Question 8) Entry of your choice.
This book was boring and it was like a nightmare when I first read it. So I had to read it again because I didn’t know anything about the story and had too many things I didn’t understand. The second time I read this book was much interesting and did a lot of help to finish this homework. I marked some passages that I thought was important and had a same feeling as it. There are several passages that I particularly want to tell to the people. Assuming the real world we are living has the same corrupted condition of the society in this book, it is depressing to realize the following quotes. They are “No one has time any more for anyone else.”, “It’s been a long time since anyone cared enough to ask”, “There was a long time ago when they had things different. They believed in responsibility.”, “Nobody listens anymore.” They all talk about how the corruption of the society influenced and how it shows to individual people. The characters’ distressed confess toward it was sincere. If it is really happening now somewhere, and soon the community we live would be like it is in the book, it would be sad.
This book was hard to read because I read it without thinking anything. However as I reread it with interest to know what the author wanted to say to us, I could find the authors purpose easily. He wanted to acknowledge to the readers that books are important and relates a lot to the politics. To wrap up, I think the particular community’s development and its quality of people’s living depend a lot on whether and how much people use them to their community, and how much they are interested and caring for their community.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Question #7
Question 7) Are there any settings in this novel which you have found to be beautiful? Or disturbing? Or memorable? Describe these settings and comment on why they were meaningful to you.
In this book, in the harsh corrupted society, the most beautifully set was the character who finds his way to enhance the world by books. It was Montag and his new friends: Clarisse, Faber, and the Book Community who lead him to it. But most of Montag’s helping friends, Clarisse had the most beautiful mind, so beautiful that she persuaded a man with a job of a fireman. Of course Montag was already different form other firemen, but Clarisse’s ability to seek truth behind all those reality, the world she was living in was rotten, and knowing that Montag is different was amazing. Her thinking was very pure and innocent, and she was much like a child than a teenager girl. She was even purer than a child in our real society, and it was like seeing a flower in a landfill.
A memorable setting to me was that there were people who wanted to read book, who possessed them secretly even if they were in danger. A woman also died burning with her books and shocked Montag; it was a big cause to Montag to learn to read books. She looked desperate, and she was an example of people who protested their community. In addition, there were Book People remaining, and they seemed they were not just an ordinary book community. Montag and the Book People camped and moved to hide from the police to discuss and read the books. It was a quite good ending because Montag met the Book People and he recalled the passage from a book he had forgotten in his mind. They enabled him to recall it.
In this book, in the harsh corrupted society, the most beautifully set was the character who finds his way to enhance the world by books. It was Montag and his new friends: Clarisse, Faber, and the Book Community who lead him to it. But most of Montag’s helping friends, Clarisse had the most beautiful mind, so beautiful that she persuaded a man with a job of a fireman. Of course Montag was already different form other firemen, but Clarisse’s ability to seek truth behind all those reality, the world she was living in was rotten, and knowing that Montag is different was amazing. Her thinking was very pure and innocent, and she was much like a child than a teenager girl. She was even purer than a child in our real society, and it was like seeing a flower in a landfill.
A memorable setting to me was that there were people who wanted to read book, who possessed them secretly even if they were in danger. A woman also died burning with her books and shocked Montag; it was a big cause to Montag to learn to read books. She looked desperate, and she was an example of people who protested their community. In addition, there were Book People remaining, and they seemed they were not just an ordinary book community. Montag and the Book People camped and moved to hide from the police to discuss and read the books. It was a quite good ending because Montag met the Book People and he recalled the passage from a book he had forgotten in his mind. They enabled him to recall it.
Question #6
Question 6) Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into on of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.
I chose my passage form quotes of Faber in page 89, when Faber tells Montag about newspapers: “……I remember the newspapers dying like huge moths. No one wanted them back. No one missed them. And then the Government, seeing how advantageous it was to have people reading only about passionate lips and the fist in the stomach, circled the situation with your fire-eaters.……” In this passage, Faber talks about how newspapers were started to unpublished along with books. This is significant to me and also to other people, especially the Governors. Faber is right about the Government and the people. I can see that the Government’s not publishing the newspapers is initially by citizen’s unconcern toward to it and it is their fault that they gave the Government a chance to spoil their community easier, and more severely. Also, it shows that it was also the citizens’ responsibility to the communities’ corruption, not to mention the Government’s foolishness. In my opinion, governors have to be a model to the citizens and they are the people who have to suggest the pattern of thinking and living to them, but they are not doing like they are expected. It is truly happening now in some countries, and sadly, Korea is one of those countries. I hope that other people who read this book feel the same way as I do, and we should be aware that if we do not show that we care about that Government and their political act and we should keep interfere to their attitude. It is possible that a similar thing could happen to us these days.
I chose my passage form quotes of Faber in page 89, when Faber tells Montag about newspapers: “……I remember the newspapers dying like huge moths. No one wanted them back. No one missed them. And then the Government, seeing how advantageous it was to have people reading only about passionate lips and the fist in the stomach, circled the situation with your fire-eaters.……” In this passage, Faber talks about how newspapers were started to unpublished along with books. This is significant to me and also to other people, especially the Governors. Faber is right about the Government and the people. I can see that the Government’s not publishing the newspapers is initially by citizen’s unconcern toward to it and it is their fault that they gave the Government a chance to spoil their community easier, and more severely. Also, it shows that it was also the citizens’ responsibility to the communities’ corruption, not to mention the Government’s foolishness. In my opinion, governors have to be a model to the citizens and they are the people who have to suggest the pattern of thinking and living to them, but they are not doing like they are expected. It is truly happening now in some countries, and sadly, Korea is one of those countries. I hope that other people who read this book feel the same way as I do, and we should be aware that if we do not show that we care about that Government and their political act and we should keep interfere to their attitude. It is possible that a similar thing could happen to us these days.
Question #5
Question 5) What is the mood of this novel? Do you find this novel saddens you in any way? Why?
The mood of this novel is dark and sordid because it shows the governments’ irregularities and corruption and the citizens don’t think about what is going on and they don’t even care about it. I find this novel saddens me because ordinary people, citizens, are also corrupted; almost losing their ability to think are care about other people and things, no one having any time for anyone else, no one listens to anyone-they just mind their own businesses. The people in this story don’t know how to interfere or what interference means. Also, because people do not care or interest in others, the government got more relief that there is no one to criticize them even if they lead the nation poorly, and their state of mind of doing nothing but caring themselves lead to citizens not to read the books. The books and newspapers were gone is this story all because the government’s selfishness and fools that do not wanting or trying to fight them. It is sad that people are corrupted as they could be, and without books, the world without books and newspapers is messed up at the fact that there is nothing that lodges the social problem. After all, there are too much murdering and cheating in the society. I remember Clarisse mentioning to Montag that her friends killing each other, shooting, dying with car wreck, and people had to drive a car so fast, that driving slowly became illegal, which is very opposite to now. To think about it, I realized again how and why books are important and they could not be perished as long as people’s society lasts.
The mood of this novel is dark and sordid because it shows the governments’ irregularities and corruption and the citizens don’t think about what is going on and they don’t even care about it. I find this novel saddens me because ordinary people, citizens, are also corrupted; almost losing their ability to think are care about other people and things, no one having any time for anyone else, no one listens to anyone-they just mind their own businesses. The people in this story don’t know how to interfere or what interference means. Also, because people do not care or interest in others, the government got more relief that there is no one to criticize them even if they lead the nation poorly, and their state of mind of doing nothing but caring themselves lead to citizens not to read the books. The books and newspapers were gone is this story all because the government’s selfishness and fools that do not wanting or trying to fight them. It is sad that people are corrupted as they could be, and without books, the world without books and newspapers is messed up at the fact that there is nothing that lodges the social problem. After all, there are too much murdering and cheating in the society. I remember Clarisse mentioning to Montag that her friends killing each other, shooting, dying with car wreck, and people had to drive a car so fast, that driving slowly became illegal, which is very opposite to now. To think about it, I realized again how and why books are important and they could not be perished as long as people’s society lasts.
Question #4
Question 4) What is the climax of this novel? What happens? How do the events of this novel make you feel?
The climax of this book is the part when Montag brings home the book from doing his job and starts to think deeply about it, and makes up his mind to study reading and understanding it with the help of Faber. Beatty tries to persuade him but Montag refuses and risks to lose his job or even worse, arrested to study more of it. He has some hardship toward studying them, but he still tries to know what the book was saying. He had to hide, run off, and be almost killed to find his answer. The events were steady and not changing much. It is generally a story of a man trying to find the answer to the past and risking a lot of obstacles such as the government, his job, and the ‘wall’ for it. Montag goes through a lot of disturbance by Captain Beatty, some neighbors, his wife, and himself.
It was the most interesting part when Montag was running away from police trying to survive and find his way to live rest of his life without any disturbance of government and the society he used to live. I feel that in this part, Montag is desperate to find out what he is looking for, the ultimate reason for his work, and never giving up. I feel that it is sad and pathetic, in one way that a person has to risk all the danger to save the society from getting into deeper and severer corruption. To prove the past and enhance the quality of depressed society which was also a result of men, there was Montag and some other people trying to protest to the Government’s act.
The climax of this book is the part when Montag brings home the book from doing his job and starts to think deeply about it, and makes up his mind to study reading and understanding it with the help of Faber. Beatty tries to persuade him but Montag refuses and risks to lose his job or even worse, arrested to study more of it. He has some hardship toward studying them, but he still tries to know what the book was saying. He had to hide, run off, and be almost killed to find his answer. The events were steady and not changing much. It is generally a story of a man trying to find the answer to the past and risking a lot of obstacles such as the government, his job, and the ‘wall’ for it. Montag goes through a lot of disturbance by Captain Beatty, some neighbors, his wife, and himself.
It was the most interesting part when Montag was running away from police trying to survive and find his way to live rest of his life without any disturbance of government and the society he used to live. I feel that in this part, Montag is desperate to find out what he is looking for, the ultimate reason for his work, and never giving up. I feel that it is sad and pathetic, in one way that a person has to risk all the danger to save the society from getting into deeper and severer corruption. To prove the past and enhance the quality of depressed society which was also a result of men, there was Montag and some other people trying to protest to the Government’s act.
Question #3
Question 3) Who are the main characters in the novel? Do you like them? Why or why not? What is special about them? What do they reveal about the universal human experience?
Guy Montag is a protagonist in this book. Unlike other people, and unlike other firemen, even if he has a job of a fireman, he starts to get interested in books, and starts to put political problems in his point of view and judge them. He takes some books from other peoples’ houses he was setting on fire, and read them, and study. Faber who used to be a professor helps him study and understand the past, the literatures and the politics that are held that same time they are living. He gives introductions to Montag to know more. I liked Montag as I read this book because not only because he was different from others or wanting to know about the books, but also he tried hard and always doing his best by risking to lose his job and being caught to the police and go to jail. He sincerely wanted to know what was like in the past and was trying to defend the society of being more dreadful and ironic. Also, I liked Clarisse who led Montag to get interested in books. She knew that he was different, and was pure, innocent, and always saw matters or objects around her positively. She thought positively, and she was always observing them deeply even if they were so obvious and was no wonder to ordinary people. Both Montag and Clarisse wanted to know about the past, they were always curious and trying to figure out the universal human quality and the society’s quality. By book, they were heading to a study for general thoughts of human in their society in the past which was close to the universal human experiences.
Guy Montag is a protagonist in this book. Unlike other people, and unlike other firemen, even if he has a job of a fireman, he starts to get interested in books, and starts to put political problems in his point of view and judge them. He takes some books from other peoples’ houses he was setting on fire, and read them, and study. Faber who used to be a professor helps him study and understand the past, the literatures and the politics that are held that same time they are living. He gives introductions to Montag to know more. I liked Montag as I read this book because not only because he was different from others or wanting to know about the books, but also he tried hard and always doing his best by risking to lose his job and being caught to the police and go to jail. He sincerely wanted to know what was like in the past and was trying to defend the society of being more dreadful and ironic. Also, I liked Clarisse who led Montag to get interested in books. She knew that he was different, and was pure, innocent, and always saw matters or objects around her positively. She thought positively, and she was always observing them deeply even if they were so obvious and was no wonder to ordinary people. Both Montag and Clarisse wanted to know about the past, they were always curious and trying to figure out the universal human quality and the society’s quality. By book, they were heading to a study for general thoughts of human in their society in the past which was close to the universal human experiences.
Question #2
Question 2) Are there any current situations in the world that relate to the novel? What are they, and how do they relate? Does the novel shed any light on how current situations could be resolved or “fixed”?
The year 2006 was a hard time for many people in Korea. There were a lot of house price confusion, the economic conditions were not good, and political injustice emerged as the local election took place and there were some bribery suspicions related to it in that very year.
I want to talk about political corruption and injustice that there is a similar part in this book. There are some talks about the politics, and people are worried about the Government. According to ‘Money Today’ news’s editorial writer, who wrote an editorial about flourishing country and not flourishing country, the people think that the reason to their country’s bad condition is because of bad leader, and there is a concrete investigation report from Harvard University about what is happening under the leader. It mentioned ten reason of a country’s not flourishing situation, and political corruption was in the first place.
Also, there is another column from “News Maker,” it mentioned the political situation that was in 2006. One member of Grand National Party said, “Is it all that if a person is a Governor? A true Governor should act like a real Governor.” There are so many Governors that do not act like one, and I think this is a serious problem. They do not participate well on the conference, they do not work for the citizens. All they are interested in is money. It makes me think that Governors do not try hard to develop their country and they sometimes be an obstacle to the country’s development.
The year 2006 was a hard time for many people in Korea. There were a lot of house price confusion, the economic conditions were not good, and political injustice emerged as the local election took place and there were some bribery suspicions related to it in that very year.
I want to talk about political corruption and injustice that there is a similar part in this book. There are some talks about the politics, and people are worried about the Government. According to ‘Money Today’ news’s editorial writer, who wrote an editorial about flourishing country and not flourishing country, the people think that the reason to their country’s bad condition is because of bad leader, and there is a concrete investigation report from Harvard University about what is happening under the leader. It mentioned ten reason of a country’s not flourishing situation, and political corruption was in the first place.
Also, there is another column from “News Maker,” it mentioned the political situation that was in 2006. One member of Grand National Party said, “Is it all that if a person is a Governor? A true Governor should act like a real Governor.” There are so many Governors that do not act like one, and I think this is a serious problem. They do not participate well on the conference, they do not work for the citizens. All they are interested in is money. It makes me think that Governors do not try hard to develop their country and they sometimes be an obstacle to the country’s development.
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