Sunday, August 15, 2010
Fahrenheit 451 - Part One
Part one of this book was pretty interesting. Guy Montag is a fireman. Now when I say he is a fireman I do not mean the kind who heroically jump in to buildings to save people. In the warped future of this book firemen start fires. They find people who have books and they burn their books. Guy is just an average fireman when one he meets a young girl on his way form work who makes him reevaluate his life and how he has been living. After some soul searching and going back and forth GUy decides that he wants to know what tis so important in a book that people would die for them. He locks himself in his house and starts to read so that he may understand. So far this a pretty good book. I like how different things are. How everything seems almost right. Like in a find the difference picture you know something is different but you can not quite put your finger on it. Some things are pretty cool like a wall to wall television. Though something I can not help but wonder is do they stand and like spin around to watch TV or sit? How does that work. I am also thinking that Guy is a little nuts. Who all of a sudden hates their life so fervently that they want to risk it by doing the exact thing their job is to stop? One of the more disturbing parts was when Guy cam home and found his wife had overdosed on sleeping pills. He did not know whether it was on purpose or if it was an accident. The paramedics cam to his house and were ridiculously calm and made it seem like this was one of the more routine parts of their job.Then when she woke up his wife did not remember a single thing and thought he was the one who was acting strange about everything.
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