STAYING POWER

After reading, the things that stay to me is the action between the characters, either if its love, violence, breaking laws, or an emotionally state that the character was put in. Maybe it the fact that you can relate or have a general idea of how they're feeling. As well as imagining your own way of the setting where it being taken even adding the details that the author gives us. What doesn't stay with me are those descriptive details towards items or other people that aren't really main characters.

My Big Question/November

My Big Question is why cheat when you can talk to your partner and speech your truths. After a long time being together, shouldn't you be able to express your feelings and thoughts to one another? 

MY MEMORY OF READING

As a class, we left on when Mildred had woken from overdosing the night before. Montag was surprised that she acted normal as if nothing happened. Afterwards, he went to work where the firefighters were called in for duty. They had to do some cleaning and burned an entire house with books. The owner of the house decided to burn with the books and referenced to a quote by a man named Lamiter who told that to another guy when they were burned alive. After looking around the house, Montag took a book that he had read the first line of it. He went home to Mildred and out of curiosity, he asked her when they had met. Mildred didn't know the answer to that question as if it didn't matter. Montag was used to the routine that he had with Clarisse as they walked in the morning together was now gone. Few days later, Montag asked Mildred if she knew what had happened to her. Mildred said she was dead and her family had moved out. Montag was in shock and eventually got sick.

F451 Summary Part 1

In Fahrenheit 451, the main character, Guy Montag works as a firefighter in a dystopian society. As he works, his main job to to burn books and track down who has them. Montag loves to fire things as its been a part of his entire life. He was heading back home alone walking in the streets. His new neighbor, Clarisse, makes a move and talks to Montag. She tells him facts about the society they live in. She doesn't know anything about Montag but has an idea of what he might be living through. By the way that Montag stutters in answering the questions, she knows more about Montag. As he headed home, he was looking for his wife, Mildred, as she was seen on the floor overdosed by a bottle of sleeping pills. Montag calls immediate medical help to only find out that Mildred was going to be treated by two complete strangers. The cases was so often that anyone could do it. After they left, Montag stayed up thinking how long did all of what had happened to Montag actually happened? He noticed Clarisse's family. Her family would be considered "abnormal" since they all talk together instead of watching the television screen. The next day, Mildred seem like a new person from the new blood that was inserted from the operators. Montag noticed as she had made breakfast. Later in the evening, Montag and Clarisse were walking in the rain. She questioned Montag to try to get him but he was having a conflict within himself not knowing how to feel anymore.
Montag goes off to work with the other firefighters. He has his own reasons in why he thinks the Mechanical Hound doesn't like him. Montag thinks its because of his conscience that the Hound knows something. He had been talking to Clarisse everyday and he feels like he has known her for many years. He had a routine with Clarisse and splitting their ways afterwards. He woke up as usual and was waiting for Clarisse, but she hadn't appear for anywhere. They were called-in to a case of a woman whom house was full with books. Beatty, the leader of the firefighters, asks the woman to leave the house as they are going to burn it. She refuses and she gets hit by Beatty. Montag tries talking to her in leaving but doesn't want to go. Kerosene was poured on the floor and she had a kitchen match and lit the house. She died with the burning books. Montag is in disbelief and he thinks in why she did what she did.

F451 & ME

In Fahrenheit 451, Mildred always uses her "seashells" to find calm and relief. Today we use headphones or beats to hear music, talk on the phone, or even a way to block other communication. Mildred always uses her seashells so she is an expert on lip reading. Montag talks to her and she doesn't have to hear him. Today listening to music where no one else hears but you is soothing. Talking on the phone because there's a built in mic in where you can talk in. You don't carry your phone in your hand. Other people use headphones to block communicating with other people passing in the halls. It might not have music and it still has the same affect. People don't want to look dumb as they're trying to talk to a person that is listening to music and not get a response back.

Books are being burned in F451 and nobody seems to be bothered. Today we rely on technology for everything even research. Online research is faster and there isn’t a need of skimming through books. Since there isn't any books, no body knows about their own history, the mistakes that are being repeated. Today, we know everything and lies that aren't even true. People's attention is drawn with drama, rumors, and yet we believe in it. In the little things that don't matter, we pay all attention to it. The drastic events, such as natural disasters, crisis's, we don't pay much attention to what's happening. When it comes to technology, we want to get the newest and fastest.

Technology, itself is being used. In Fahrenheit 451, Mildred tells Montag to install another screen wall to their house. This way she is able to talk to her "friends." Today, we use a screen to communicate to other people. There is nothing wrong with that unless you overuse the power of it. To message, call, face-time people we use a device. Mildred talks to people that aren't even real and barely talks to her husband who usually is within her distance. As today, we can be hanging out with friends and still notice that there are phones being used. There are new people you can make "friends" with but you're losing interaction with a person that is right in front of you.

The Right To Read

The choice to read is ours, not somebody's else. Why take away the right to read? It's our responsibility to inform ourselves about the past and the present. Without the past, there's is no future ahead from us. Many will argue that teenagers don't read anymore since they're always on their phones. A person will pick up a book if they choose it. They have to be interested in reading the book if not they're just reading words that have no meaning. Since President Trump thinks its okay to outlaw reading, where would he get his information from? Social media, new reporters, random websites that contain nothing but lies. Its pretty safe to say, he doesn't have information himself besides Twitter. They only way of communicating he does is through Twitter and his speeches. Although he says he is going to do things, he really can't. His actions and his words are more like a dictator's. Luckily, we have the Legislative and Judicial Branch to save us. You wouldn't know either if you didn't read it out of a textbook. What happen to Hitler? We all learned this through a textbook or a biography. Its important to keeping reading from going to into extinction.

20 Questions

1. The hearth is a fireplace and the salamander are what the firemen named their trucks by.
2. In the lines of page 1, the reader can make the assumption that Guy Montag is obsessed with fire. He likes watching things burn in ashes, where there’s nothing.
3. The imagery that is given to the fire hose has a negative imagery to the reader that the fire hose has a bad role in the plot. The author wants you to memorize the fire hose.
4. Montag's fire-helmet is the number 451 which symbols at the temperature in what books burn.
5. Clarisse McClellan is described as "slender and milk-white" with the look of curiosity.
6. Clarisse and Guy are both the main characters in the story.
7. She questions Montag with sudden questions and keeps going. Montag doesn't have time answer because he over thinks each question and doesn't have a conclusion.
8. People drive so fast that they recognize blurs as objects. Clarisse's uncle got arrested because he was only going at 40 miles an hours. Another thing is that billboards are stretched out in order of it to be read and long lasting. Clarisse's uncle was also arrested for being a pedestrian.
9. The comparisons that Montag makes of Clarisse are the clock and a mirror. The clock because she knew so much of the bad society and keeps moving along with it. The mirror because she reflect in what Montag seems to be but his inner self isn't. She made himself question by asking with he was happy. Montage didn't find that answer to himself either.
10. Montag realizes that he isn't happy as if he was wearing a mask.
11. The "Seashells" are earbuds. Mildred listening to the ocean which she hasn't been there in person.
12. The reference to her face seems as if she's paralyzed, controlled. In Mildred's face, there was no sign of hope just darkness, emptiness. She didn't care whether if she was breathing or not. Their marriage isn't happy and loving; its darkness.
13. There was two machines: one looking like a long pipe that goes down the throat and the another replaces the old blood with the new blood. The operator didn't seem to care as he smokes a cigarette in the middle of a medical process. The men weren't even doctors but they did have people calling in from overdosing on sleeping pills.
14. The comment what to the fact that stranger came to his house and took Mildred's blood out and he hadn't seen those men ever in his life.
15. In Clarisse's house there is more happiness and in Montag's there's depressing, sadness, loneliness. Clarisse's house was lit and the other houses were asleep in the darkness of their daily routines.
16. Montag wants to be happy to see that Clarisse is happy with her family and he isn't. He doesn't want to live those seconds. He takes a sleeping tablet in order for him to go to sleep.
17.  Mildred doesn't remember anything but she does say that she feels like she has a hangover of a wild party. When Montag explains to her that she has overdosed, she denied it and went on with her life.
18. The psychiatrist asks Clarisse what she does in her free time.
19. The Mechanical Hound was like a robotic dog. Montag was bothered by the Hound because it always seem to attack him, as if it were to have some sort of hatred towards him.
20. The woman had said a few lines in the beginning as they walked in. She made a reference to Latimer who was burned alive for the opinion he stood for. The woman would rather die than live in the society that doesn't contain books, knowledge.
21. The youth practices as going to school. They are tired by the end of the day that they either go to bed of have to bully other people at parks. They run street races and do what ever they want. Their  parents aren't strict as they were to Clarisse when she misbehaved. The killings from one another have go up. There could be tons of people and they'll just talk about the same thing over and over again.
22. The people are put into an asylum but the firemen think there's crazy for having books.
23. Benjamin Franklin built the union of firefighters in the US.
24. He compares the books to the white pigeons because the words of knowledge are pure.
25. He read a line from the book and took the book with him, hiding it. He just did it not thinking, out of curiosity.
26. Beatty knows about the burning of Lamiter and he did research himself.
27. She had been on her seashells listening to people from far away places.
28. The parlor walls were for Mildred for her to talk to her relatives. If everyone has parlor walls, then nobody gets together for a reunion anymore.
29. Mildred was so busy with herself that she forgot something important as Clarisse's death.
30. Mildred didn't seem to care about the death of the woman because she wasn't related to Mildred. That it was her fault in why she had died the way she died. Montag was angry because he hadn't though thoroughly about what he was doing for a living. He was being reasonable about how an author expressed his thoughts and feelings for it just to become history under a fire.

STORY OF MY LIFE

       It was like any October morning, chilly and lazy, full with chaos in the living room, kitchen full with food, and the bedroom lonely. My fatigued mother took care of annoying kids, yelling and running, while I accompanied my mother doing the laundry downstairs. The kids stayed with my father upstairs and he didn't mind because all the kids are scared of him, so they sat down on the untouched coach. My father had to go to work and dismissed us with a warm hug and kiss. 

"Stay here with the kids while I go put detergent on the clothes. I'll be back," said my mother as she grabbed the detergent bottle and left. 

I thought to myself, could i really take care of kids younger than me if i care barely take care of myself?

The kids all started running and yelling, again. I was getting bugged with them, so I left to the bedroom. I locked myself because I knew they were going after me. They started banging on the door loudly that I thought the door was going to fly off. I still didn't know how to do a lot of things that my average age would be able to do. 

One thing that I did know how to do very well was turn on the television. Although I could turn the television on, I didn't know how to turn the volume down. It was about that time of the year where only scary movies would show up on every channel.

Damn what luck i have, right? I was terrified of horror movies so my first instinct was to yell as loud as I can. The kids heard me and all ran to the door to see what was wrong. Ironically, they can't see through the door. They all went to call my mother, which she was talking with the chatty neighbor.

They tried to all explain, which they failed at, so they all end up pushing her towards the kitchen when she realizes that I'm screaming from the top of my lungs. 

"What's wrong?" She realizes the door is locked. By her knowledge, she knows I can't unlock the door. What a difficult task for a 4 year-old?!

"I can't open the door!" I started crying. My mother puts her ear on the door and hears screaming and asks, "who's with you? Who's yelling?"

The television was still on and I tried turning it off until I saw my worst nightmare, Chucky. I ran back to the door and started crying even more. "Chucky!"

My mother calls my father, knowing he was at work a few blocks away. He was excused and came to the house as fast as he could. 

"I could kick the door down!"

"Wait! She's right next the door crying!"

"Then what to we do now!"

"Call the firefighter and take her out from the window!"

"No! It can't be that difficult to do and besides... she's crying! Go for the screwdriver!"

My mother goes for the screwdriver and she's hears nothing but gasps of my crying and the noisy television. My father examines the doorknob and sees there's nails on the outer part of the door. He starts unscrewing the doorknob as my mother talks to me to calm me down. 

After 10 minutes of unscrewing the rusted nails, they slowing open the door just to see me laying on the brown, carpet floor. My mother turns off the television and holds me. She notices my red, puffy eyes.

"Gigi... Gigi..." No movement. 

"Gissel!" 

Little did they know I had fallen asleep from all that crying. I woke up in relieve to see my mother and father. Lesson learned: don't avoid little annoying kids and lock yourself in the room.

SO THIS GUY GOES FOR A WALK

Ray Bradbury wrote “The Pedestrian” because he shows how all televisions at 2053 would be turned on and how the streets were always empty after 8. He gets pulled over by a police man and gets questioned in why he’s walking the streets. He asks the questions and the police man doesn’t believe in what he’s being told. The fact that walking wasn’t “normal” in the society makes you in disbelief that it could actually happen. Mr. Mead seems cool when he gets pulled over because he knows he was telling the truth. Although the officer didn’t believe him, Mr. Mead didn’t deny it. The plot of the story was so realistic because of the details Bradbury inserted to make you feel present. He also describes the society we are growing to become. That makes the plot scary.

My Author, My Hero

Jane Austen

In Thoreau's Words

 "Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."

Translation: the day you're alone, you'll know more at yourself. Describes you as a person.

When you lose yourself, you're likely to be alone. Although being alone might sound like a bad idea, it isn't. Its healthy for you and eventually others. You'll find your own personal traits, talents and as you interact with your friends, they'll notice a change within yourself. Its fine because you're loving yourself and others at the same time. Most people can't do that yet. Usually its because we're attached to something or someone. Most people, including myself, are always stuck of their phones. Why? Probably its that notification that goes off. Change that, listen to yourself, mentally and physically. 

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

Translation: Looking at something/someone doesn't mean I'm focused in it. Describes you caring.

In a day, you look at so much that you don't even remember what you saw. But when something catches your eye, you take a long pause and look at it. You remember it clearly either if its for a few days, months, years. The value that it has, you'll remember it.

"Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. so live the life you imagined.

Translation: You can't find yourself, you make (decision/behavior) yourself. 

How are you going to find something that you know doesn't exist? You imagine it. You know the way you want to be looked at based on how you behave, talk, and your unique personalities.