Thursday, April 15, 2010

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".)

1 comment:

  1. I like the comparison of the blue too and the seashell radio, i think that it shows a connection to how our world could be turning into Montags world!

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