Ray Bradbury is an extraordinary writer. He has such passion for what he does and you can see it in his works of literature. His passion and drive to want to write these amazing pieces of work shine through when you read them. Even when he speaks you can feel it.
Listening to the interviews of Ray Bradbury made me truly understand his passion for his stories. He grew up loving cartoons and fiction. This is what made him the amazing writer that he is. When i first picked up Fahrenheit 451, i wasnt really interested in it. I didnt think i would want to read the book at all, considering im not really into fiction. I ended up really liking the book, and listening to the interviews gave me the rest of story behind the purpose of writing the book.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
Fahrenheit 451
To not know your own history, to not be able to understand the past, to be cluless about the decades and centuries before your time would be uncomprehensible. Thinking about it from this time period, if i did not know my past how would i know anything. I would feel stupid.
Thinking in the perspective of the setting the book is in i would probably feel no shame or harm. I would feel, in a sense, smart considering no one knows anything about the past.
Fahrenheit 451 made me question the existence of our future. Could something like that really happen? As the generations come many things change and maybe, in a way, something like that could possibly happen. The world does evolve and is becoming more and more complex, but with complexity comes the ignorance. Soon enough the younger generations to come could become so ignorant to the past that they would rather burn it than learn it.
Clarisse to me wasnt strange at all. She may have seemed crazy to people like Guy Montag, but in all reality, she wasnt crazy. If she was crazy then how did she manage to make Guy Montag question his career. Instead of crazy i would say intelligent. She knew deep down firemen used to stop fires rather than start them. Everyone just labeled her as crazy because they didnt want their secret out. They didnt want people thinking it was okay to enjoy books.
At the end of the book it says, "the men turn upriver toward the city to help the survivors rebuild from the ashes." These men, "retired" professors and intellectuals, hoped the war would come and basically erase all that anyone knew (which wasnt much considering they burned books) so they could restart and bring books and knowledge back into the world. They wanted to be able to teach and read books, they wanted the world to appreciate its past present and future in no other way than by learning about it.
Thinking in the perspective of the setting the book is in i would probably feel no shame or harm. I would feel, in a sense, smart considering no one knows anything about the past.
Fahrenheit 451 made me question the existence of our future. Could something like that really happen? As the generations come many things change and maybe, in a way, something like that could possibly happen. The world does evolve and is becoming more and more complex, but with complexity comes the ignorance. Soon enough the younger generations to come could become so ignorant to the past that they would rather burn it than learn it.
Clarisse to me wasnt strange at all. She may have seemed crazy to people like Guy Montag, but in all reality, she wasnt crazy. If she was crazy then how did she manage to make Guy Montag question his career. Instead of crazy i would say intelligent. She knew deep down firemen used to stop fires rather than start them. Everyone just labeled her as crazy because they didnt want their secret out. They didnt want people thinking it was okay to enjoy books.
At the end of the book it says, "the men turn upriver toward the city to help the survivors rebuild from the ashes." These men, "retired" professors and intellectuals, hoped the war would come and basically erase all that anyone knew (which wasnt much considering they burned books) so they could restart and bring books and knowledge back into the world. They wanted to be able to teach and read books, they wanted the world to appreciate its past present and future in no other way than by learning about it.
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