Burning Bright

"It's perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did...It's a mystery...Its real beuty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences...clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical."

This quote is found in the last section of the novel 'Burning Bright' on page 115.

These are the last words spoken to Montag outside his home before burning Beatty to death. Beatty accuses Montag of not considering the consequences of his actions. Beatty tells Montag that the beauty of fire has its ability to destory consequences and responsibilities. Montag soon turns Beatty's philosophy against him and imposes an "antibiotic, aesthetic, practical" death.

I chose this quote because it gave perception on what Beatty thought of fire. I get from this that Beatty is telling Montag that using fire in a situation, basically is taking the easy way out. If you don't want to do something, you can burn it and it will be gone and there's nothing you can do.

Fahrenheit 451 Part II Summary

In part two "The Sieve and the Sand" Montag recalls his encounter with the professor, Faber, in the park. Montag admits to Faber his unhappiness and emptiness when he realizes his enthusiasm in life. Montag tells Faber his plan of hiding books in the houses of firemen.
Faber shows Montag a new device; the Seashell Radio. With this, Faber can be in direct contact with Montag incase Beatty approaches him. I think this device can be compared to a blue-tooth today. In that you can have it on, and no one will know if there is someone on the other line or not if you're not talking. They could be giving information about a certain situation.
At the end of this section, Montag realizes that his home was the fireman's target. As he threw the last couple books in the bush's.
In today's society, it seems a little unrealistic to be burning books when they can benefit us. But what if one day we were given an oppurtunity to burn all our books because we dont use them anymore? (I referred this question to "The Day Disco Died in Chicago" when a radio announcer stated to take all your disco records to the baseball stadium to be burned because "disco died".)

Farenheit 451

This book is a novel that can become very interesting. Some things in the first third of the novel that stood out were the characteristics of Clarisse, and Montag. They are two very opposite people. Clarisse is a bright person while Montag seems to be a dark person as do the other firemen in the book. Another thing was the persepective of Beatty. This is something that stood out towards the end.
I can see this being compared to today because we are slowly losing the use of paperback novels. I don't think quite as many are being sold today as in the past. There are more options to reading a book; online or on a hand held device.