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.