Fahrenheit 451 Notes Page 130 - 179 (end)

Montag gets to Fabers house and starts conversating with him, Montag is starting to regeret his actions, Faber suggest Montag sticks to the railroad tracks as they are abandoned and only other criminals and the homeless use it, Faber also removes a picture from the wall and reveals a TV and they watch the news report on Montag. A new mechanical hound from another district will be hunting Montag down. and the hound is to be followed with cameras for everyone to see. Montag wonders if there is a phrase or a word that he could say in his last moments to wake society up, then he leaves Fabers house and tells Faber to burn everything he touched, and wipe the doorknobs down with alcohol, and other things like this to make an extra precaution. Montag also asks Faber to get him a suitcase full of dirty cloths, and after that Montag is off and out that back door. Montag is on the run from the mechanical hound when everyone is watching on the run he stops by to look in peoples houses on their TV's and he sees the hound neer Fabers house and worries when it stops at he house, but the hound never went their. On the seashell radios that everyone has their is an announcement that in 10 seconds everyone is to look outside, because if everyone looks theirs no way they can't find Montag, but on the last second Montag makes it to the river just in time and starts to swim across it. Montag swims all the way across the river, just to look back and see the shape of the hound, and Montag thinks this is too much for one man. Montag gets to one of the camps and meets Granger, Granger predicts that because it will take too long to find Montag the hound will be used to kill an innocent and he would be framed as Montag, his prediction was correct. Granger asks Montag to join them but he must first offer something to them,  Montag would offer something but he has no more books, he offers the Book of Ecclesiastes, they wonder where the book is and Montag points to his head, Granger then goes on by saying everyone is a book and he starts pointing to the individuals and quoting famous books and famous writers. On the walk further the war started, and ended, in an instant, they had bombed Montags city, Montag cried out for Clarisse, Mildred, and Faber to get out of the city, but then he remembered that Clarisse was dead, Faber was already out of the city, and Mildred, he imagined her death, and then he remembered where they had met for the first time, something that at the beginning of the book he had been struggling to figure out. Montag remebers a quote from the Book of Ecclesiastes. The final pages (167-179) are about the author, and his life of writing.

Fahrenheit 451 Notes 11/7/14

In pages 120-130 Montag is injured and on the run. He goes into his backyard and grabs some secret hidden books in his garden. He keeps thinking Faber is dead because he burnt the ear piece along with Beatty, so he decides to go to Fabers house but when he decides this he notices he was already instinctively going there already. On the way Montag saw a police officer and he tried to stay cool but he started running because he was still nervous, the Beatle started chasing him until he fell over and noticed the Beatle was not a cop car it was children who rarely see anyone walking so they decided to chase him, he wonders if this is the car that killed clarese, and he becomes angry at this thought. And finally he goes into one of the firemen's houses a one Mr. And Mrs. Black he sneaks in and he places one of the books he has and call the alarm to their house, Montag says " It's your house and your turn, for all the houses your husband burnt and the people without thinking." So, Montag feels this is all fair.

Fahrenheit 451 Notes 11/5/2014

On pages 110-120 Montag is forced to burn down his own house with a flamethrower, as I was reading this I couldn't help but feel sad for Montag as the author describes all his memory's and books being burnt in the fire, and at the end of it all Captain Beatty still has the heart to throe in the words "Your under arrest", as they are wait for, I'm guessing authorities, to arrive Beatty hits Montag over the head and snatches the ear piece that Faber was talking to him though, he puts it in his pocket and says "We'll trace this and drop it on your friend", this finally gets Montag angry enough to make some action and what was once Montag's friend and co-working was now his biggest rival. Montag burns Beatty to death, he knocks out the other firemen, and destroys the firehouse Mechanical hound. Things are about to get real serious in the next few chapters as I predict that Montag will be on the run from authorities and on the run for his life.

Vocabulary List 8

Ruinous- disastrous or destructive

Quavered- shake or tremble in speaking

Certitude- absolute certainty

Notch- incision on an edge or surface

Perspired- give out sweat through pores

Manifested- display or show by ones acts or appearance

Latrine- toilet or outhouse

Uttered- make a sound with ones voice

Parried- ward off attack with counter move

Oracle- a priest or priestess giving messages

Concious- aware and responding to ones surroundings and awake

Feigning- pretend to be affected by feeling or injury

Leisurely- unhurried or relaxed

Conjure- make something appear unexpectedly

Anesthetized- administer an anesthetic

Tryanny- cruel and oppressive government or rule

Folly- lack of good sense

Dreary- dull, bleak, lifeless

Grotesque- repulsively ugly or distorted

Reckoning- action or process of calculating something



-sorry for stealing your hard work Robert :\

Fahrenheit 451 Summary So Far

Fahrenheit 451 is about a fireman named montag, montag lives in a near future world with fire proof houses so, instead of putting out fires he starts them. His job is mainly to burn books because reading has become outlawed. He meets a girl named clarese that asks him "are you happy" this triggers many events that blow up his whole world he starts wondering why he is doing certain thing, and starts stealing books from the houses he is burning down, one night he burns a woman along with her books and the next morning doesn't go into work, his fire chief (boss) comes to his house and convinces him to go into work by explaining what he's going through in flaud logic that wouldn't make sense to normal people in our world.

Interesting Things About Fahrenheit 451

So, I found this link on /r/todayilearned the other day about Fahrenheit 451 it was the second top post of all time, it talks about the title of the book and how Ray Bradbury was going to name the book "The Fireman" and it also links to a summary type thing of the whole book, thought it could be of use to somebody other than me. HERE YOU GO!

Fahrenheit 451 Vocab For Most of the Words in the Book

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Dover Beach BY MATTHEW ARNOLD

The sea is calm tonight.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.

Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Ægean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Vocab: Fall List 5

adroit

Adj. Quick or skillful or adept in action or thought

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amicable

Adj. Characterized by friendship and good will

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averse

Adj. Strongly opposed

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belligerent

Adj. Characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight

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benevolent

Adj. Generous in providing aid to others

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cursory

Adj. Hasty and without attention to detail

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duplicity

Noun. Acting in bad faith

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extol

Verb. Praise, glorify, or honor

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feasible

Adj. Capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances

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grimace

Noun. A contorted facial expression

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holocaust

Noun. An act of great destruction and loss of life

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impervious

Adj. Not admitting of passage or capable of being affected

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impetus

Noun. The act of applying force suddenly

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jeopardy

Noun. A source of danger

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meticulous

Adj. Marked by precise accordance with details

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nostalgia

Noun. Longing for something past

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quintessence

Noun. The most typical example or representative of a type

retrogress

Verb. Go back to bad behavior

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crutinize

Verb. To examine closely

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tepid

Adj. Lukewarm; unenthusiastic, marked by an absence of interest

Vocab for Studying

melancholy: 

[mel-uh n-kol-ee]

noun, plural melancholies.

1.

a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged;depression.

exemplary:

[ig-zem-pluh-ree, eg-zuh m-pler-ee]

adjective

1.

worthy of imitation; commendable:

exemplary conduct.

peculiar:

[pi-kyool-yer]

adjective

1.

strange; queer; odd:

peculiar happenings.

dread:

[dred]

verb (used with object)

1.

to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of:

to dread death.

bough:

[bou]

noun

1.

a branch of a tree, especially one of the larger or main branches

pious:

[pahy-uh s]

adjective

1.

having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnestwish to fulfill religious obligations.

communion:

[kuh-myoon-yuh n]

noun

1.

(often initial capital letter). Also called Holy Communion.Ecclesiastical.

1. the act of receiving the Eucharistic elements.
2. the elements of the Eucharist.
3. the celebration of the Eucharist.
4. the antiphon sung at a Eucharistic service.

auditor:

[aw-di-ter]

noun

1.

a person appointed and authorized to examine accounts andaccounting records, compare the charges with the vouchers, verifybalance sheet and income items, and state the result.

multitude:

[muhl-ti-tood, -tyood]

noun

1.

a great number; host:

a multitude of friends.

eloquence:

[el-uh-kwuh ns]

noun

1.

the practice or art of using language with fluency and aptness.

despair:

[dih-spair]

noun

1.

loss of hope; hopelessness.

hoary:

[hawr-ee, hohr-ee]

adjective, hoarier, hoariest.

1.

gray or white with age:

an old dog with a hoary muzzle.