ENG201Alexis K Reading Blog

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! ...