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Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451. By Ray Bradbury. Who is Ray Bradbury? Interview. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL_y6gtxLvQ. Tribute to Bradbury. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqGQa-Hx110. Suggestion. Audio book.

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Fahrenheit 451

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  1. Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

  2. Who is Ray Bradbury?Interview • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL_y6gtxLvQ

  3. Tribute to Bradbury http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqGQa-Hx110

  4. Suggestion • Audio book

  5. https://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=594&q=salamander+451&oq=Salamander+451&gs_l=img.1.0.0.1553.9735.0.11409.14.11.0.3.3.0.189.1642.1j10.11.0....0...1ac.1.29.img..1.13.1531.JGCkuI2Ml9Mhttps://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=594&q=salamander+451&oq=Salamander+451&gs_l=img.1.0.0.1553.9735.0.11409.14.11.0.3.3.0.189.1642.1j10.11.0....0...1ac.1.29.img..1.13.1531.JGCkuI2Ml9M

  6. Key Elements of Fahrenheit 451 • English 2201 • Comparison/Contrast Essay • Due Date: • Assignment: A society reflects the power of the majority. In a well developed, five paragraph essay compare in terms of theme, symbol(s) and conflict(s) the respective societies of the worlds of Ray Bradbury and Billy Joel. Refer only to “ The Hearth and the Salamander” ( Part One of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury) and “We didn’t start the Fire” ( Billy Joel’s song). I will discuss part 1 on Friday. Nov./02 Day 2 in one class so you must have this part of the book read by this date. Should have entire book read by Nov. 15. Remember this novel is an independent study.

  7. Bradbury and Joel • You may choose another poem or song of your choice but you must check with me first and include a copy of the poem or lyrics with your essay. • Organization of essay: Paper must be handed in folder that will contain all your essays for the year and be stapled in the following order: • Rubric • Cover page • Good copy • Include rough copy but do not staple it to good copy • Words required: 400 words • Double Spaced: 12 or 14 font - please do not use italics or bold!

  8. We didn’t start the fire #1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a2SS0zqmzk

  9. Part 1: The Hearth and the Salamander Fire, Warmth, light, substance, center of home, love, safety, life… Constructive Fire, Coldness, darkness, fear, government, hate, law, punishment, death… Destructive Salamanders live in fire and can’t be destroyed by flames!

  10. Part 2:The Sieve and the Sand • On the subway, Montag feels numb. Flash back: • He remembers a time as a child at the beach when he tried, unsuccessfully, to fill a sieve with sand. • Now he realizes as he holds the Bible open on his lap that if he can read the text in front of him and memorize it, he keep some of the sand in the sieve. • Note: the despairation and despair of Montag -almost as if he is dying or fears his society is self destructing. He hears the planes overhead and does not understand the involvement of 2 atomic wars since 1990. What do you think? • Montag attempts to read a passage but he's distracted by an advertisement for toothpaste. He stands up, screams for the advertisement to shut up, and waves the Bible, alarming the other passengers, before he gets off. • The sand falling through the sieve is a metaphor for knowledge in this society in general, and for Montag's effort to get and keep knowledge in particular. Montag no longer accepts the basic values of his society, and until he can find some other values to take their place, he is lost. Tragic Hero?

  11. Burning Bright • The neighbors come out to watch • Montag looks toward Clarisse's empty house. Guess who notices? • Cpt. Beatty notices and mocks Montag for being influenced by her nonsense. • Mildred runs out of her house with a suitcase and disappears into a beetle that “hit seventy miles an hour far down the street,gone.” (114) • Mildred is so emotionally disconnected that she's able to betray her husband, take off in a taxi to start another life without saying good-bye or talking after 10 years of wedded bliss. Sadly, she can be with her TV "relatives" anywhere. • Poor family…everything gone now. (114) Montag realizes Mildred was the one who raised the alarm. Did you expect this to happen?

  12. Captain Beatty –antagonist personified-does he have his own demons? • Beatty orders Montag to destroy his own house with a flamethrower or get hunted down by the Mechanical Hound. Faber (speaking through the earpiece) begs Montag to run away, but Montag has no choice and burns his house. • Montag, while burning down his own house, remembers the old woman who burned down her house instead of allowing the firemen do it. • What would you do? Traitor? Courage?

  13. Quotes Handout

  14. We didn’t start the fire • #2. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g

  15. 2. Setting, Mood and Atmosphere Mood & Atmosphere: • Rain throughout novel • The war throughout novel Setting: • Sometime in the twenty-fourth century; there have been two atomic wars since 1990 • In and around an unspecified city • Los Angeles • Chicago • The City

  16. War pp.91-92 & pp.158-160 • You could feel the war getting ready in the sky that night. The way the clouds moved aside and came back, and the way the stars looked, a million of them swimming between the clouds like the enemy discs and the feeling that the sky might fall upon the city and turn it to chalk dust, and the moon go up in red fire;that was how the night felt.

  17. War distant yet close…Quick war. Forty-eight hours, they said,and everyone home(p.94) • Mood • ? • Atmosphere • ? • Portents, ominous-a Shakespearean night?

  18. 3 seconds • Mood? • Atmosphere? • And the war began and ended in that instant. Later the men around Montag could not say if they had seen anything…Once a bomb release was yanked , it as over…

  19. The end of novel… • The beginning of a new journey…walking until they reach the city.

  20. When we reach the City…Mood…Atmosphere?

  21. 3. Themes • Themes are the fundamental to a literary work- main idea and connected to purpose of book • Themes are universal ideas explored in a literary work • Can have sub- themes in a work of literature • Suggested themes: • Censorship(the danger of censorship) • Happiness (knowing you are happy)versus distraction ( thinking you are happy) • Conformity versus individuality • Knowledge versus ignorance • MUST create a thematic statement

  22. THEMATIC STATEMENTS The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance-Socrates To thineownself be true- Shakespeare Society honors its conformists and its dead troublemakers-Mignon McLaughlin Wisdom is gained through suffering- Sophocles If they give you ruled paper, write the other way-Juan Ramon Jimenez What about one for truth? What about one about mirrors/symbols?

  23. The Danger of CensorshipMinorities…Political correctness • "Don't step on the toes of the dog lovers, the cat lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchant, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy." (57). • Our civilization is so vast that we can’t have our minorities upset…What do we want in this country above all? People want to be happy… p.59 Capt. Beatty to Montag People allowed censorship. Beatty tells Montag how censorship became necessary: • The problem with censorship is only those in power have access to knowledge. • Raises? Why are there so many suicides and why are they always at war? • If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. Juan Ramon Jimenez

  24. The Danger of Ignorance • Beatty explains, “Let him forget there is such a thing as a war.If the government is inefficient, top heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it." (p.61). • Give them • Peace , Montag p.61Capt.Beatty • Contests • Stuff them full of facts • Clubs, parties, jet cars, pills, T.V.walls, seashells, etc. Discuss: Then they feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving, Capt. Beatty p.61 • The fireman's responsibility is to destroy knowledge and promote ignorance in order to ensure equality. Ignorance, however, promotes suicide, poor decisions, and empty lives. It also allows government to do what it pleases. • AND supposedly breeds happiness through conformity… • So is Ignorance bliss?

  25. The Danger of Ignorance, Conformity and Censorship • In Montag's society, schools no longer teach. They merely fill kids with knowledge and make them think they're smart. • Beatty recognizes that lack of information is not the problem, knowing what to do with it is. What would he say about the Internet?

  26. Knowledge versus Ignorance • Montag, Faber, and Beatty’s struggle revolves around the opposing viewpoints/ philosophies between knowledge and ignorance.. • The fireman’s duty is to destroy knowledge and promote ignorance in order to equalize the population and promote sameness and uphold the law of the land • They were given a new job, as custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior , official censors, judges and executors. That’s you, Montag, and that’s me. Capt. Beatty p. 59 Captain Beatty’s dream (106-107) Knowledge is power! (107)

  27. Internal Conflict • Montag’s encounters with Clarisse, the old woman, and Faber causes in him doubt, and therefore internal conflict about this idea. He is driven to search for knowledge, thus destroying the unquestioning ignorance he used to share with almost everyone he associated with as well as beliefs upon which his society is founded.

  28. Motifs • Motifs are recurring structures, contrasts, and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes.

  29. 4. Animal and Nature Imagery • Animal and nature imagery pervades the novel. Nature is presented as a force of innocence and truth, beginning with Clarisse’s adolescent, reverent love for nature. She convinces Montag to taste the rain, and the experience changes him irrevocably. His escape from the city into the country is a revelation to him, showing him the enlightening power of unspoiled nature. • Much of the novel’s animal imagery is ironic. Although this society is obsessed with technology and ignores nature, many frightening mechanical devices are modeled after or named for animals, such as the Electric-Eyed Snake machine and the Mechanical Hound.

  30. Animal Imagery and How it is Ironic By: Jonathan Mallay

  31. Animal imagery, how is it ironic in Fahrenheit 451? In the novel Fahrenheit 451, the use of animal imagery is quite ironic compared to real life. Many of the animals portrayed in the book contradict the way they act and exist in real life. Additionally, nature is not respected in Guy Montag’s society, ironically though many key technologies are named after animals. The Mechanical Hound and the Electric Eyed Snake are both examples of ironic animal imagery in the novel. Jonathan Mallay

  32. Mechanical Hound further explained The Mechanical Hound is described as a frightful creature, which Guy Montag is afraid of. This contrasts greatly to how dogs are viewed in real life; a companion of man. In real life dogs act as companions for the firemen, by sniffing out the injured to help in rescuing them. In the novel the Mechanical Hound performs the opposite tasks of a traditional dog; it is enforcer that kills those who disobey the laws set by the government. They are not the companions of the people, they are the enemy, sniffing for their next target. "That's sad," said Montag, quietly,(referring to The Hound) "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."  Jonathan Mallay

  33. Electric Eyed Snake further explained Snakes are most often viewed as a threatening, lethal creatures in real life, contrarily in the novel, the Electric Eyed Snake saves lives by pumping out the toxic substances within a person. The Electric Eyed Snake is a savior in the dystopian society whereas in real life it is viewed as a bringer of demise, that injects lethal toxins rather than sucking them out. “One of them slid down into her stomach like a black cobra down an echoing well, looking for all the old water and the old time gathered there. It drank up the green matter that flowed to the top in a slow boil.” Jonathan Mallay

  34. 5. Symbols: the titles of part 1 and 2 of the book, the phoenix, mirrors • Blood • Fire • Books • Hearth • Hands • People/characters • Places • Titles of part 1 and 2 and 3 • The Phoenix • Mirrors /Walls • Technology • Religion

  35. Symbolism by Arman, Josh and Andrew • Symbols

  36. Characters: major and minor Guy Montag Captain Beatty • Clarisse • Mildred • Faber (Pencil) • Clarisse’s uncle • Granger • Granger’s grandfather pp.155-158 life’s lesson and wisdom Major Minor

  37. Introducing characters In order of appearance

  38. Guy Montag: Protaganonist

  39. Character of Guy Montag By: Brooke Robson And RabeccaSnelgrove

  40. Guy Montag • Montag is the protagonist of Fahrenheit 451.  He is not a perfect hero. But you can sympathize with Montag’s mission, the way he works for his goal seems clumsy and misguided. When he starts reading books for the first time, he is often confused, frustrated, and overwhelmed but also guilty. Sometimes he feels like he loses control of himself. His actions can be quite horrific, like when he finds himself setting his supervisor on fire, but they also represents what he really wants which is to rebel against the normal and find meaning to his life. • Montags relationship with his wife, Mildred was once very close and full of love, but eventually becomes quite distant and lacks interest in one another. Deep down Montag loves his wife and really cares about her and wants to take care of her but overall they aren’t very close, Mildred watches television mostly and refuses to engage in meaningful conversation with her husband about their marriage and each others lives, she seems uninterested in Montag and finds him hard to understand him and doesn’t really care to either . Neither of them even remember how they first met. Brooke Robson & RabeccaSnelgrove

  41. Symbolism of Guy Montag • Fire, Heat and Light. Montag’s character is a symbol of fire, not only because of the burning of the books in this story but also because fire can be a symbol of anger or guilt burning inside of him, When Montag senses Clarisse’s presence, it’s because he feels body heat. At the end of the story he finds fire as a source of heat and comfort. Showing that fire can be good and bad, destructive and also constructive. Much life Guy Montag’s character. • Another source of symbolism brought out in Montag’s character is when he strips himself of his clothing and runs into the river, he is a man who went through many identity crisis's therefore this is symbolizing him leaving the old Montag behind and cleansing himself of his old identity and also all his guilt and issues. So that he can take on a new identity and move on with his life. The fact that another man is captured and killed in Montag’s place is a great importance in this moment. RabeccaSnelgrove

  42. Contrast of Montag • He is careless. • He is a fireman and is considered a hero on the “good side” • Burns Books • At the end of the novel the character of Montag changed drastically the cold careless old Montag transferred into an insightful optimistic character . Beginning of the Story End of the Story Brooke Robson

  43. Contrast between Montag and Beatty • Married • Montag is the protagonist. • Burns books • Montag’s faith in his profession and his society begins to decline almost immediately. • Beatty is a complex character, full of contradictions • cared passionately about books. • He is quick to stress that he prefers his life of instant pleasure. Brooke Robson

  44. Quotes • “and suddenly remembered that something lay hidden behind the grill, something that seemed to peer down on him now. He moved his eyes quickly away.” • “Montag had done nothing. Is hand had done it All, with a brain of its own, with conscience and curiosity in each trembling finger, had turned thief.”

  45. Character of Clarisse McClellan By: Rhiannon Cooper and Matthew Raske “What a shame, she said. “You’re not in love with anyone.” Pg 22 – Fahrenheit 451

  46. Clarisse McClellan • A young girl who has independent thoughts and knows who she is. • Has strong beliefs and enjoys reading books and gaining new knowledge. • Changes Guy Montag’s perspective on life and on his situation. • Clarisse makes Guy question his position in the community he lives in. • She is the reason why the plot unfolds the way it does and sets a spark off inside Montag. • Understands what is right and what is wrong. • Determined, bold and innocent. (MR,RC)

  47. Clarisse McClellan - Symbolism • Symbolizes the change that unfolds throughout the story • How? Inspired Guy Montag to challenge common beliefs and alter his reality within the community. This is achieved by Clarisse sharing with him her perspective on life. • Quote: “Are you happy?” pg10 • “People don’t talk about anything” pg31 • Clarisse interrogates Guy and slowly changes his perception of life. • Guy is inspired to do what’s right for his community and alters his situation thanks to Clarisse's influence. (MR,RC) http://www.postavy.cz/foto/clarisse-mcclellan-foto.jpg

  48. Clarisse McClellan - Contrast • In a world where citizens are afraid to open a book, Clarisse McClellan provides a stark contrast through her love of life and knowledge. • Quote: “Sometimes I am ancient” pg 30 • “What incredible power of identification the girl had.” (Said about Clarisse) pg11 • Clarisse is visibly different than the rest. She is more mature than those around her and provides a contrast between knowledge and ignorance. • Clarisse is wiser, acts older and has insight. The other citizens of the town are lacking in these areas. Clarisse shows a contrast between these two very different traits. (MR, RC) http://f451news.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/1/3/12138403/8655874_orig.png

  49. How did Montag know… Once, long ago, Clarisse had walked here where he was walking now.(145) The railway track…was the path to wherever he was going. Here was a famliar thing, the magic charm… A world of silence but not emptiness.

  50. The Dandelion • “ ‘We cannot tell the precise moments when friendship is formed. As in a vessel drop by drop, there is a last drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is one which makes the heart run over.’” • “Montag sat listening to the rain.” p.72 Part 2 Montag reading from a book to Mildred after Clarisse’s death Cold November Rain

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