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Fahrenheit 451 AU:
Rhian is a futuristic "fireman," who unknowingly contributes to the world’s totalitarian censorship. Yet, the public has stopped reading (and believing in knowledge and the written word) of its own accord, and his job is becoming obsolete with the changing times.
Rafal on the other hand is a reader, who convinces Rhian to break the rules and read something, anything, before he burns it all away.
Rhian reads a mere a chapter of a tale, is blown away, and changes forever, his eyes opened to storytelling, and he decides to join forces with Rafal, the outlaw brother he’s never quite understood before, and they go on, preserving the tales and their lessons, each rebel on their side responsible for memorizing one volume.
The official Ray Bradbury facebook page doing propaganda for the new robot dogs...
I don't know what level of corporate blindness this is but I fucking hate it
The Hearth and the Salamander
It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. He strode in a swarm of fireflies. He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning.
I really like this book, so I thought I’d share it. It just came back to me and now I want to reread it!
Here’s the link to a pdf if anyone wants to read it with me.
https://jghsenglish.edublogs.org/files/2015/02/Fahrenheit-451.pdf
Beatty: you remind me of medusa
Montag: why
Beatty: every time i look into your eyes i get rock hard
There's really nothing more to say, it's funny that Orwell's 1984 hasn't been banned yet.
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Unpopular Opinion
Mildred Montag wasn’t depressed, her husband was just a bad spouse.
Fahrenheit 451 is unironically my favorite book. I decided to re read it because when I was a freshman I hated it and I actually love it now
I also chose to take notes, pink is how it started and yellow was me going back over stuff again. Because Montag from the near future has to be the narrator, it would make no sense otherwise especially with how much of a dick Bradbury is with inner monologues. Just italicize Montag’s thoughts damn it. Everyone remembers it was a pleasure to burn but I think that the second line is so much more impactful, especially with the ending bit in mind.
Montag is also surprisingly empathetic, he feels bad for the mechanically hound, guilty over killing his boss who has been shitty to him, and he does feel remorse for his actions. He says that he doesn’t love Millie but his thoughts and actions say otherwise. I think Beaty lied to him about Millie reporting him entirely just to make Montag’s day more shitty because that is the type of person that Beaty is. The book being written also has some great things. Like there is a part where the word was is italicized, which means it’s supposed to be emphasized. But the way in which you do that changes everything about the sentence. It goes hopeless to desperately clinging onto a lie to a weak cry of grief to bitter and angry to poetic. The way the firemen talk to Montag could go from being “Montag are you alright we are worried for you” to “hey Montag, your really scared of a mechanical hound? How fucking stupid” to “what is it now Montag, so tired of this guys shit….”
And that’s great! That’s what makes books so so cool, the fact that everyone will read it a bit differently. 451°F also isn’t really shitting on TV or even the occasional mindless show, it’s warning you to be critical of what you consume and to THINK about it. The characters aren’t thinking they are just mindlessly consuming things that say and do nothing. TV isn’t the problem, the problem is the fact that these people don’t think at all. And it’s not even their fault. They aren’t stupid they were forced into this roll. Given Montag said about being a fourth generation firefighter nobody in his generation even had the chance to read or consume something that wasn’t just mindless. They were born into a broken world and that’s not their fault. Millie and her friends are just existing in the only way they know how, no one has shown them an alternative that actually makes sense to them or makes them WANT to live a different way. Revolutions happen because the people are discontent and you can’t be discontent if you know no other way of life. You need good for something to be bad.
Anyway here’s 9 notes on two pages I’m so normal about this thing.
Rip Ray Bradbury, you would have hated smartphones
Why do I always end up being obsessed with books I read in English class
(Especially the ones that remind me that I’m pessimistic in my outlook on humanity)
(Aka Lord of the Flies)