Fahrenheit 451 - Section 2 Annotation

1. P. 60 - Clarisse said that many teenagers are killing each other in these days in their society. I think this scene can connect to our present days because many teeangers even adults are addicted to the violent video games and once they were addicted, it’s hard to distinguish reality and the world in the game. Therefore, they commit the crime in subconscious situation.

2. P. 61 - Beatty said that someone purposely set a Mechanical Hound to his own chemical complex and let it loose to suicide. Like I mentioned in previous section, something is going on with the Hound. The author won’t mention the minor details if he doesn’t need.

3. P. 61 - Where is Clarisse? Is she okay? How could Montag forget her existence and realized later that she is gone, when he cares her?

4. P. 64 - I disagree with the fireman’s rule book. It says, the first fireman is Benjamin Franklin and explains about how to burn book. It must be fabricated by someone maybe government to hide the fact that the firemen were able to prevent fire in the past.

5. P. 66 - The author describes the scene that firemen and police are searching for the books as a crime scene. For example, the author phase the sentence like “THe police went first and adhesive-taped the victim’s mouth and bandaged him off into their glittering beetle cars… You weren’t hurting anyone, you were hurting only things!” (page 66)

6. P. 67 - The author used a literary device which is personification simile on the books.(Actually, he describes the book as a pigeon.) For instance, “Books bombarded his shoulders, his arms, his upturned face. A book lit, almost obediently, like a white pigeon, in his hands, wings fluttering.” (page 67) It makes me to feel that books are struggling to not get burn.

7. P. 68 ~ 69 -  This is a part that woman refused to go out of her attic when the firemen tried to burn every books in her house. At the end, she ignored Beatty’s final warnings and she died with her books. I was shocked because I didn’t expect that they would just leave her alone with the books and just let her die. Beatty did warn her and Montag tried to persuade her, but I think they should forced her to get out of it because I believe that the human life is much more important than the books. Also, I wonder that why did the firemen so hurried to burn all the books. I mean they could take time to persuade her, so everyone can be safe.

8. P. 67 ~ 71 -  I first thought Montag is tough and emotionless guy since his job is a fireman. However, after he met Clarisse, he express more emotion and interested in books. For example, he stole one of the books from woman’s attic and he was depressed because of the woman’s death.

9. P. 73 - In this scene, Montag and Mildred had a quarrel because they couldn’t remember where or when they met their spouses. I think the author tried to tell readers something deeper which is the negative results of severance of conversation and the influence of TV programs. The severance of conversation made them insensitive to each other. The TV programs made them stop thinking and empty their thoughts.

10. P. 74 - I’m kind of confused with the relatives that lived in those walls. Is that just photos and video displayed in the wall or what?

11. P. 82 - I wish the author could more explain about why Mildred refused to call Beatty that Montag is sick.