telling Montag that way he can help, but still cover his own butt.

Discuss: The bible purpose is to lead people to believe in a certain thing. Having Faber cling to it so desperately, when Montag threatened the book, says that people look for a reason any reason to hold on, to the past and safely known. However he goes on to ignore this and preaches about the values of a good information book. He may make valid points but, he even admits it, no matter how much talk goes on, the choice to admit to yourself whats wrong or right and how you deal with it is completely your own.


Literary Elements:
Allusions - 'Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.' refers to a comment made to a powerful and if we gather right, rather arrogant, Roman general.
"Men quoting Milton" part, refers to philosophers.
Foreshadow - 'Remember, Caesar...' could be one because, in the end, Caesar died by betrayal.
Irony - Even though Faber wants change, he doesn't want it bad enough to risk his own neck.
Metaphor - The whole spiel by Faber on what books are and how to judge the authors skill, it talks about books being like skin.

F.451 Entry 7 pgs 70-80

Summarize: Montag and Mildred read through some of the books, trying to make sense of it. Montag looks at the world around him and remembers a professor who once talked to him. The man spoke with Montag about poetry. Montag takes another look at the bible. He gets on a train and the speakers on the train play stupid commercial over and over and over again. Montag tries to think about other things. This train takes him to Faber's , the professor, home.

Discuss: The train shows just how tamed people are, not even becoming angry with the boring, repetitive commercial thing. Montag is finally seeking out where he believes the truth to be found. Faber may or may not be the "answer" to Montag's new found curiosity. However, I believe this will be an important step in the path to the truth that Montag wants to find.

Literary Elements:
 Irony - When Mildred talks about her family being people. It is ironic because they are not actually real people, only imitations.
Simile - "He stared into a the parlor that was dead and gray as the..."

F.451 Entry 5 pgs 60-70

Summarize: Beatty guesses Montag has a book. He shows and tells Mildred about the books he has collected in secret. They begin to read over all the books, Montag trying to make sense of them, Mildred just trying to placate Montag.

Discuss: The fact that Montag has had books hidden in the house for years might show that even when people are "happy" some may be, in the back of their minds, questioning about anything. Because as humans, we are never satisfied completely, we will always desire more, and knowledge is a form of more. We realize just how mindless Mildred is, she cannot even begin to try and look at the situation from Montag's point of view. Plus, she doesn't even stand up for what she wants to do with any force, she just cries.

Literary Elements:
Symbols: Montags halting speech when reading may represent the difficulty of trying to begin the questioning phase and end the complacency rut.

F451 Entry 4 pgs 40-50

Summarize:We find out Beatty is more knowledgeable than previously mentioned. Montag realizes both himself and his wife dont know each other at all like they are strangers. When Montag talks with Mildred he finds out she believes that Clarisse died by being run over by a car. Montag is sick the next morning and Mildred barely even cares.

Discuss: These pages are all about how the relationship between Montag and Mildred is not there. She tells him nothing and is a useless waste of space. Her only redeeming quality is making Montag question everything. Perhaps this is a representation or description of the whole society, no love, or warmth.

Literary Elements:
Symbol - When Montag describes Mildred as a praying mantis, as the females est their mates, just as Mildred is destroying both of them.
Irony - Situational? How both Mildred and Montag refer to Mildreds parlor character people as family and rejoices when "speaking with them, but can't spare Montag, a real live family member, the time of day.
Foreshadow - When we find out that Beatty knows more than was expected

Characters:
 Black - Smokes a lot
Stoneman - Distracted easily/listens, drives the truck

F. 451 Entry #3 pgs30-40

Summarize: Clarrise is gone, Montag tries to talk to the other firemen about thinking and ideas. When the foremen go to a house they discover a woman still inside, ruining there usual routine. Montag steals a book. This woman lights herself and her books on fire, commiting suicide and trying to start a revolution.

Discuss: Since Clarrise leaves Montag must now fill the thinking void that she opened up in him. When he steals a book he commits his first true act of rebellion. This book may make hime eager to read other books. Montag begins to feel guilt at burning books because of the woman.

Literary Elements:
Alusion - When the woman says "Play the man, master Ridley...ect" allusion to Hugh Laimer, a Protestant matyr. Means to start a revolution.
Symbol: The women who killed herself was a symbol that people will do incredible things when challeneged and as a sort of omen for change. The fact that she remained nameless is perhaps a representation that anyone can start a revolution, it doesn't have to be someone with great power.

Characters: Beatty, we were introduced to him in pgs 20-30 not actually in pgs30-40. He is a man with no questions to ask, completely rational.
An unnamed woman, she is a great reader, couragous, and believes in books

F 451 Entry 2, PG 10-20

Summarize: Montag finds his wife in bed. She attempted to kill herself on sleeping pills. He call the emergency room and men come and clean her system of the 30 or so sleeping pills she took. We find out that a lot of people try to kill themselves every night in this city. Mildred, Montag's wife, is an unimaginative, boring, and delusional person.

Discuss: Montag begins to realize the full extent of Clarrise's specialness. He also starts to question himself. The readers see the relationship between Montag and Mildred, which is an unhappy one, especially now that Montag is thinking.

Literary Elements:
Allusion- He talked to a man in a park one day..., When the man working the stomache pump says "starting a few years ago"
Situational Irony - His feeling that the bedroom was like a crypt
Dramatic Irony - When they are talking about the play and Mildred describes her part as fun.
Symbol- When Mildred attempts suicide that represents self induced ignorance.

Characters:  Mildred- She is in denial about killing herself and believes that what is popular is fun.

Fahrenheit 451, Entry #1 pgs3-10

Summarize: A man who burns books for a living meets a girl that asks questions about the world and society. She never answers his questions completely and he begins to get uncomfortable because of his own thoughts.

Discuss: I believe that, following the books theme, the girl represents books and knowledge while the man represents the ignorance that comes by being completely satisyfed and unchalleneged.

Literary Elements:
Situational Irony- The fact that a man who has a life threatening job is almost scared by a girl not even out of highs school.
Allusion - When the girl speaks of a place & time when firemen put fires out and cars were slow.
Symbols - 451 F is the temperature at which paper combusts. Salamander represents the ability to be foreproof and pass through flames unharmed. Also known to be extremely poisonus; so perhaps this represents the vileness in Montags job. Pheonix represents immortality.
Characters - Montag; happy, misses the small things in life, uncomfortable with questioning
                    Clarrise; odd, has endless questions

Vocab 4 - F. 451

Pedantry- n - person who is excessively concerned with minor details & rules or with displaying academic learning.
The honor student was a pedantry.
Odious - adj - extremely unpleasant; repulsive.
The odious smell wafting from the room made me gag.
Luxuriant - adj - rich and profuse in growth; lush
Luxuriant fur is a great turn on in the animal kingdom.
Dictum - n - a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source
Every dictum from the your parents is important. Sometimes. 
Cacophony - n - a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds
The stinking pit of filth known as a the local pub was a cacophony of odd sounds and animalistic gunts.
Proclivity - n - a tendency to choose or do something regularly
AJ's proclivity to dress like a slob was not very attractive, and did nothing to woo the females.
Proboscis - n - the nose of a mammal, esp. when it is long and mobile,
Stratum - n -  a layer or a series of layers of rock in the
Mausoleum - n - a building holding tomb/s, usually large & grand
The great general is held in the war hero mausoleum forever.
Marionette - n - a puppet worked from above by strings attached to its limbs
The possessed marionette puppet vigorously attacked the masses with godawful voices.
Phoenix - n - a unique bird that lived for five or six centuries in the  desert, after this time burning itself & rising from the ashes with renewed youth
The phoenix was very livelyafter being reborn from ashes for the, 4,023,789,293,100,000,113th time.

Vocab 3 - 10/4/10

Poignant - adj - evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret
The story on the news about twelve kids getting murdered was poignant.
Undulations - noun - wavelike motions/shape
The rippling muscle on the wrestlers back were undulations in shape md movement.
Appease - vb - pacify or placate
To appease me with flowers after attempting to murder my father would be foolhardy!
Ensued -vb - happen or occur afterward or as a result
After the the death of beloved King Chamillon, sadness ensued.
Conjectural - based on or involving conjecture(an opinion formed on the basis of incomplete information)
The conjectural alien thought all humans were amazing creatures.
Apathy - noun - lack of interest, enthusiasm or concern
Halley's apathy towards math was not unnoticed by her Algebra 2 teacher.
Imperceptible - adj - impossible to perceive(be aware of)
Wanting to killing yourself was imperceptible to the disgustingly optimistic counselor.
Imperative - adj - vital importance; crucial
It was imperative that the only heir of the King not be murdered.
Patricide - noun - killing of one's father
Lily was accused of patricide.

Descriptions For Split Cherry Tree

Professor Herbert: Big Man, grey hair, grey suit
Pa (Luster) Sexton: overalls, big boots, sheepskin coat, fraying black hat, big, brown skinned, hard, gun holster, weather-beaten face, easily redden face, long legs
Dave Sexton: adult sized, too big to whip
Ma Sexton: FLAT CHARACTER NO DESCRIPTION
Farm: Lots of animals, well, barn, hills
Countryside: windy, hills, white, March, spring
School: black boards, windows, hardwood floors, science lab, playground

Examples of Dialect: chipyard, nohow, remedy things, larnin’, a-larruped ‘im with a withe
Similes: shaking like a leaf,
Metaphors: get too onery for th’ buzzards to smell, 

1st person

Vocab 2 - 9/14/10

Preclude - vb - prevent from happening; make impossible
 The love of peace precluded adoration of guns.
Rapt - adj - completely fascinated by what one is seeing or hearing
Julian's rapt expression showed on his visage while listening to the audio book.
Indulgently - adv - having or indicating a reafiness or over-readiness to be generous or lenient with someone
Indulgently shooting the passengers on board the ship caused Captain Goganheim laughed maniacally.
Banish - vb - send someone away from a country or place as an official punishment
Henry was banished from the living room after spilling chocolate milk on the floor twice.
Fetter - noun/vb - a chain or manacle used to restrain a prisoner, usually placed around the ankle
Jono was fettered to the cement brick then thrown in the river.
Virtuoso - noun - a person highly skilled in music or another artistic pursuit
The small child is no virtuoso, he can't even play an instrument.
Impunity - noun - exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action
The human's impunity stemmed from the fact she was filthy rich.
Appropriation - noun - the action of taking something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission
The robbers' appropriation of the taxi was not the smartest idea, as the yellow car had a trackable GPS system.
Accost - vb - approach and adress someone boldly or aggressively, usually with harmful intent
Monique accosted Jalay after school for taking her favorite seat in the lunchroom.
Reprehensible - adj - deserving censure or condemnation
It was reprehensible when Gavia put tacks in the teacher's chair.
Implore - vb - beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something
I implore you to try my grandmothers spicy onion fish soup, it's truly delicious.

Continuation of: The Lady or the Tiger?

 Moving her hand to the right was not the actual answer she had chosen to give. The semi-barbaric princess had always suffered from muscle spasms and occasional facial paralysis. Originally her scheme was as follows: Stab her father with a knife concealed among her many petticoats, declare herself ruler of the kingdom, then marry the peasant. But, as with most unsavory and dire situations, every possible part goes awry. As the muscle spasm ended her lover had already opened the door, revealing the beautiful lady. Furious would only begin to describe the fiery emotion that raged within her. For the princess had decided her love was not reciprocating the same feelings as she any longer, so it was time to show him who was boss. 

However dear readers, do not think her abysmally cruel, as she was not actually sentencing her lover to permanent sleep. The peasant, Lucos, was a tiger tamer by trade and often could be found brutally whipping tigers into submission for the semi-barbaric king’s amusement. Thus the king’s daughter knew Lucos would conquer the tiger by pure force of will, though with no small amount of effort. After concluding that the momentous task was possible, she believed herself to be both fair and serving both their interests. Whatever the intentions behind her final decision, the outcome was the opposite of the desired path.

Out walked the lady in all her rosy-cheeked, lace-clad wedding dress splendor. The peasant gave a mighty whoop of happiness and swept up the maiden in his arms, effectively earning the hatred of Princess Irene forever. The two were married on the spot, with much pomp and to-do about the ceremony. Cheers and parties including the whole kingdom could be heard well into the following day. Only one creature in all the land did not utter a single sound of joy, her only feature was a sullen disposition.

The next day the peasant snuck into the great castle to visit Irene. She was upset with him for consenting to marry the beautiful lady but forgave him after seeing the truly sorry look on his handsome face. They swore to meet twice a month to continue their love. As the years passed Lucos forgot about the bi-monthly appointments more. He began to love his wife with an even greater passion than his affection for Irene ever was. He visited her less and less frequently until the visits stopped completely. As he drew away, the king’s daughter became a shadow of her former self, eating naught but a bite of cake a day or a sip of water. As with most Fadeings people forget all about the person who was once alive and well. Memories begin to disappear and humans get rather suspicious if only one remembers an event or person. One day she was seen no longer in the castle, nor a peep heard from her chambers. After becoming a being stuck in the shadows between life and death, the princess did the only rational thing to do; haunt the person who caused the immense emotional pain that lead to her demise. 

Lucos was quite old at the time this began; his sixtieth birthday was upon him in naught but three months. As these were the semi-barbaric times when it was considered a long life to reach your thirty-fifth birthday, no one was surprised when he died of a sudden heart attack. It was caused by a simple pan falling to the ground, but only thanks to none other than a rather vengeful ghost.