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Friday, January 10, 2014
It is a matter of indifference...
I hope that you are enjoying Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. It truly is a "thinking" book. One of the many things I hope that you will think about as you read this novel is its theme of indifference. As you are reading Part One, what are some things you have noticed about the society that reveals their indifference? Does our present society share some of these indifferences? or others? Explain. ( The deadline to post a response to this question is midnight, Tuesday, January 14, 2014)
In the society in the novel the firemen are burning books and starting fires as opposed to our society where the firemen put out fires. I do not see any shared indifferences yet in the novel.
I have noticed that, in the beginning of the book the main character, Montag, didn't care about whose house he burned down or why he was doing it. He just did it because that is his job. He didn't stop and think before he did something and that is shared in present society. It will always continue to be part of society because it is part of being human and every human does it
They do not care at all about anybody. They are very depressive. Their firemen start fires instead of putting them out. Their society is very different than ours, but we do have in common sadly about how people are hurting people more and more.
This book is very confusing to me. There are a lot of strange events that are hard for me to comprehend. I know that the 'firemen' are burning books in this novel, but I'm not sure why. In our society firemen don't burn things. This is very hard for me to understand and I tried my best with this question. Hannah Askew Block four
One indifference I notice was how they treated each other so badly. The fact that when montag's wife had committed suicide, they just came over and pumped her stomach as if they were working on some type of machine and how they didn't show any compassion at all. It just really disturbed me how they treated her as if she were a meaningless person
In the society of this time in the book "firemen" are starting fires opposed to our society.. putting them out. Also, when ever a person over doses we, as a society, dont take that lightly. In the novel it is basically a joking matter. I do not think our society and the society in the book have any of the same attributes.. yet...
The characters in the novel place very little value on things, even human life. They've even become desensitized to suicide, as shown by Montags wife. Today, people are also desensitized to things like death and destruction.
8 comments:
In the society in the novel the firemen are burning books and starting fires as opposed to our society where the firemen put out fires. I do not see any shared indifferences yet in the novel.
I have noticed that, in the beginning of the book the main character, Montag, didn't care about whose house he burned down or why he was doing it. He just did it because that is his job. He didn't stop and think before he did something and that is shared in present society. It will always continue to be part of society because it is part of being human and every human does it
They do not care at all about anybody. They are very depressive. Their firemen start fires instead of putting them out. Their society is very different than ours, but we do have in common sadly about how people are hurting people more and more.
This book is very confusing to me. There are a lot of strange events that are hard for me to comprehend. I know that the 'firemen' are burning books in this novel, but I'm not sure why. In our society firemen don't burn things. This is very hard for me to understand and I tried my best with this question.
Hannah Askew
Block four
One indifference I notice was how they treated each other so badly. The fact that when montag's wife had committed suicide, they just came over and pumped her stomach as if they were working on some type of machine and how they didn't show any compassion at all. It just really disturbed me how they treated her as if she were a meaningless person
In the society of this time in the book "firemen" are starting fires opposed to our society.. putting them out. Also, when ever a person over doses we, as a society, dont take that lightly. In the novel it is basically a joking matter. I do not think our society and the society in the book have any of the same attributes.. yet...
Savannah Jeter
4th Period
The characters in the novel place very little value on things, even human life. They've even become desensitized to suicide, as shown by Montags wife. Today, people are also desensitized to things like death and destruction.
In the society of Fahrenheit 451 everyone always seems to be in a rush. That is similar to our society today.
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