http://www.stop-smoking-in-1-hour.com/denial.htmlPlease choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.
“[Fire’s] real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.”
In the book, Beatty says this quote to Montag as he attacks him. I strongly disagree with this quote because I think that fire builds up responsibility and consequences. In the story, firemen burn books because it’s illegal. The specific reason to why books are banned is because government is afraid that people might go beyond what they know and cause a problem like beginning a generation of racism. Another reason is because now that the technology is more developed, people don’t need books; they can just go on internet or watch television for information. When the books are burned how are people going to study? Will they think at all? What are the parents going to say to their children? First of all, are they being good parents just by watching television all day long? Fire is the criminal. When the fire burns everything that humans have what are we going to do? Fire is going to keep on building responsibilities on people by giving them pressure to think about their future. If we don’t have any responsibility in the world, our environment, I mean the earth will vanish. Water will be contaminated and we will have animal extinction because people can’t control themselves. Fire will not only build up responsibilities, but soon, kill people. People will suffer because they have nothing left for them.
In the book, Beatty says this quote to Montag as he attacks him. I strongly disagree with this quote because I think that fire builds up responsibility and consequences. In the story, firemen burn books because it’s illegal. The specific reason to why books are banned is because government is afraid that people might go beyond what they know and cause a problem like beginning a generation of racism. Another reason is because now that the technology is more developed, people don’t need books; they can just go on internet or watch television for information. When the books are burned how are people going to study? Will they think at all? What are the parents going to say to their children? First of all, are they being good parents just by watching television all day long? Fire is the criminal. When the fire burns everything that humans have what are we going to do? Fire is going to keep on building responsibilities on people by giving them pressure to think about their future. If we don’t have any responsibility in the world, our environment, I mean the earth will vanish. Water will be contaminated and we will have animal extinction because people can’t control themselves. Fire will not only build up responsibilities, but soon, kill people. People will suffer because they have nothing left for them.
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I believe that Beatty said this quote because he was referring to the main message: information is dangerous.
In this book, people allowed the government to think for them because they were afraid of the responsibility and the consequences of thinking and learning.
I think that the fire that Beatty was talking about was a specific fire, or the fire that destroys the books. This fire represented the murder of information/knowledge that people wants to avoid because the fear of having to think and know while accepting the consequences.
This quote showed depth inside the author's main message!
Great job finding it~ :D
Have a great rest of Lunar Break!
A very interesting post. You understand the very essence of the quote. Mrs.Mc.
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