Fahrenheit 451- blog 2

Mrs. Leffler, I just wanted to start off by saying this blog was a NIGHTMARE to write. I actually wrote it Tuesday night, I promise, but got distracted from my mother asking me to pack this and that, I never got around to packing the post button. Then, I conveniently forgot to pack my laptop on my trip to California. yay. So, I decide to attempt to re-write my blog first in the car on the way to the airport and then finish it on the plane because I noticed they had "wi-fi". Well, I finished, hit post, and I get this thing on my screen on how to pay for the wi-fi service on the plane. The wi-fi wasn't free! So, I hit the back button, and of course my long, in-depth blog that was probably better than this one was gone. I gave up at that point. SO, I just got home from my trip and here it is finally, a week late, my last Fahrenheit 451 blog.

I have officially decided that I do not like this book. I have one word for it, weird. It was just plain weird. And I found out I get it honest too, my dad said the exact same thing about it. Who knew book taste was hereditary?

I just didn't really like any of it. The whole concept just seemed a little wack to me. I don't understand the job of the so called "firefighters". They cause fires because things are now flame-proof? The buildings are obviously still flammable since they burn down when the firefighters light them. Accidents are still bound to happen. And what about forest fires? Who puts those out? There HAS to be some nature still left in that world. I know I wasn't really supposed to, but I didn't find any of this book really believable, which made it very hard for me like and get into. Like, Montag. I didn't like how he was so lucky towards the end of the book. I felt like things were just coming out of nowhere that benefitted him such as the river he just so happened to make it to just in time, and the group of people that he found that were just like him that he just happened to come upon after reaching land again from the river. That just wasn't very believable for me. And what about his messed up leg?? The book barely even mentioned it after the incident itself. There's no way he could have run across an entire city to save his life with a messed up leg. I also didn't like the outcome of the book. I wish Montag would have been the hero that I so wanted him to end up being and save the world and society through his original, gutsy plan. I didn't like how he kind of ran away from everything and is now having to save the world one memory and one by-passer at a time. It just wasn't my kind of story. All of the people in it just made me mad.

On a positive note, I do applaud Ray Bradbury's fast-paced story telling technique. I was never bored throughout the entire book.

Fahrenheit 451 blog 1

I haven't quite decided what I think about this book yet. It's really different for me. It makes me mad a lot, but I'm not sure if that's something that I like or not yet. Montag's wife, Mildred, makes me the maddest. She doesn't care about anything but some digital world and family! She never wants to listen to her real husband, and she doesn't know that he might be the only real person in the world that cares a little about her. Montag does care about her a little at least; he did take her to the "doctor" when she overdosed, and he worries about her doing it again. It just really makes me mad that she gives nothing back to her husband, who has done everything for her while she sits at home in the parlor, talking to her "family".

I loved Clarisse. I thought she was such a sweet girl, and I wanted to cry when they were talking about her being dead. I don't want to believe that she's dead for some reason. I don't think she was really that crazy. She did things that would be considered somewhat normal in today's society. Like her psychiatrist couldn't understand why she went hiking in the woods to watch birds and collect butterflies. This wouldn't be the most normal behavior for a 17-year-old girl, but it's not something to throw someone in a mental hospital for. She just wanted to know about the world around her; that's not crazy at all. But heaven forbid someone like her live in that society. People aren't allowed to think whatsoever.

I like that Montag wants to change things in his society. I like that he knows his job is wrong and that killing that woman was wrong. I felt sooo bad for that woman and for Montag in that scene. He tried so hard to get her out. Montag has so much hero inside of him; he wants to save anyone he can.

This book is weird. That's the best word I have for it right now. It's unlike anything I have read before. I will hopefully decide if I like it or dislike it soon though! Stay tuned for the answer :)