Below are twenty questions (like the game...) over the reading in part 2. Please choose one question to answer. In your post, you must write the number of the question, the question, and then your response. EACH QUESTION CAN ONLY BE ANSWERED ONCE!!!! So, if a classmate has already responded to number 2, for example, you can't respond to that one---pick another. Each response will be graded for completeness of thought, support from the text, insight, and grammar.
1. As Montag and Mildred read books, what scratches at their door? Why is this troublesome?
2. What nagging thoughts wrack Montag about the jet bombers constantly in the skies and the atomic war? Why did Bradbury include a war as a backdrop?
3. What mand does Montag call? Why? How many copies are left on earth of the famous books?
4. What does Montag realize about the books he has? Why is this realization significant?
5. Where does Montag go and why? Predict what will become in part 3 because of this relationship.
6. Faber admits to being a coward. Why? What is the effect of this admission on Montag?
7. What is Montag searching for? Can it be found in books? Explain...
8. What three things does Faber say this new-society they now live in lacks. Does our current society lack this? Why or why not? Support with evidence.
9. What do books, quality writings, do for a society? Has our society changed because books are losing favor? If so, how? If not cite evidence that the quality still exists.
10. When Faver refused to help Montag plant books in firemen's houses so they can burn down and destroy firemen, what does Montag do to persuade him to go along? What quality of Faber's allows Montag to persuade him? How will this quality either help or hurt him for the rest of the novel?
11. What now is the plan that Montag and Faber have? What was right/wrong with it? Why?
12. Where does Montag go, and symbolically, why is this significant?
13. Mildred and her friends watch the televistion walls, but what did Montag do that put all of them in danger? How did Clara Phelps react? Why is this reaction significant?
14. What did Montag say to the women when they left his house saying the would never come back? What do these women most closely resemble in OUR society? Why do you feel this way?
15. What does Faber tell Montag over the ear green metal phone? What does Mildred do? Discuss the fact that the phone is green if the color green in literature symbolizes "new life".
16. What did Montag do with the twenty books. Do you feel this was a good decision?
17. When Montage left for work, where was Mildred? In what way was this significant--or even symbolic?
18. What important discovery does Montag come to learn about himself? What other famous people do you feel also have this quality and has made them the success they are or have been?
19. What was Faber's conclusion about Beatty after he heard him bait Montag? What does this mean? (This is VERY significant!!!!) and what does it tell the reader about Beatty himself? (Think back to Clarisse and the important question she asked of Montag at the start of the novel.)
20. The fire alarm rings. Where does the call take them? Who do you think turned the culprit in and why do you feel this way? Support with details.
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Question 3.
ReplyDeleteMontag calls Professor Faber to ask if there are any copies of the bible left. He finds out that there are no more copies of the bible left.
i choose question number 1. As Montag and Mildred read books, what scratches at their door? Why is this troublesome?
ReplyDeleteas they are reading the electronic hound scratches at there door . This is a big problem for a few reasons . the first being that captan beatty knows that montag has books in his house but he does not kno where they are or how many he might have for that matter . the second reason is that the hound already has it out for montag some one at work must have already put his DNA into the hound . my third reason is the fact that when bradbury tells us about the hound he says that no matter what it wont stop until the job is done and it has caught it specific target . unless montag find some way to destroy the hound then this will be a big problem for him and mildred through out the rest of the book .
Question 4.
ReplyDeleteMontag realizes the books he has like the Old and New testament could be the last copy in the world. This is significant because he could have the last copy and it could put him in danger for someone who wants the book or knows he has it.
Question 20.
ReplyDeleteThe fire call takes the firemen to Montags house. The person that I think turned them in was Mildred. She had lost her friends because of Montags behavior the night before. I think she turned them in because she wanted the books to be gone so that they could go back to their "normal" lives, sitting in front of the television walls. Mildred is clueless about reality and she seems like the only one that would turn herself in because I doubt she knows the actual consequences.
Question 9: What do books, quality writings, do for a society? Has our society changed because books are losing favor? If so, how? If not cite evidence that the quality still exists.
ReplyDeleteBooks and quality writing makes us think. It can make us think outside the box, makes us be creative, and make us have an imagination.. Our society has changed over time. Now instead of picking up a book to read, people are picking up a remote control or hand-held games. Or instead of writing a letter to someone, we write an email using computer technology or a text message on cell phones. This day in age, people are less concerned about doing this correctly, like spelling, or taking their time to write a thought out story or message. Books and quality writing are becoming less in favor. I think that's all because of technology.
The "t.v. parlor" for sure.. Pretty much Mildred spend all her time there and has no idea what to do when she doesn't have that stupid little "sea shell" bu' buzzin' in her ear. She could not operate for five minutes with out having the "people on the wall" control her life,she claims to have a relation ship with these "people" but she barely knows their names. Technology is dece but not to the extent where fake things are controlling your life. The wall has deteriorated mildred life to the point where she dose not know where she met her own husband. T.V. parlors ruin lives...
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ReplyDeleteThe three things Faber says this society is lacking quality, Leisure and The right to carrie out these actions base upon what we learn from the books.
In our society I think that we have the first one which is quality because we are able to learn things from the books we read, the second one which is leisure though I don't think that our society has it anymore because most of us have way no time to ponder over what we have learned. For the last one most of the time we can carrie out the actions we learn as long as it is within the laws that are set up.
6. Faber admits to being a coward. Why? What is the effect of this admission on Montag?
ReplyDeleteFaber was being honest. He didn't want Guy to be angered due to the fact that he was the head and Guy was the arms. Montag understood that Faber was too old and week to start a revolution but had the knowledge to lead it.
Question 13.
ReplyDeleteMontag walked in the parlor and shut off the walls. He took out a book and was getting ready to read it, but Clara Phelps started freaking out telling him not to read it. This is putting Montag in danger because one of the women could report him, and because they all know that he has books. Clara's reaction is significant because it shows what most people think about books, and how dangerous it is for you to be reading them.
I choose question number 5. Montag goes to see Faber because hes the only one that he thinks can help him with the book. Montag remembers that Faber showed him the book that one time and now that hes in a bind and needs to copy this book or find out some way to preserve it. I think that in part three this relationship will grow quite strong because at this point Montag needs Faber to help him with the books. There isn't really a choice in the matter. I also think that they will end up trusting each other because they are both so hungry for the knowledge books hold and they have to because they both know each other has the outlawed book.
ReplyDeleteI choose Question number 16.What did Montag do with the twenty books. Do you feel this was a good decision? Montag carried the books into the backyard and hid them in the bushes near the alley fence. I feel it was a bad decision because the hound could easily find the book and Montag would be dead meat. It's also not smart because if he want to get the books out someone might see him.
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ReplyDeleteWhat nagging thoughts wrack Montag about the jet bombers constantly in the skies and the atomic war? Why did Bradbury include a war as a backdrop?
Bradbury included a war as a backdrop because during this time the war, cold war, was a big issue. Its also to show how technology can turn the people who don't even think anymore, that they ignore bombers over their houses, and such.
#18 What important discovery does Montag come to learn about himself? What other famous people do you feel also have this quality and has made them the success they are or have been?
ReplyDeleteI think he discovers he's not like everyone else, that he is living in a society of people doing the same thing every day. He realizes there is more to life, that he's trapped into believing there is nothing else then what he is doing now. I think that Mrs. A realizes this too, she realizes that we are all on strings and are being controlled to do what the government wants us to do. :)
#7. What is Montag looking for? Can he find it in books? I think Montag is looking for truth and someone to just listen to him, someone to tell him he isn't crazy. I think that the books do hold some of what he is looking for. I think he is trying to find some history and reasoning for why things are the way they are today. I think he found someone to listen to him once he met Faber. Faber knows books and history and Montag knows that Faber can help him.
ReplyDelete12. Where does Montag go, and symbolically, why is this significant? He went to Fabers house with the book and they talked about books. He wanted Faber to tell him about books because he had one.
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ReplyDeleteWhen montag called the professor to see if there was another copy of the bible, and when the professor replied no he was shocked.
He knew he would be endagered if anyone knew or found out he had the book.
question 11
ReplyDeleteThe plan is to take books and plant them in the homes of firemen. They did not want to use the books they have because they where valuable. so the are going to have them printed then plant them in the lis Faber made. The plan could go bad because theres a chance of getting caught, or a chance of not finding the printing press. They are going to make the salamander "eat its own tale"