Fahrenheit 451 - Alternate Ending

After I finished this book I went online to a get a few varying opinions on the book and something pretty cool I found out was that in the movie that was made about this book there is an alternate ending in which Guy finds Clarisse living with all of the Hobos. I thought that this was a pretty cool alternate ending though I am really interested in how she go there. In the story it says she got hit by a car and died. I would love to hear them explain that one. I think it would go some thing like... My uncle and I needed to trick the government so we pretended I got hit by a car and he moved away in anger. Then we came out here to live with these Hobos so that we could be happy and live in peace with nature. I think that would be pretty funny. In all seriousness though I thought that the alternate ending was a lot better than the normal one. Even though I loved the normal ending the alternate one seems to be a lot more happy than the first one. What can I say, I am a sucker for happy endings. I would still want most of the book to go the same way, especially the ending part where he remembers where him and Mildred met as I think that is a pretty stinking sweet ending to the book with just the right amount of drama and just the right amount of awesome. I do not really know how they would tie that in with the alternate ending but that would be for someone with writing skills to worry about. Something else I think would be cool is like an epilogue where it shows the group a year or two later and how everything has changed and what progress they have made in beating the mean government if any. Whether or not Faber made it to his friend who runs a printing press or whether or not he died as is probably more likely.

Fahrenheit 451 - Had Faber Not Been There

Faber was arguably the most important factor in Guy Montag deciding to rebel against his current life and against the fire station. Faber is an old man, once a prestigious professor at a university. He has now been reduced to an old hermit, just a kindly old man who does nothing but stay in his house all day reading and dreaming of revenge. Guy met him almost a year ago in a park. They had a very strange conversation in which Faber seemed to hint that he had books. It seemed almost like an invitation to a sort of underground resistance group. When Guy began to question everything around him, people, places, rules, society. He needed some one he could turn to for answers and direction. He went to Faber as a sort of instinctual way of seeking out those with more knowledge and experience. It took a while to gain Faber's trust but once he did Guy did not look back. Faber told him that he was right to want to start thinking for himself. Guy asked what he should and Faber told him the most amazing thing. Guy should do whatever he wanted, nobody can tell you how to live your life but yourself he said. Faber set Guy on to the path of thinking for him self. Rather than telling Guy how he must do it he let Guy figure it out on his own. A vitally important step to Guy deciding he wanted to live with the Hobo's. If Faber had not been there Guy may have gotten the courage to change everything he stood for. He may not have even began to question his own life and the way he was living. Faber changed the entire story for the better without him the story would have been about a guy who burned books and nothing more. Faber made everything in the story happen. Faber was vitally important to the story.

Fahrenheit 451 - Where They Met Pt 2

My other blog on this subject ran over the three hundred and twenty five mark and seeing as I need a whole lot of blogs still I shall make it two. Who knows how the fact that Guy and Mildred both forgot such an important fact could have affected his decision to change his life. In my opinion I think it greatly contributed to his change of heart. It most definitely made him realize that the person he had slept with for years was an almost stranger to him. Some one he thought he knew and loved turning out to be completely different sure can put a spark under your butt. Another really interesting sort of twist to this part of the story is at the very end of the book. While he is with the hobos Guy suddenly remembers where he and Mildred met, Chicago. I thought this was a pretty cool thing for the author to add. It signified that the reason he could not remember where they met was not because it was unimportant, but rather because he had changed as a person and so had Mildred. This sort of ended the story when he remembered. In my opinion it was a great ending to this novel. It really seemed to wrap every thing up as, in my professional opinion, it signified that Guy had gone back to what he really was. Not what everyone else thought he was or should be. Who he was as a person, what kept him at peace within himself. This is at least what I think all of the whole can not remember where they met thing represented, the fact that he was at odds with his own being. Sort of in an everlasting internal conflict with his brain on what and who he should be as a person. His heart knew what was right but his brain wanted what was best for his body and his material life.

Fahrenheit 451 - Where They Met

In the first part of Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag ask his wife, Mildred, where they met. Guy is unable to remember where they met, for a moment Mildred can not remember either. Then she decides that it really is not a very big deal and forgets about. Something about the fact he can not remember where he met his wife troubles Guy greatly. All this is during the time where Guy is beginning to think about the things that Clarisse, a young girl, has been saying. Guy is incredibly torn between the life he has known for his entire existence and the strangely interesting and different life the he feels Clarisse is offering. Guy is reluctant to go at first but as realization of how fake is life is dawn on him he feels the urge to join in with Clarisse. I think the point where he wife and him were unable to come up with where they met was of huge importance to how Guy eventually decided to change his life. Imagine, the one person you should love unconditionally and should love you back without pause or thought about it. That one person is unable to recall how you even met each other. A moment celebrated in our reality by many couples. It is not rare to see two people late in their life, possibly even close to death fondly recalling the exact day an moment they met each other. Where they were, how they met, what they said everything is clear as day to many people. So why is it then that Guy is completely at a loss for figuring out such an important thing, and his wife is at a loss for it as well. It is rather sad to read about, it seems as if Guy is realizing he barely knows the person he has lived and loved with for almost ten years. They can not even remember where they met each other. They seemingly are almost complete stranger, trophies on their respective mantles.

Fahrenheit 451 - Why Did Mildred Turn Him In Pt 2

Continued form my other blog which had reached the 325 word mark. Finally, he lets you go to bed. The next day Captain Beatty, the captain of the firemen comes to your house looking for Guy. In an almost eerie manner you feel Beatty knows that you have books in your house. Guy is absolutely terrified of Beatty now. You finally manage to convince Guy that he must go back in to work if only to show Beatty that he has nothing to hide and certainly does not own any books! You try to go on with your normal day. Doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Then when you finally feel normal again you decide that you will have some friends over to watch the family. Every one is enjoying them selves having a wonderful time. Then Guy comes home and you can immediately tell something is wrong. He seems to gives off a sort of bad vibe. Of course he instantly kills all conversation in the room. Then he really begins to act strangely beginning to yell at you and your friends. Making no comprehend able sense he then does the unthinkable. He pulls out a book and even begins to read in front of you and your friends. Reading some nonsense poetry he evens tarts screaming. All of a sudden your friends are crying, and demand they go home for the night. You stay awake that entire night wondering what happened tot he man that you married as this is obviously someone entirely different than that man. Finally you realize that there is only one thing you can do. Even though it makes you feel empty inside you realize you must turn in Guy for having books. He needs help you reason and the government can help him better than anyone else can. Finally the time comes. You pack your bags and belongings, call the fire station and report your husband has books.

Fahrenheit 451 - Why Did Mildred Turn Him In

In the book Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag is turned in for having books. Not surprising seeing as pulled a book out and started to read while his wife had guests over. The surprising and rather sad part of the whole ordeal was who turned him in. Not only did his wife's friends all call and turn him in for having books but so did his own wife. The person that is supposed to love him no matter what happens, no matter how bad the situation is or how mad one is. His own wife called the fire station, and basically sentenced Guy to life imprisonment. Obviously Guy is devastated by the fact that his wife turned him in. It is easy to say the wife is at fault and to condemn her but why don't we try looking at it from her perspective. Imagine if you can that your life is going marvelously and all is well. Then one day your husband begins to act strangely. He comes home talking about this odd young women named Clarisse, you shrug it off but he continues to act different. Finally one day he seems to have lost it. He absolutely refuses to go in to his work which he has always loved. Then he pulls out boxes of books! In your house hidden away from you! He begins to seem almost hysterical claiming that their is something important in them something you must see. You finally decide to calm his nerves and read a book with him to calm his nerves but you find nothing but words. He begins claiming they are of utmost importance and that you must at all costs read these books almost as if it is life or death. So you stay up long in to the night reading those darn books, you find nothing of importance and yet he still claims to know something important that the government is hiding is in them.

The Old Man and the Sea - Why I Didn't Like It

I personally did not like this book very much, at all. I sat in my room and read this book from front to back all in one go. It started off very interesting I mean who does not like a good fish chase? But then he catches it, the fish gets eaten bam end of story. I mean what!? The whole story just ends, no warning no nothing. There was positively no closure to it, nothing is resolved, we never find out what happens to Santiago. Nothing, just ending. I was really mad when I finished the book, I felt like I had been cheated out of the ninety minutes it took me to read the book. I remember thinking did I really just read this supposed American masterpiece or did I buy the wrong book.surely this could not be the same book that had sold millions of copies all over the world. Not the same critically acclaimed book. But sadly it was and this left me with the elephant in the room. How could anyone like this book? There is positively no character development, not single bit interesting dialog, not even one surprise in the whole book. I have no idea how so many people like this book. I thought it was downright terrible. I understand the message and how the book and everything in it is supposed to represent life and all that jazz. But still it felt like the author just got tired of writing and decided to simply end the book rather than to continue on with a normal ending. I mean he just goes to sleep, does he die, does he wake up. What happens? I will probably never understand why so many people in the world seem to like this book, which I think is a giant rip off. Maybe someday when I am older I will understand why everyone loves it but probably not since it was a dumb book.