Fahrenheit 451 - Section 6 Annotation

1. P. 168 ~ 170 - I thought Montag got injured from the first Mechanical Hound, but how can he ran that fast?

2. P. 171 ~ 172 - For now, I dislike the personality of Montag and I thought he is the worst protagonist that I saw. However, I changed my mind that he has ability to be a hero  because he tried his best to protect books and finally found the secret group that he was looking for even though he was injured by the Mechanical Hound.

3. P. 173 ~ 174 - I think this was the moment that has emotional impact. In this scene, Montag and the group was watching TV to see the progress of pursuit. Like what Granger predicted, the innocent passenger got caught by the police and killed by the Hound because the police wanted to end the pursuit as fast as they can. I was shocked again by this scene. Also, I felt that the author was accusing the police’s sloppy investigation by this story line.

4. P. 176 ~ 179 - By listing and explaining the Fred Clement’s plan how to revive the importance of the books to the citizens, the author is emphasizing the importance of the books once again and implying that people would need the knowledge of the books if they fall into the bottomless pit.

5. P. 176 ~ 177 -  I’m wondering that is it possible to memorize all of the books without being discovered because it will take long time to memorize whole book.  

6. P. 177 - The author used metaphor in the scene when Granger introduced the other members of Fred Clement by the authors name of the books that they memorized. I think it was clever way to use literary device because it shows the readers that how much they were confidence about their memorization.

7. P. 179 - Passing memories one to another reminds me the scene The Giver. In The Giver, Jonathan received the memories from the previous Giver. Like this scene, the Fred Clement is planning to pass their memories of book to their children and other people to preserve the books.

8. P. 181 - “...He was individual. He was an important man. I’ve never gotten over his death. Often I think, what wonderful carvings never came to birth because he died. How many jokes are missing from the world, and how many homing pigeons untouched by his hands. He shaped the world. He did things to the world. The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night the passed on” (181). Granger said this to Montag when he blamed himself because he won’t feel sad if Mildred dies. I agree to Granger’s words because Granger’s grandfather did something that someone can recollect him, but Mildred did nothing except watching TV and listening to her Seashell radio that someone can recollect her. Therefore, it is natural to feel the emotions like Montag.

9. P. 184 - I really hope that the author should mention and explain more about the existence of Clarisse. I don’t think she is the character that suppose to appear once in the very first of the book, but the author just made her presence ambiguous.  

10. P. 185 - “Montag, falling flat, going down, saw or felt, or imagined he saw or felt that walls go dark in Millie’s face, heard her screaming, because in the millionth part of time left, she saw her own face reflected there, in a mirror instead of a crystal ball, and it was such a wildly empty face, all by itself in the room, touching nothing, starved and eating of itself, that at last she recognized it as her own and looked quickly up at the ceiling as it and the entire structure of the hotel blasted down upon her, carrying her with a million pounds of brick, metal, plaster, and wood, to meet other people in the hives below, all on their way down to the cellar where the explosion rid itself of them in its own unreasonable way” (185). The passage depicted the scene specifically to the readers about the urgent situation of Mildred and help readers to imagine the scene easily.

11. P. 190 - I am kind of confused and flustered that the story ended so abruptly. I think the author should write the second version of the book!