Fahrenhet 451 Guiding Questions

1) The society that Montag lives is a place like the one we live in because everything is the same as a regular place. This book was written in the past that predicts the future which we are living in. The only differences that makes this book like a dystopia is that the beginning of the book says " IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BURN IT WAS A SPECIAL PLEASURE TO SEE THINGS EATEN, TO SEE THINGS BLACKENED AND CHANGED, WITH THE BRASS NOZZLE IN HIS FITS" which means something about firemen burning books and not caring about books.

2) What makes Clarisse so special is that when she gets 1st introduced to us she says " I'm seventeen and I'm crazy". But to begin with, she was never crazy because the things she says were not crazy so this makes her a character that is different from the others.

3) The mechanical hound has been programmed to react to Montag because they are friends in a way that we haven't been told in the book because we haven't read enough to know why.

Story- Modernism

Bright

A man filled with all the wonders of knowledge, anyone can have, lived on the side of a large hill. Sunlight from the east comes out every morning to wake him. High sun goes by, not yet night for the other side of the mountain. His life changed by a book he reads every day after work. Work comes first and to read his book after work is all he wishes, but very little light he has left. With little light after work, he decided to use his knowledge and move his house away from the hill, little by little, until he has sunlight all day. He wakes up one day to realize that time is also moving along. Fall is coming to an end and winter will soon arrive. With no way to move back next to the hill, he realizes the snow will have him trapped until spring comes. All the knowledge in the world is useless if one doesn’t know how to use it. 

This story meets the criteria for Modernism writing because I did my best try to make it like it was written in the past and for it to not have technology in it. I didn't use much imagery or figurative language because I  didn't know how to use it so it will fit with the story.

Prufrock: Shmuck

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 

By T. S. Eliot

This poem talks about how he is in a place that no one will be able to find him or reply back to him so that's why he is writing this to let us know what he thinks of the topic of love. He talks about being afraid to tell his lover that he loves her but doesn't knows if she loves him back. Throughout the poem he mentions his bald spot and about it is growing. Then at the end of the poem we get this unexpected line that says "Till human voices wake us, and we drown", which i think that means that we are all in a dream waiting to be woken up by something that will want us to come back to the real world.

CAN WE WATCH THE MOVIE?

When watching a movie that was made from a book, we can better understand the theme and the setting of it because the movie gives us a visual picture that we can see to help us better understand what is going on in the book. There are many things that are in the book that as we read it we don't really understand what it means until we watch the movie which can help us better understand the plots and how the characters are acting and how they are moving because we can't do that just by read the book and that's why its better to watch a movie to get a refresh of what we just read.

Journals Week Feb. 27-28 March 1-3

Socratic seminar

2/24/17 - Notes

Three Things to remember:
1) The green light
2) Ash Heaps
3) Eyes of T.J. Eckleburg

Both Daisy and Myrtle are golddiggers because both want Tom that has Money and Daisy want Gatsby because now he has money.
 An Example: Compare and Contrast - World War 1 when the archduke died it caused a chain of events that lead to the war just as in the book when Daisy was driving the car and hit Myrtle which also caused a chain of events that lead to Gatsby's death.
2nd Example: Richard Cory who was a rich man that everyone is his town respected him until he killed himself because he was unhappy although he was rich. Just as in the Great Gatsby which Gatsby was rich and everyone respected him but was never happy and died.

Journals Week 21-24