ENG201Alexis K Reading Blog

The time has come, where I have finished the book Fahrenheit 451. This past week I read pages 145- 158 and I noticed imagery in these final pages of the book. The first time I noticed this literary device is on page 153: "Montag, lying there, eye gritted shut with dust, a fine wet cement dust in his now shut mouth, gasping and crying, now thought again..." Here we find Montag pinned to the ground by fear of the aftermath or the bombs going off around him. We can imagine his eyes being glued shut by the dust and his mouth shut by the dust that has become wet and like cement. The use of words here really help you see what the horror Montag must be going through with not only his eyes but mouth covered in dust.   Next on page 155: "The sun was touching the back horizon with a faint red tip. The air was cold and smelled of a coming rain." Here the author fulfills three of our senses with his use of imagery, sight, touch/feeling, and smell. As we read this we c...

Currently, I am 145 pages into Fahrenheit 451 and I think its safe to say that it is my new favorite book. I love how different the world is in the novel. It has futuristic characteristics that strike my interest and keep me reading. I love reading about predictions of what our future may look like or seem like. After reading books like Divergent where a world is sectioned into factions and different societies, this one seems like our world just updated in their technology and style. Though, firefighters don't put out fires, they start them and they aren't burning things that you would have thought they would be burning. They are burning books. Books are illegal. This is something that also drew me into the book. I find it so interesting that something that has built our world up with stories and knowledge is now illegal and some generations will not know what a book is. It fascinates me!  One of the things I didn't appreciate was the short life of...

Clarisse McClellan, from the book Fahrenheit 451, is one of our main characters in the beginning in the book and abruptly leaves the story and goes missing. She makes an impact on Guy Montag's way of thinking in our story and it impacts him so much that it changes his whole view on books all together. She is a very special and kind hearted character in our story which is very different compared to our other characters. The author creates Clarisse with very kind and soft features that makes her approachable which is what makes Guy Montag  approach her the first night.  Our first use of direct characterization of Clarisse McClellan is on page three, "Her Head was half bent to watch her shoes stir in circling leaves. Her face was slender and milk-white, and in it was a kind of gentle hunger that touched over everything with tireless curiosity. It was a look, almost, of pale surprise; the dark eyes were so fixed to the world that no move escaped them. Her dress was ...

Currently, I am 114 pages into  Fahrenheit 451 and the book has been so interesting so far that I want to keep turning the pages! I wanted to take some time to discuss the setting of the novel. In our story, we are living through the life Guy Montag. The setting, to me, is something that is hard to pin point what it actually is. The world is like ours but its more futuristic in their technology and war is something that was more present. Form what the text states, I imagine the world to look like ours but be more modern and updated. People are more tuned into their newest technology gadgets and appliances than each other. The setting goes between the season of fall with Montag's futuristic house, to the firehouse that houses the frightening hound, and outside when Montag would walk with Clarisse, which is one of the only times where the world seemed normal. "The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seemed fixed to ...

After reading the title before starting the book  Fahrenheit 451  I had a hard time figuring out what the book could be about. My obvious observations of the title would be something to do with temperature. Here, we use Fahrenheit and Celsius to describe the temperature outside or of an appliance that uses temperature to perform it's purpose. This is what made me think the book would be about temperature. But why 451? Was that the temperature always used in the book? Is that the temperature used to burn or cook something? What is that number's significance in the book?  The cover that I own of this book does give a slight sneak peak of what the book may be about. Its a book but the book is a book of matches and the matches are peaking out. This a very interesting visual because it makes you question, what are we burning? Are we burning books? Are the books a source of heat? Cant wait to see if any of my questions get answered or if my predictions turn out to be true! ...