How Do Books Have Pores?

-----"The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details you can get on a sheet of paper, the more literary you are (pg.83)." When Ray Bradbury writes this in his novel I think he is trying to say that books too have pores. These pores give books life and they take in aspects of life as we write them. The more pores in a book the more the book tells you about life, and the more you read these books the more you take in of life. The pores in books give them features and bring emotions to us as we read them. Whether the emotions are saddness or happiness it is as if the book is alive. And in reading something as simple as a couple of words in a sentence some writers can bring a whole new meaning to something that could have been thought to be not important. Every theme, meaning, or conflict in a book can be found in real life. That is why books are so important. They can open up and teach and show a reader things they may never see in life. As Ray Bradbury said in the novel not everyone has the money, resources, or time to travel all over the world to see the amazing things it has to offer, but reading a book is sometimes the closest these people to get.

---I don't know if what I just wrote makes any sense at all. I don't know how to put what I was thinking in words but that is the best way I can.

How Do They Not Know

----The people in the community of Fahrenheit 451 seem to be completely unaware of the outside world. All they know is what they see in their own community. I think the government has driven into their heads that outside of their little community there is a war going on, and that the other communities are of people who read books. Somehow the government has made the people believe that books are evil in some way or another. That they hurt people and make them unhappy. However, the government didn't do this on their own. A while ago people began to stop reading books on their own and following this the government banned books completely. I think the government makes the people believe that in the outside world it is dangerous because of the wars going on and the others that read books. They shelter the people and make sure they don't know what is really going on by installing fear into their minds. Fear that they may get hurt in a war or that the books in other communities may bring sad and unhappy feelings back to them. And, with the limited mind that the people in Montag's community have they are afraid of what might happen if they question or venture into the outside world.

Why Is Montag Unhappy

----In the beginning of the book Montag tells Clarisse that he is happy. But, when he gets home he realizes, as he is satnding in the dark, that he really isn't happy. He compares his happiness to the darkness in the room and says that he only wears his happiness as a mask. " He wore his happines like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back." I think in this quote the author is trying to say that Montag appears to be happy, that he puts on a happy face but inside he really isn't happy. Just like how he doesn't know what firemen used to do or why he burns the books I don't think he really understands what happiness is either. Especially with his relationship with his wife. It doesn't seem like they love each other but that they are married to each other just because they are almost like it was an arranged marriage or just like they were told to marry each other just like Montag is just told to burn books without reason. In addition, I don't really think he is happy. He goes to work to do something that he is told to do yet he doesn't know why he does it. Then he comes home to what seems like a wife that doesn't really care what is going on.

Blogging Responsibly

This is a response to Mr. Miller's blog.


----In the three articles I have just read they talk about many different, potential dangers of blogging. In the first article they talk about a couple of teenagers blogging about a teacher they disliked. They also threatened to harm the teacher. This article also mentioned a teenager blogging about gay marriages and African Americans. Teens need to understand that what they talk about in their blogs is completely public. Anyone anywhere can read what they are saying and that no personal information should be posted on these blogs for their own safety. Today it is way too dangerous to post personal information like full names, addresses, and phone numbers because of online and child predators.

-----2 rules for blogging......1) No personal information should be posted. 2) Threats, profanity, and bullying should not be allowed to be posted.

My Impressions of Fahrenheit 451

-----So far from what I have read of the beginning I think Fahrenheit 451 is going to be about a community where the firemen have no idea that they are supposed to put out fires. Montag thinks that firemen are supposed to burn books and from his discussion with his new neighbor he hasn't read any of the books he is burning either. I think they may live in a society where it is similar to the book The Giver, where the people are told things that may not be true for some reason or another. Maybe it is because the person who is the head of the community has pretty much brain washed everyone into thinking that the material in the books is in some way evil.
-----I also predict that because of Montag's new neighbor he may start to question why he bruns books and he may pick one up and actually read them. This can lead to a change in all of the firemen or even the people in the community as a whole.