Which secondary character is the most important in the novel Fahrenheit 451? Explain your choice.
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Which secondary character is the most important in the novel Fahrenheit 451? Explain your choice.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Dear DMB,
I affirm your message, that Clarisse is the most important, because it is mostly true. Faber did help out Guy with his pursuits. Also he helps me confirm that this change to the area is recent. One sentence that you wrote that stands out for me is “Faber is an accomplice and a aquaintance,” I think this is usefull, because it wraps up the general point of Faber.
Another sentence that I accord was: “Faber gives Montag the initiative to overthrow the fire houses and cease the burning of books,”
This stood out for me because, it was the only other sentence in the blog, other than that it was Faber. But also because it puts into depth of why you believe this.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Dear MKD,
I affirm that your message, Adelaide is the most important character, because she change montag. She makes him snap and take a bible. One sentence that stood out to me was ” also she showed him how valuable these books are, and “gave” him the Bible.” I think this is accurate. because without her death montag would not have had thoughts to overthrow the firehouses.
November 4th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
I think that Clarisse is the best choice for the seconddary person in F451. She is the one who made him think more about reading books. Also that before this time people read books for information. I believe she left a big impact on Montag’s life, and that’s why she is the secondary person.
November 4th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
I think the most important secondary character in Farenheit 451 is the lady on 311 elm that committed suicide. I think she is important because her killing herself made Montag wonder what was so special about books. It really made Montag curious to learn more about books and what are in them. I think her death makes him want to explore why the books were so important, So important that she committed suicide.
November 4th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
I heartily agree with you R.P. It is undeniable that Professer faber is the most important person in this story. Without Faber this story would have been over long ago.
November 4th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Dear, AP:
I agree with your message because it says that Clarisse helped Montag start to have fun and read books. Without her he would still be a boring, dull person who just burns books. ” Her free thinking has Montag going against society.” I like that quote because i think it’s true.
November 4th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Dear, JLR i dont think mildred has much of an effect on this book. She isnt really significant. The only real part she has in this book involves the parlor walls but nothing else
November 4th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Dear,B.B.D
I agree with you in every way. I think that Faber is the most important character next to Guy Montag.
November 4th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
The most important secondary character in fehrenheit 451 is faber he knows what montag is going through and trys to help him figure out what is happenig in the world and how to fix it.
November 4th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Dear, DJS:
I agree with you that Clarisse McClellan is an important secondary character because she did put other ideas in Montags head. Some of her ideas made him wonder about books and about the world outside of his lifestyle. One sentence you wrote that stands out to me is..”he started to question his job and marriage” Because I think that Clarisse is the reason that he started to question things.
November 4th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Dear, BBD
I agree with u that faber is the most important secondary character
November 18th, 2009 at 9:39 am
In Fahrenheit 451by Ray Bradbury, the story is told from 3rd person point of view, but revolving around Guy Montag. In the book there is another key character: Professor Faber. The plot is very interesting, yet dismal at the same time.
The plot of Fahrenheit 451 is in the future in the United States. It is a time when people are brainwashed by Parlor Walls, which are televisions that cover the walls. People are paranoid and careless. Books are outlawed so the parlor walls are the only source for new information. There is a war going on in the story and bombers are constantly flying overhead causing tremors in the ground and rumbles to break silence and add more drama to the story line.
Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books instead of stopping fires like the ones in our society. He begins to regret the decision to be a fireman after meeting Clarisse McClellan who after words dies. After the death of another woman he witnessed commit suicide he wants to overthrow society. He also begins to read books even though it is illegal.
Montag decides to go talk to Professor Faber who agrees to advise him in the overthrowing of society. Faber is an old professor who knows the book people and has his own library. He is clever and willing to make a difference. Together they plot to destroy the firemen’s reputation and loyalty by planting books in the firemen’s homes. Montag narrowly escapes the mechanical hound, which is a mechanical spider used to sniff out books and people, after murdering his fire chief. He follows Faber’s advice and finds the book people; who are people who commit a book to memory and then burn the book so they do not get caught. In the end, which I found too much of a cliff hanger, Montag continues to live with The Book People.
I would recommend this book to people who like science fiction and an un-happy society in the future. I personally found the book interesting because it has a similar story line to one of my values: the future is what you decide, not what someone else decides for you. In a book I value action adventure with lots of fights and conflicts between people. If you like a dismal future, dramatic and adventurous science fiction book then this book is for you!
November 18th, 2009 at 9:40 am
This is my Book Review of Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. The whole book is 3rd person. It never says “I”, instead, “he”. However it tells the story of Guy Montag’s life. It takes place in a dystopian future, where books are illegal. The book tells Guy’s life where he tries to find out the importance of books.
Guy is the main character of Fahrenheit 451, but another important character, is an old acquaintance of Guy’s. Professor Faber helps Guy throughout a better part of the book. One of the people he met, Clarisse, may be argued to be a main character, however her contribution is little. She helps Guy shake loose of this futuristic dystopia. Adelaide (an old unofficially named woman who commits suicide for her books) though she has even less time than Clarisse, served as the one that made Guy change his opinion totally.
Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a dystopia somewhere in the future. It takes place in November, the exact year unknown. A rough estimate would lead one to believe it was in 2044. This is so because Faber, an old college reading professor and friend of Guy’s, had a chance to change everything. He is around 70-80 years old. 1994 is specifically mentioned in the book, meaning something important happened on that date, they said they’ve had two wars since 1994. Faber also says that you “just can’t pick up a book you laid down half a century ago,” giving evidence that the change happened 50 years before present. 80-50=30, perfect age for Faber to have been a professor, and 1994+50=2044.
The climax is when Adelaide (old woman) kills herself with Guy as a witness. This is so because it forces Guy to realize the importance of books, and that someone would die for their books. The resolution is when Guy kills Beatty, because that sets him up for being on the run. Also the final resolution is when the authorities want to give their audience what they want; they kill “Guy” only this man was an innocent bystander. With the world thinking that he is dead, Guy is free to continue his life with the “Book People” a group of people who memorize books in case books are once more allowed, and burn them after they have memorized.
I would not recommend this book to most people. It is a good book, but most people do not understand that it is good for the type of book that it is. It’s not going to have the action and adventure of the Harry Potter series, nor is it going to have the action and romance of the Twilight series. I value a book that tells a good story. I would much rather be entertained rather than read a book with so many large words that it’s more like a dictionary than a book.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:41 am
The book Fahrenheit 451 was a very good book. I thought the way that Ray Bradbury put the story together was very weird. The story involves a lot of suspense with the main characters. I would recommend this novel to people that like to read science fiction novels. A goal of mine is to find a book to read that I would read for the rest of my life over and over, even though this book was very good it was not it. I value reading a good book and this book is very good and mysterious.
The story is about a man named Guy Montag who lives in a very backwards society in the year 2044 in Illinois. The story is told by a narrator in 3rd person. Montag is a fireman, but the fireman do not put out the fires, they start them. Montag is married to a woman named Mildred. Mildred is very selfish and all she cares about is herself and her parlor walls. Montag does not like the life that he is living and he wants to change his whole life.
Throughout the whole novel, Montag is trying to find out what he wants to believe. The whole novel reaches the climax when he kills his boss Beatty because of him threatening his friend Faber. The story would not be the same without Clarisse. She is the one that makes Montag try to figure out what he wants to believe. The story ends very oddly and you will not really know what happened.
If you like to read science fiction novels then you would probably like this book. There is a lot of mystery and suspense in it. The book keeps you guessing on what is going to happen next. I felt it was a very weird novel and I have never read anything like it. I really enjoyed reading this book and I would read it again anytime.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Guy Montag murders his Boss, a Mechanical Hound, & Knock s out two Co-Workers…..
Chaos? …. This is what happens when you live in a futuristic world a couple days before war where technology has taken over books. In This world that people believe books are useless and are forbidden (illegal). Montag is a fireman and in this world firemen don’t read books they burn them. Montag’s life is peachy clean with no regrets and worries until he meets a 17yr old girl Clarrise McCellan who opens Montag’s eyes with her penetrating questions on his empty life.
Leading up to this chaos is the disturbing events that happen soon after meeting Clarisse.
• His wife tries committing suicide by swallowing a bottle of pills
• He witness a woman burning to death with her books by her choice
• Clarisse has been hit and killed by a speeding car
Montag is now curious about these books. He starts wondering “What is in books that are so important and good that a woman would die for and with her books?” He then starts stashing books from people’s houses when he is on duty. His wife Mildred doesn’t agree with what Montag is doing but she just shakes her head and watches her television show and listens to the radio. Montag starts noticing he really doesn’t have a wife and becomes unhappy.
One day Montag reads a Poem to Mildred and her selfish friends. They become disturbed and leave saying “This is why no one reads this Mildred leave in a cab knowing that she had told after seeing her leave. He figured it was the Mechanical Hound who had sniffed out the books he put outside but it was his wife right after her friends. Beatty forces Montag to burn his books, Montag burns the whole house with some of his books they have found. Beatty later threatens to harm Faber, one of Montags friends that trash”. Montag is later called to duty when they get a call alert. Beatty, his boss knows exactly where they are headed unlike Montag, until they stop right in front his house. Montag watches share the same interest in books such as him. He then kills Beatty and the Mechanical Hound.
Montag on the run….. Before running to Faber’s he plants books in some firemans yards to draw some of the heat off himself. When getting to Fabers they plan for Montag to run upstream and follow the old abandoned train tracks and them two to meet up in St.Louis and meet a retired printer to hopefully have a chance of bringing books back to life.
While on the run Montag runs into Granger, the leader of The Book People, a nationwide network of people who memorize pieces of literature so they won’t have to read books but only in their minds. Montag then becomes a part of them and they plan to find survivors after the war and start a new civilization with books.
[[I would recommend this book to a friend because it’s pretty interesting on how Ray Bradbury looked at the future from 1950. There is also a lot of unexpected events in the story such as when Montag kills Beatty, so it keeps you interested.]]
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November 18th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Fahrenheit 451
I would suggest Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury to only certain people. I personally did not really like it. I would suggest it to someone who likes action or future books, also who has a good imagination. I liked the book in some ways. I did not like the fact that they did not value education, I value education. I like when it got to the climax of the book that is when I started getting into it, but when the climax started going down into the resolution I got bored again. The firemen in this book burn books; I have always known firemen as putting out fires not starting them. I would have liked it better if it was not as complicated; it was like it jumped from scene to scene.
The two main characters were Guy Montag and Beatty. Montag is a firefighter that is trying to figure out what is so good about the books, and why people commit suicide over books. Montag is the protagonist because Montag is the one that is getting picked on my Beatty, and also Beatty is trying to put things in his head. Beatty is one of the main firefighters who tries to educate Montag about history. Beatty tries to tell Montag about the fireman’s code, which is every fireman, go through a stage of doubt. Beatty is the antagonist because he is trying to get into Montags head about history, books, and firefighting.
The exposition in the Fahrenheit 451, it starts out when it was just Montag and Mildred. That is the exposition because everything was calm and Montag starts questioning his self when Clarisse comes in the picture. Clarisse is a young girl who has a mind of her own because she does not watch the parlor walls. The climax is what got me. Montag kills Beatty, I never saw that coming. Fahrenheit 451 did not really have a resolution, so it just left it hanging and there could have been so many possible endings. I think I would have liked it better if Ray Bradbury actually had an ending to it and did not leave it hanging because that makes you wonder.
The setting is in the future and a war was going on it was a very violent place to be. It was in Chicago. It was in November, around November sixth. Everyone’s mind was run by the government, and no one was allowed to read books. When Montag was on the run after he killed Beatty Faber told him to go across the river. Faber left to, he was going to go to St. Louis. The war had been declared when Montag and Faber left. When Montag got to his destination the city had been bombed.
Montags story was told by a third person narrator. I would have understood it better if Montag had written it. It confused me because it was basically jumping from character to character. If Montag could have wrote it from his point of view then I would have understood it because Montag would have been talking about his self when he was on the run, when he was burning books, and when he was hiding books.
To sum it all up, I think it would have been a better book to read if I could imagine things, also if I liked reading about the future. Montag should have told the story, instead of having it in third person narrator. I do not think the end should have been just left kind of like a Clift hanger. I would recommend Fahrenheit 451 to someone who has a good imagination, and who likes to read about the future. I would also suggest it to people who like books that have action in them.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:43 am
MY ENGLISH CLASS READ THE BOOK FAHRENHEIT 451°, BY RAY BRADBURY. THIS IS ABOUT A DIFFERENT TIME PERIOD IN THE FUTURE IN WHICH FIREMAN START THE FIRES INSTEAD OF PUTTING THEM OUT AND THEY BURN BOOKS SO THAT NO ONE IS SMARTER THAN ANYONE ELSE ALSO BECAUSE THEY ARE FILLED WITH FLUFF AND VERY INSULTING TO SOME. GUY MONTAG WHO LIVES WITH HIS NOT SO NICE WIFE MILDRED WHO ONLY WANTS HIS MONEY TO BUY PARLOR WALLS AND TO TALK TO THE FAMILY ALL DAY. THE SECOND CHARACTER TO WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN IS CLARISSE MCCLELLAN WHOM IS A CHATTY LITTLE GIRL WHOM IS 17 YEARS OLD AND QUESTIONS IF MONTAG IS REALLY HAPPY WITH HIS LIFE OR IF IT ALL IS JUST A FANTASY. THE STORY TAKES PLACE IN NOVEMBER IN CHICAGO WHERE IT IS LIKE A FUTURISTIC SOCIETY WHERE NOTHING IS REALLY THE SAME ANYMORE.
MONTAG’S STORY IS TOLD BY A THIRD NARRATOR’S POINT OF VIEW, I KNOW THIS BECAUSE INSTEAD OF MONTAG TELLING ABOUT HIMSELF, CLARISSE, AND MILDRED, IT IS SOMEONE ELSE TALKING ABOUT MONTAG’S STORY AND WHAT HE DID TO GET HIMSELF OUT OF TROUBLE. THE PLOT OF THE STORY IS ABOUT MONTAG AND HIS STRUGGLE TO UNDERSTAND HIS POINT OF LIFE AND SOCIETIES WAY OF LIVING. LASTLY HE MEETS CLARISSE AND GETS CONFUSED AND STARTS TO QUESTION THE WAYS OF THE FIREMAN. THE CLIMAX OF THE STORY IS WHEN MILDRED CALLS IN THE ALARM AND THEY GO TO MONTAGS HOUSE AND BEATTY STARTS TALKING WEIRD TO MONTAG ABOUT THE BOOKS THAT HE HAS HIDDEN TO TRY TO GET MONTAG TO GIVE HIMSELF UP SO THAT THEY DON’T HAVE TO GO IN AND LOOK FOR THEMSELVES THEN BEATTY SPOTS THE SEASHELL RADIO AND THREATENS TO TRACE IT BACK AND BURN WHOEVER IT IS SO BEFORE BEATTY COULD MONTAG SET HIM ON FIRE WITH THE FLAME THROWER, AT THE END OF THE BOOK MONTAG GETS AWAY FROM THE CITY AND ONTO THE RAILROAD TRACKS WHERE HE FINDS THE BOOK PEOPLE THAT HELP HIM AND WHILE HE IS WITH THE BOOK PEOPLE THEY SEE THAT THE CITY GETS BOMBED A DAY AFTER HE ESCAPES FROM THE CITY AS WELL AS FABER.
I RECOMMEND THIS BOOK BECAUSE IT IS VERY WELL WRITTEN AND IT IS A GOOD BOOK, MY GOALS WERE TO TELL YOU IF THE BOOK IS WORTH THE TIME TO READ AND IF IT IS GOOD OR NOT. I VALUE BOOKS THAT TEACH YOU SOMETHING BUT ONE THAT IS ALSO TRUE BUT FICTION ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:44 am
Fahrenheit 451 Review
Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury takes place in a futuristic world where firemen actually start fires and burn books because it is illegal to read books. It is illegal to read books due to the fact they are supposedly filled with nonsense and is filled with fluff. Another reason is that they want control of them so why give them the knowledge that could interrupt that conquest of control. The two main characters are Guy Montag who is a fireman and lives with his wife Mildred who only wants money for Parlor Walls which is like our version of a TV. The second character is Clarisse an odd child in her life who is the person who makes the story a story. Clarisse is an odd child because to everyone she is the one who questions life and thinks on her own which to other people is strange. She is 17 and questions Montags life and happiness for his job and his wife. The story takes place in the fall in supposedly Chicago which is in the United States. The novel is told by a narrator.
The first novel tells of the uproar Montag has with himself and what society wants of him. He soon meets Clarisse who questions him and starts the uproar meaning the confusion he starts to feel. Since he has been stealing books from those he destroys the homes of he starts to feel the confusion boil up inside him. The Climax is when his boss finds out he has been keeping books thanks to his obnoxious wife and kills him. After that Montag becomes a fugitive and runs away with the help of Faber who has secretly had books in his possession as well. The resolution is when Montag finds others like him and starts a new life by memorizing books and leaves his old life behind.
What I value in a book is clarity and a meaning even if it would be impossible for something like that to occur. I was not a fan of this book because I was not drawn into it like I wanted to. It has its ups and downs when I read it. Some parts would be interesting and the others very droll. I was not given the clarity I like to have in my books. It had a huge cliff hanger at the end which I am not a fan of either. Honestly, I could not be drawn into it as I would like to. I would recommend this book you if you like to read the futuristic books with action and Ray Bradbury then this is also for you. I would not recommend this book if you like comedy or the romance or the fantasy or hate a lot of foreshadowing and cliff hangers. So while it has you drawn in a little bit you have to read it very carefully and it is not as clear as other books.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Imagine living in a world where books have no purpose and firemen start fires instead of putting them out. The novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury has a futuristic setting where the society is based around parlor walls and not by individual beliefs, values and ideals. The main character and protagonist of this novel is Guy Montag. Guy Montag starts to change his ways after meeting a young girl, Clarisse McClellan. She is the reason Montag begins to think twice on his society. Captain Beatty is the antagonist and captain of the firemen in the novel. He gets a complaint that illegal books are in Guy Montag’s house. The firemen and Montag arrives at Montag’s home to do their work. Montag does not realize what they are doing until they are in front of his home ready to burn. Montag becomes bewildered, scared and nervous. The climax of the story begins when captain Beatty threatens to harm Montag’s close friend Professor Faber and Montag is forced to kill Captain Beatty.
The setting of the novel takes place in the future somewhere around Chicago in the United States. A war is going on in the background of the novel and is starts off as a small conflict and rises to become a dramatic change for the characters. The society in the novel is very wealthy with little concerns and worries. Most of the people in this society have different values and ideals which is different from ours today in our society. Technology plays a big role in our values and ideals as it does theirs.
The story’s main focus is on the protagonist, Guy Montag. Guy Montag makes a living as a fireman and is also married to Mildred Montag. After meeting a young woman Montag starts to think twice on his society, ideals, and values. The character that antagonizes Montag is Captain Beatty. Captain Beatty is the captain of the firemen and the person whom causes Montag to break mentally in dangerous ways. Captain Beatty does this by playing and toying with Montag’s mind, feelings and emotions. Through the narrators omniscient the reader can only grasp the thoughts and feelings from Guy Montag. This is a great way to show the main character’s values and ideals. I believe the story’s point of view is third person narrator.
I would recommend this novel to my peers. I believe this novel is very easy to follow and read. Fahrenheit 451 is a great science fiction novel which keeps the reader on the edge of their seat. The main character is a dynamic character which kept me interested in the novel and I wanted to follow his every step. I value a good novel that you can relate to the main character in many ways so you can have a better understanding of that character. This novel had a fast and interesting start which kept me fascinated and determine to keep reading right from the gate. I love a book that start off fast and does not let the reader to lose interest. The climax was breath taking and left me speechless. This novel Fahrenheit 451 was an all around great book and I would recommend this book to others.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a interesting science fiction book that I would only tell people who like science fiction to read. The main characters, Guy Montag and Beatty, are very different from each other. The story of Guy Montag’s life is told by a 3rd person narrator. Montag is a fireman. In the society they live in, fireman start fires instead of put them out. Montag was caught in a society that he was too smart for. He is a kind and caring person. It wasn’t until a friend came along that he saw that in himself. Beatty was Montag’s captain. He was the opposite of Montag. Beatty got caught in the society, and wasn’t smart enough to get out.
This book takes place in a futuristic time period. It takes place in Chicago. This society is a very harmful society. The people in the society have been brainwashed. They wouldn’t let them read books. If you were caught reading books in your home they would come to your house, burn the books, and take you to a mental hospital or kill you. The government brainwash them through the parlor walls, which are walls in one room that each have a television on them.
The exposition in Fahrenheit 451 was when Montag met Clarisse. Clarisse started telling Montag that he was too good for this society, which he was. Faber, a man Montag met who was a book reader, said books were the key to knowledge. Montag started to believe him. Montag got some books and started to read them. He kept some in his home. This leads up to the climax. Beatty found out that Montag had been stealing books and Beatty went to Montag’s house. The firefighters came there and burned all the books. Montag had been bullied by Beatty ever since he has worked as a firefighter. Montag finally had enough when Beatty threatened Faber. Then, Montag shot Beatty. The resolution was when Guy Montag ran away after shooting Beatty. They couldn’t catch him, so they just told the people in the society that he was caught. He got away and went to a new society where they were allowed to read books.
I would recommend this book only to certain people. This is a very mature book. I do not think that it should be read by people that aren’t mature enough for this book. I value books and I don’t like that in this book they burn books.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:52 am
The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is about a society that burns books. Firemen in the book actually burn books because it’s illegal to read books. In this society the firemen start fires rather than put them out. Also people think it’s wrong to read books that’s why the firemen burn them. The main character is a man named Guy Montag. He is one of the firemen that burn books. Another main character is his wife Mildred. She is a person that isn’t very concerned about much. She is obsessed with a wall of television. They are called the Parlor walls and its society’s way to control the community.
In the book Guy Montag meets a girl named Clarisse McClellan. She is different from everybody in the society. She is the one who makes Montag rethink his life, his job, and his marriage. She is another important character because she is the reason why a lot of things happen in the book.
The book takes place somewhere in Chicago. The time period in a futuristic world. The society is a harmful society. People in the society commit suicide. Also they are brainwashed by the parlor walls. In the book the Captain of Fireman is an antagonist his name is Beatty. He is the one that knows that Clarisse had an effect on Montag. To make him think about books and make him wants to read them. He pushes Montag to the point where Montag ends up killing him.
This story is told from 3 person perspective. I would recommend this book only to people that like future or scientific books. I value that Montag was willing to change and stand up for himself. That’s why I would recommend this other people.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Fahrenheit 451
In Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag (the main character) is a fireman, a different kind of fireman. He lit fires in order to burn books to keep the people of a futuristic Chicago from having individual intelligent thoughts. One day after work Montag is coming home from work and he starts talking to a young woman named Clarisse and she tells Montag the secret about books that her uncle taught her. In the very beginning his wife Mildred overdoses on her sleeping pills and denied it. A woman who lived on 311 Elm Street lit herself on fire for books and that made Montag think of what books had to offer.
Beatty (the fire chief) catches Montag with books and tells him to burn it. Montag burns the one book but not the others. One day they show up at Montag’s house and begins to search it. They find the books and Beatty makes him burn his own books and then tells him that he will be arrested after. Infuriated with Beatty, Montag decides after the mental beating given by Beatty to ignite him with the flame thrower and kill him. The mechanical hound is a spider like creature that finds the books. It has a Novocain needle in its mouth that it uses to essentially paralyze whoever gets in its way. Montag also lights the mechanical hound on fire with the flame thrower. After that Montag is on the run with former scholars one who seemed to be the leader was named Granger.
I do not recommend this book to any of my friends because it is confusing in the beginning and you have to read to almost the middle of the book in order to understand it. It is a very good book but some people cannot understand it as I have heard some of my peers say. The book was told from a third person perspective. I was not connected to this book because as soon as I got the feeling that “Hey! I got it,” it changed and I was completely wrong up until the end and I still did not like the book
T.S.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury wasn’t a good book. I did not like this book because it did not go with my ideals. My ideals are vampire books. I love reading vampire books. The main character in the book was Guy Montag. Who I think the secondary character is Clarisse McClellan. The setting of this book is somewhere in the future. They are at war, and it is November. The exposition of the story is when Montag meets Clarisse. The climax is when Montag kills Beatty. The resolution is when Montag joins the books people. The book people are people who read books and remember the book word from word then they burn them. The book is told in 3rd person.
The reason why Montag meeting Clarisse is so important because she is the person who made Montag start thinking about his job. The reason why I think Clarisse is the secondary character because she starts everything. She made Montag think differently and question life. The part of the story of when Montag is so important because that was the turning point in his life. After he did that he was on the run homeless, and only had one person to turn to Faber.
Faber is a retired English professor. The reason why when Montag joins the book people is so important because he has finally found a group he fits in. The war started when Montag met Granger. Granger is one of the people in the group.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
In the novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury focuses on burning books because it was illegal to read and have possession of books in society; but Guy Montag starts to question it all when he meets Clarisse McClellan. When Montag meets Clarisse, she asks him questions about things no one ever talked about. The more Guy Montag thought about what Clarisse said the more he started to question things such as his job and his marriage.
Montags story is told from a third person narrator. In the novel he uses certain words that tell you that his story is told in a third person narrator. It all started when Montag met Clarisse and they started talking about things that people usually don’t. The climax of the novel is when Guy Montag started to question everything including his job, as a fireman, and his marriage. He started doubting his beliefs because Clarisse had different point of views that Montag never viewed that way before. Montags solution was to start reading books which led to him running and meeting Granger.
In the novel, they are at war in the United States. The setting is in a variety of places in the U.S.; but the important events take place when Montag is walking home from work where he meets Clarisse. Another important place is at Montags house where the books were stashed. Also, in the woods where Montag met Granger.
I would recommend this novel to a friend. Montag and I share the same values and beliefs. I value relationships with family, friends, and marital partners. Montag values his relationship with Mildred, which is his wife. In conclusion Montag changed his beliefs and decided to read literature.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Fahrenheit451 Book Review
Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury is a very interesting novel. Written in third person point of view, it tells a portion of Guy Montag’s life. It takes place in a time of war and confusion. The time is somewhere in the future during the month of November.
Guy Montag is a fireman whose job is to start fires instead of putting them out. He loved his job and claimed the smell of kerosene was a perfume to him. He then meets his neighbor, a seventeen-year-old girl named Clarisse McClellan who makes him question his marriage, job, and whole life. Guy finally goes overboard when his wife he thought he loved leaves him and his boss threatens his friend. The climax of the novel is when Montag ends up burning his house and his boss captain Beatty. These events cause him to be on the run while trying to find answers to his life.
This book has an ending that its readers will not see coming. I would recommend this book to anyone because it connects with my value of reading adventurous books and with books that keep me interested. It is a very exciting story that you will want to keep reading. Fahrenheit 451 has very well developed characters and an amazing storyline which makes it an irresistible novel to read
November 18th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury starts with firemen starting a fire to a house with many books. In this time period books were illegal and if you had books firemen would burn the books and you were arrested. The only way to get information legally was the parlor walls. The climax of the story is when the main character, Montag, killed the head firemen, Beatty. All because he threaten Montag’s last friend, Faber. Montag decides the best thing to do is to run and hide from the beetles. He swims across the river and tries to start his live all over again. Montag is the main character of Fahrenheit 451. He is one of the firemen in the story. He does take some of the books from the sites he burns down, and reads them to get more information. He and his wife, Mildred, don’t talk much, because Mildred is stuck to listening to the parlor walls. Clarisse is my choice for the secondary person of the story. She is a 17 year old girl that knows a lot about the past. She told Montag that back then people read books for fun, and information. This got Montag into reading books more. She ends up dying in the story by getting hit by a car so they thought.
The setting of F451 takes place in the future with an unknown year, and takes place November. In the back ground of the story there are several wars going on. The point of view of the story is a third person narrator.
I personally wouldn’t recommend this book to a friend. Ray Bradbury makes the story confusing and hard to follow along. I would have to read a paragraph multiple times to get what it was saying. Some of the times I still didn’t get the paragraph. The beginning of the story made you not want to read it because it was so confusing. It got better close to the end is my opinion. Also it doesn’t go with my ideals and values. Book is something I value in my spare time and the books were illegal.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
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In the novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury. The main character is Guy Montag. He is a fireman; his job is to start fires not to put them out. In the future of the November. War broke out; they had to stay inside of the parlor walls. Ten years of being a fireman, for the Chicago’s best fire station. This had been changed by feeling.
In the novel, the most important secondary character is Professor Faber. Faber helps Montag understand what’s so important about books. When Beatty threatened to kill Faber, Montag breaks and murders Beatty. Montag and Faber run off to find new life. Montag finds a group of book people. Now knows how great just one book with a person can be.
I would recommend this book Fahrenheit 451. This book deals with trust, friendship, and how books are useful. I value books because they are for knowledge so you can learn from other story. One of my goals is to go to college and be a profession boxer.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Blog Book Review:
The book Fahrenheit 451 is a very interesting book to read. In the book, there is a main character named Guy Montag. It takes place during a war in the future around November in the United States. Montag had a wife named Mildred. Mildred only thought of herself, and had no interest in Montag. She was caught up in socialism and entertainment. With that said, she affected Montag, and she was self centered. Montag was a firefighter, and his boss was named Beatty. Clarisse was another character in the novel. She was a 17 year old woman that knew very much about books, which is not allowed. She changed Montags perspective on life; she pushed him to the limit and made him take action. Montag was already hiding books and attempting to read them, but Clarisse really made him wonder, especially after her disappearance. That was mainly the exposition.
When Montag started taking action, he started feeling paranoid, or guilty in a way. He was afraid he was going to get caught by someone. He also thought that Beatty knew what he was hiding. In the beginning of the novel, Montag and the firefighters went to burn books at this one woman’s house on 311 Elm Street. She decided to not leave her house for her possession of the books, so she decided to die with her books. This disturbed Montag very much. When he got home he was very upset and did not act like himself. It was then, he decided to stay home. The reason why he did so was because once again he felt guilty.
The other important character is Faber. Faber is an old man that Montag met two years earlier than the setting in the story. Faber is who Montag turns to when he has nothing left of himself. Together, they fight their way through trying to figure out a way to escape the contact with everyone. The climax of the story is when Montag kills Beatty with the fire. He kills him because he does not want him to ruin the plan that him and Fable came up with to decrease attention toward them. After that, Montag and Faber escaped the city and went to the book people where they met Granger. Granger was the leader of the book people. Together they found their way out of crime. Mildred was no longer with Montag, and he had nothing left but to start over with a whole clean sheet. This is the resolution of the novel.
The novel is a first person point of view. Montag is the person that is telling us his story and his events in his life. This book is very interesting to read because it is very unique and has a one of a kind novel. Ray Bradbury was the author. My value in it was to try and keep peace, and an ideal is to figure out the meaning of books. I would really recommend this to a friend.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 is frightening novel in a fascinating way. I strongly encourage readers to indulge themselves in this book because when reading you’ll experience different emotions towards the characters. I value books for their information; this book shows how life would be without the privilege of reading.
The main character in this story is Guy Montag. He is a 30 year old fireman who likes with his wife Mildred, who is really selfish. Montag’s occupation requires him to burn books; he has been a fireman for ten years. Mildred stays home and watches and spends most of her time watching the parlor walls. Millie cares little for Montag and only wants his money; he on the other hand would do anything for her.
In the beginning of this third persons point of view story, the narrator starts by telling about Montag on his way home one night and he meets Clarisse McClellan. She asks a question that changes his life from then on. “Do you ever read any of the books you burn?” she says. Montag tells her that’s against the law. The Mechanical Hound doesn’t like Montag at first because he knows Montag is hiding something, but later in the novel we find out why. Montag is caught taking books from 311 Elm Street, Montag has been reading books.
The climax of this book would be when Montag kills Beatty with a flamethrower, and the hound. After he kills, Guy is on the run and plants a book at another fireman’s house on the way to Faber. When Montag reaches Faber, he tells Montag to go across the river. Montag meets new friends on the other side. The leader of the group was Granger. This story takes place in the future, in the United States. Resolution is the town blows up.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
FAHRENHEIT 451
Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is an exciting novel because this book will have you thinking thanks to the crazy unreal things that goes on, and will have you wanting more. Fahrenheit 451 is written in the third person point of view meaning a narrator tells the story of Montags life. Using words like he and Montags name itself. The setting of Fahrenheit 451 is actually in the future, in the United States and also most events take place in November. So as you can see I recommend this novel so you too can read some exciting things that will have you thinking. So give it a try, it’s kind of frustrating at first and some parts are confusing but once you finish it will be worth it!
Guy Montag is the main character in this novel and is a fireman. In this society, firemen do not put out fires they start them! The reason behind starting fires is to burn the houses which contain books! Clarisse is a young woman who Montag meets walking one day. Clarisse changes everything for Montag because of her unusual thinking and questions. Clarisse asks him things like why he is a fireman? Does he think about what he is really doing? When he burns books also she asks him if he is happy doing it? Considering all of this montags thoughts are changed and he also starts acting out. The other characters cannot believe Montag!
In the exposition of this novel Montag meets Clarisse and starts changing everything! The climax of this novel is when all of the sudden Montag brings out to mille that he has been stashing books. Montag also starts to read in front of her and other people to finally get some answers. In the resolution Montag finally gives up fighting becomes part of the book people who hide in the woods and starts a new life.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 is about a man named Guy Montag who has been burning books for over 10 years and meets one girl, Clarisse McClellan, a 17 year old, who makes him wonder why is he even burning books, there could actually be knowledgeable information in them; and some people may even value them.
Montag’s story is told by a 3rd person narrator. I would recommend this book to a friend because the story line is good and it keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole book. Montag values his knowledge, family, and friends, and so do I. In Montag’s world burning books is illegal and I do not think that is right.
The climax of the story is Montag’s murder of Beatty. Montag before was already put up with Beatty but when Beatty took Montag’s book it got on his last nerve. Then Montag burned Beatty. The resolution is when Montag meets the book people and finds a place where he can be himself.
Mildred is Montag’s wife; she does not care about anyone or anything but money and the parlor walls. She is very selfish. Eventually Millie and Montag’s relationship goes down the drain. The setting of the story is in The United States, in the future when firemen start fires, rather than putting them out. It is sometime in November and the city is at war, not peace.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
The novel, Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, is about a man that burns books for a living, but when he’s caught taking books from a house he runs away. The exposition plot of the story starts when Montag a fireman that burns books meets a girl named Clarisse, and when a lady kills herself and Clarisse dies he realizes there is more to life. The climax of the story is when Montag kills his captain Beatty. The resolution of the story is when Montag escapes the city and finds the book people then the city is bomb and everything blows up.
The main characters of the story are Montag and Faber. Montag is a fireman that is sent to burn somebody’s house that is suspected to have books in it. But he takes books from the houses and gets caught. Faber is an old retired English teacher that meets Montag at a park. He helps Montag to escape from the police and the hound.
The time and place of the story is in the future at sometime on Nov.3. The book takes place somewhere near Illinois or Missouri. Real time and place unknown during war. The point of view is in 3rd person point of view. Yes, I would recommend this book to somebody that likes to read mysteries and strange things a lot. For me books represent intelligence and importance. The book is very interesting, not for all people only for people that like to read.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a good book. The story line is good, and the setting fits perfectly with the story. The main character is Guy Montag. He is a guy who is confused about what is right and what is wrong. He goes through a point in his life where he has to decide what he should do. It fits with my goal of doing something good for the world that benefits it.
Guy meets this girl Clarisse. She showed Guy a different way to think in a world where firemen make fires not put them out, and in a world where people are being brainwashed by their own government. Guy starts to read books, which is forbidden, and is questioning the law. Guy is a fireman and he has to hide the fact that he was breaking the law. Guy after that was lonely; he did not know anybody that shared his dilemma.
Faber is a key character to the story. He is a professor that understands what Guy is going through. Guy and Faber make a plan to plant books into firemen’s homes and turning them in. But before that happened Guy got caught with books in his house, and the person who turned him in was his own wife. Beatty was on his trail the whole time. Guy himself had to burn his house down. In the process Guy’s boss, Beatty found out about Faber, and he threatened to find him and arrest him. That made Guy mad, and eventually leads him to kill Betty. After that he was on the run from the authorities. Guy got away and the authorities faked his death. Now he lives with a group of homeless scholars of the past. They are people all around the country who still believe in books and what they mean to the world.
So in conclusion this is a good book with a setting that is set in the future and characters that go through drama in their life, which makes the book interesting.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Montag is on his way home from work where he meets Clarisse. Clarisse gave Montag a dandelion test . A dandelion test is when a dandelion is rub on your chin. Well, It didn’t go well for Montag because he failed it. That means Montag is not in love with Mildred. Clarisse is an important character because when she was gone Montag started to read books. The important characters are Montag and Clarisse.
I probably would recommend this to a friend because the story is really interesting. Montag is reading books because of Clarisse is murdered and the woman killed herself because of the books. This story is made in the 3rd person narrator point of view. The war started in the 1990’s in the future. I think this happened in the 2044.
The plot of the story is the events that happened. The exposition is Montag started to read the books. The rising action is when Montag meets Faber for the first time. The climax is when Montag kills Beatty because he threatened Faber. The falling action is when Montag meets Faber after he killed Beatty. Faber told Montag to swim across the river so, Montag did and meets granger. The resolution is that Montag reads books with Granger in the forest.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Fahrenheit 451 is a story how a man named Guy Montag begins an epic struggle against society, ignorance oppression and curiosity. It all begins on a night home from work when Guy meets a young girl named Clarisse McClellan. She began to talk to Montaug about his views on his job and what he does. In the society he lives in, Books are outlawed to be kept in possession or read by anyone. As his curiosity sparked by Clarisse’s discussion, he investigates why these books are so bad that they have been made illegal. As a fireman, Montaug’s career is to destroy literature of all kinds. After secretly taking a book from a woman’s house he was burning, he begins to read. After reading not only this book but many others he had accumulated he discovers that these books are not as evil as that they are solely people’s voices, thoughts, and ideas being thrust into people’s hands. Montaug visits an old friend named professor Faber. He and the professor discuss the book Montaug had stolen which had happened to be the Holy Scriptures. Together, the both of them plan to deliver the well deserved revenge on the firemen who senselessly destroyed the lives of so many people.
The next day when Montaug arrived at work, an alarm rang and Montag, the captain Beatty and the other firemen left the depot and began to drive to their destination. The truck stopped and the firemen got off and quickly began to vent windows for the coming burning, and then Montaug suddenly realized that they had arrived at his own house. He saw his wife Millie quickly leaves the house, suitcase in hand, and head straight for a waiting taxi. Millie had finally succumbed to the pressure of the stashed books and called in the alarm on her own husband. Montaug out of anger torched the home including the Parlor walls, his and Millie’s bed, and then… Captain Beatty. Montaug was now a fugitive on the run from the law. Now with no one to turn to he desperately ran away from the city, and met a group of people known as the Book people. These people where outcasts of society for their fear of being caught with books so a small consortium was created to protect literature. It is here that Montaug finds refuge and is where our story draws to a close.
I enjoyed this story because I thought that it contained more than a story but a new way of thinking, there are societies in this world with very similar rules and guidelines to the ones expressed in the novel. Mr. Bradbury certainly knows how to make people think and wonder about how their world will be in the not so far away future. This was one of the best novels I have ever read and I give it 2 thumbs up!
Guy Montaug and Professor Faber are most assuring the most important Characters In this Novel; In fact without either one of these men, nothing would have changed
Fahrenheit 451 took place in The United States of America, (Chicago, Illinois?)
November 18th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Blog Book Review
In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury it talks about a man in a job of burning books. His name is Guy Montag he is a fireman in 451. Whose life job was to burn houses that contained books? Montag was not the kind of fireman that put out fires he would start theme. He lived in a place where books were illegal. Books would have to be burned to ashes.
Montag meets a woman named Clalrisse McClellan. He has a conversation with her. Clarisse asked him if he was happy? Does he really like his job? Montag then starts to think of what she means about that question. Montag, who is a fireman, starts to read books to see what they have in them. Books are illegal at that time and for fireman’s that burn them. Some of the fireman’s are having thoughts he could be reading books.
Montag never liked watching the parlor walls so he read books instead. Then he reads poetry to Mildreds friends that came over. His wife Mildred Montag’s wife then turns an alarm on him. She could not take it anymore of the hiding books and reading so she left him.
Montag is now in trouble and is going to be caught. Montag commits murder and now wanted. Montag runs and hides. He then finds people who like reading books just like him without getting caught. I think the book Fahrenheit 451 is a good book that others should read. This book would be good for anyone who likes drama, action, surprises and more. The book starts slow in the beginning but then when you get into it you will love it.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Book Blog Review:
The Book Fahrenheit 451 is about book and a fireman named Guy Montag, who loves his work. He likes nothing better than to spray kerosene on a pile of books and watch the pages curl and turn into flakes of black ash that flutters through the air. Until the day he meets Clarrise, a young girl who has been told about a world of books thoughts, ideas. Their conversations precipitate a crisis of faith in Guy but Clarisse is mysteriously killed but they all think it was Mildred Montag. Guy gets curious about books and begins to read them and hides his book in his house in something called the Parlor Walls. Montag and Beatty are very close friends they had each other’s until their fallout when they turned against each other back The Fireman’s have a Mechanical Hound that detects where books are hidden/are and Guy Montag almost got caught but the Mechanical Hound but Montag torch the whole house so he wouldn’t he even killed the hound and his EX friend Beatty. The resolution was when the town blows up.
When Clarrise came into the picture things started to fall apart there’s this thing called the Love Test where you put a Daisy under your chin and if it turns yellow you’re in love if it doesn’t then you’re not I think that Guy failed that love test because of Clarisse . On the train Clarisse asked Guy “Why did he burn books” he couldn’t answer but that had to make him think because he got curious and starts collecting his own book from when he goes book burning. When Clarisse gets hit by that car people thought Mildred did it.
The setting of this story is Mid November or the beginning because the suicide incident with the lady name Lillian Moe ‘net who lived on 311 Elm St. Lillian has committed suicide and that change the whole story around Montage and Beatty turn against each other Montag kills Beatty, and Mildred packed up and left Montag.
Montag leaves town and goes with people who actually read books.
But Yes, I would recommend this book because it has a very good point to it and it makes you think why would people want to burn books? I value this book because I like the advantage of being able to read books and not having to hide them so they wouldn’t burn them.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 is a novel written by Ray Bradbury. It takes place sometime in the future. It has events that you never see coming. I would recommend this book to a friend because it has a certain kind of originality and it is very easy to get into it. Also the story is written in third person point of view so it is very easy to understand.
Guy Montag is a fireman, but rather than putting fires out he starts them. He lives in a society where knowledge is very limited and where it is illegal to learn anything that is not told to you. Books are illegal in his society, and it is indeed his job to destroy any books that are found illegally. He has been a fireman for a while now, ten years to be exact, and he believes in the rules that his society has, but will that change? He values his Faber because he is the only person who understands him. I think one of his ideals are knowledge because he wants to be able to learn more.
It takes place in the future where books are illegal. A war is going on at the time in the background of this story. It happens in the United States of America. To be more exact, Chicago, Illinois. It’s a very “bored” society. Nobody knows anything, and nobody can be different. It is in an unfair society and the government is very unfriendly.
It all starts when Mildred, who is Montag’s selfish wife, attempts suicide. While Montag is trying to comfort himself, he meets a seventeen-year old girl named Clarisse McClellan. He meets her while he was taking a walk. She is a very upbeat and moving kind of girl, who just loves everyone and everything. Clarisse and Guy begin to talk more and more. Clarisse, who opposes their society, starts talking about why she does not like it. As she talks about why, Montag starts to wonder as to what is so important about books that would make a girl, whom he just met, try to change his beliefs and his state of mind. Meanwhile, Clarisse has disappeared.
Montag’s fire station gets a call about an old woman that is stashing books in her home. They go to burn the lady’s house down and the old lady will not leave her home. She stays in the fire and commits suicide. Now Montag really starts to wonder, what in the world is so important about books that would make you want to lose your life to keep them! So Montag steals a book from the scene and takes it home. He puts it underneath of his pillow. The day after, Montag did not go to work because he was “sick”. Later on that day his boss comes over and Montag, Beatty, and Mildred were in his bedroom and they were all talking, Mildred feels the outline of a book underneath of Montag’s pillow and tries to call him out in front of his boss. Montag stopped her. Montag was speaking to Beatty in a weird way and Beatty was ready to figure out why. Beatty has become very cruel to Montag.
While sleeping, Montag hears something outside of his window. It was the Mechanical Hound, who was a “dog” who was used to track down illegal books. Beatty finds it odd that the Mechanical Hound does not like Montag, so he sends the Hound Montag’s way. Beatty is onto Montag. Montag meets a professor, his name is Faber and he does not agree with the society either. He also hides books. They become very close and they understand each other very well. They have an earpiece so that they can hear each other all of the time. Mildred figures out that Montag has been hiding books and she becomes very scared.
Mildred was visiting with two of her friends, who are also stuck-up and self centered, and Montag comes home from work. He reads the three of them a piece of poetry. The next day Montag is at work and they get a fire call about a man that is hiding books in his home. It was Montag’s address. They were going to burn his house down. Mildred turned in the alarm on her own husband. This is where the whole story gets interesting. Beatty made Montag burn his own house down. Beatty became aware of the ear-piece that connected Faber and Montag; he took it from him and threatened to get Faber if he did not burn his house down. Montag became very angry; he commits murder against Beatty, other fireman, and the Mechanical hound. Now he is on the run. Helicopters are now over top of the city, News broadcasts everywhere, all looking for Montag. Montag finds four books that Mildred missed; he took them and continued running. He stopped by black’s house, who is a fellow fireman and plants a book in his home. He then goes to Faber’s house and tells Faber goodbye. Faber is going to St. Louis and tells Montag he needs to go down the river. Montag runs to the river and swims down it. He meets a group of older men, who are their own book club. This is how the problem is solved. He becomes a part of them. He is never found and he must stay out of that society forever now.
November 18th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
The book, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, is about a man named Guy Montag who is a fireman that, in this story’s reality, burns books which in this case, are illegal. That was his job for about 10 years of being a fireman until he starts to think books could be more useful then what everyone tells him they are. Once he starts to care for books he starts to stop caring for his job. During nearly this whole book, he tries to find himself & answer the question: why are books burned? There are many interesting events in this story, like the mechanical hound, which is a machine with a dog’s body & legs of a spider, whose job it is to find illegal books that people have in their household.
Montag is a fireman & a husband. He is interesting & will get more interesting later on in the book. Guy Montag is very intelligent & smart, but also ignorant in what he is doing & what’s around him every once in a while. What Montag values decreases as the story goes on but most of the time he values books & his friends like Fabor or Clarisse. He might value his wife, Mildred, but doesn’t value him much. Soon meets a seventeen-year-old girl named Clarisse McClellan. Clarisse is very unique, but, in this story, a different kind of unique. Clarisse is “unique” is because she, unlike other people her age, will not hurt or kill the people. She is not violent. She also is curious as to why do people burn books in the first place. I would think she values knowledge & people “with a heart”. Personally I think she is the character who changed Guy Montag’s mind about books.
The setting in this book is very unique. While the entire story is going on, there is a war that is being declared or will be declared in the story. This war will be declared later on in the book. Surprisingly, this story also is in the future too. The country the story begins & ends on is the United States of America. The state it is thought to be on is Chicago, Illinois. Fahrenheit 451 is told by a 3rd person narrator.
I would not recommend this book. The vocabulary of this book is highly detailed & is hard to understand if something really happened or not. Personally, I like book that have a lot of detail, but don’t detail it so much that they even say the actual weather before even saying the main character’s name. I would like this book better if it had less details & more action. If you manage to understand the vocabulary, you will also find that a reader has to be very patient to get to something interesting. I like books that introduce the climax without spoiling parts of the book.
November 18th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
The title of this book is called Fahrenheit 451.The point of view is in third person (narrator). The setting of the book took place on November in Chicago in the near future and they were at war. The most important character in this book is Montag the main character, Mildred the main character wife, and Beatty the fireman chief.
Montag is a fireman that burn books for living. He reads books, but he not suppose to because his society does not allow people to read books because it make you think and have your own mind and that why society do not allow it. Society does allows you to get your information from the parlor walls because they think that is the only way you can get information about something instead of reading books but Mildred Montag wife is in love with the pallor walls. She cares about the pallor walls more than Montag her husband.
When Montag life changes it was when he murdered Beatty his fireman chief. When they search all over the house for books they found a lot of them so they throw them on the ground and burn them. Montag was getting mad but the thing that triggers him off is when Beatty threaten Montag that he going to kill Faber. That when Montag took the flame thrower and lit Beatty up.
Montag resolve his solution by leaving the city and living with the book people.
I would not recommend this novel to my friends because it is a dry book a hard to figure out. I do not think my friends would like this book because it is not the type of book they would read. This book is boring to me because it talks about burning book. I’m not interested in this book because I like to read drama and romantic books that about teenager. This book don’t have any of my interest that I like so I’m not really into this book but it was nice to know what is book burning because I never knew that was such a thing.
1. Where’s the value?
2. What is the goal?
3. Plot?
Ray Bradbury
November 19th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Dear K.A.T,
I agree with your book review. You put a lot of information into it. If I would not have read the book I would have been able to know a lot of information about the book.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:51 am
dear A.P.S,
i think that your review is very educational but i also think that you should have added something in there about the war , also about how the city was bombed.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Dear J.D,
I liked your book review. I would have liked it better if you would have put alittle more detail in it. If I did not read the book I think i would not have understood it as well , because of the less detail in your book review.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:55 am
i agree with your choice because i belive that clarisse is the most important secondary character. She had a big impact on Montag and his choice to read books
November 19th, 2009 at 9:55 am
Dear,JD
I believe that you did a very good job explaining the book. I feel the same way about how you feel about Mildred and how she is’nt concerned about much.
I thought you did a very good jobe persuading a reader.
November 19th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
In the car by Gary Paulsen. Terry is a 14 year old kid. He is abandoned because neither one of his parents liked each other. So one morning they left. Terry hears his phone ringing and answers it. His mom tells him that she will not come back. Then his dad calls and tells him that he isn’t coming back either. So Terry does the one thing his parents don’t want him to do, build the car in the garage. Terry builds the car and goes to his uncle’s house. On the way, Terry meets up with Waylon.
When the truckers throw the bottle at Terry, which makes Terry close his eyes and drive off the road. After that, Terry is different and Waylon is also different. When the cowboys fight with Waylon and Wayne. Then the cops come and Waylon tells Terry to leave. Terry leaves and loses the cops, but he thinks about the fact that he didn’t get his turn when they were trucking and decides to go back to pick them up.
I don’t recommend this novel to other people because there is hardly any action in the story. I value action too much. There is a fight at the end of the novel, but it doesn’t go too deeply into the fight and Terry ends up leaving, so it doesn’t tell you what happened to Waylon and Wayne. Did they lose the fight or did they get busted by the cops? Then Terry goes back and decides to pick them up, but the story ends and it don’t tell you if he picked Waylon and Wayne up are not or change his mind and goes to his Uncle’s house.
The point of view is set in third person view. It means someone else is telling about Terry’s life. The setting takes place in Terry’s house in Cleveland Ohio in the year 1993. My goal is to beat and play every super Mario brothers game there is. I value my mp3 player because it lets me record Mario music, F-Zero music, legend of Zelda music ect. and lets me listen to them anywhere instead of at home.
November 19th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
The Car by Gary Paulsen is a book about Terry Anders. His parents abandoned him, and left him alone with no one. Terry is a 14 year old boy who lives in Cleveland, OH. He is going on a road trip to visit his uncle who lives in Portland Oregon. The climax of the story is when Terry and Waylon get into an argument with a couple of rednecks about them towing a bottle and “The Cat” and making them wreck. The resolution is about when Wayne, Waylon and Terry are in Wyoming and being chased by cowboys.
The setting is the year 1993. The Car begins in Cleveland, OH and ends up in Wyoming. When the story starts out in Cleveland, OH Terry is at his house and building “The Cat”. When they end up in Wyoming Terry, Wayne and Waylon are being chased by cowboys. Terry’s story is told by a third person point of view.
Terry is a 14 year old boy, who is planning to travel to see his uncle, when an unsuspecting visitor, Waylon Jackson comes into the story. Waylon Jackson is a veteran that fought in Vietnam with an old friend, Wayne.
I would recommend this novel to a friend because it is an interesting novel. This book pulls you into the story and makes you want to read more. A value I have is to try to learn from others and try to take their mistakes and also learn from them.
November 19th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
The Book Review of The Car
In the novel The Car by Gary Paulsen Terry is a 14 year- old boy who’s parents has left him. He is building a kit car that his father got for him before he left. Terry is very independent and takes care of himself very well. Waylon is year-old man the terry picks up along on the side of a highway. Waylon is not very smart, and loves Shakespeare. A third person narrator is telling Terry Anderson’s story. I would recommend this novel to others because it is a very interesting story to read and u learn a lot about good friendships. I connected with this novel because I value good friendships.
The Car takes place in Cleveland, Ohio, Nebraska, South Dakota, Deadwood and Wyoming in 1993. Terry built his kit car and is on his way to Portland, Oregon to see his uncle. Terry does not know much about driving but he gets the feel of it along the way. Terry meets Waylon on the side of the road while Terry is pulled over because of the rain. Waylon beats up some truckers for throwing bottles at the Cat. After Waylon beat up the truckers everything changes in a good way between Waylon and Terry. Terry and Waylon meet Wayne at his home. Waylon and Wayne are good friends. They all decide to go trucking and they take turns deciding where to go next. Along the trip they get chased by cowboys up a hill in Wyoming. Waylon and Wayne fight the cowboys and they tell Terry to leave. Terry leaves then goes back to get them so they wouldn’t get in any trouble. Terry tells them that they owe him a turn to choose where to go next.
November 19th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
The Car by Gary Paulsen
In The Car Terry Anders is a 14 year old boy that lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Terry gets a kit car and fixes it up. When he fixes up the kit car he starts to head to his uncle. On the way to Oregon Terry stop to take a break on the side of the road. A man walks up next to the car and the man gets in. Terry does not know him at all. The man tells Terry that his name is Waylon. While they are on the rode a truck rides pass them and throws a bottle out the window and it hit the glass. Then Terry and Waylon end up in a ditch. When they get out of the ditch, they stop at the store and see the men who threw the bottle. Waylon goes in the store and beat the men up. Then they go to get the car fix. One of Waylon’s friends fix it, his name is Wayne. Waylon and Wayne teach Terry about life because Terry doesn’t know anything. At the end of the book Waylon and Wayne get in a fight with some cowboys. Terry jumps in it, and then they hear police sirens. Waylon and Wayne tell Terry to leave. Terry leaves, but the he turn around and go get Waylon and Wayne because it was his turn to choose where to go.
Terry and Waylon are the most important characters. I say Waylon because he has been with Terry a long time. Waylon is a 45 year old man that meets Terry on the side of the road. Terry is a little 14 year old boy that was abandon by his parents.
This story takes place in the 1993 in Cleveland, Ohio. They also went to South Dakota. When they went to deadwood it was in South Dakota. When they was their they told some things about it. Terry was learning different things. Terry Anders is told by a third person narrator.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read. My goal was to finish this book. I value what Terry did to fix the car.
November 19th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
The Car by Gary Paulsen
The Car by Gary Paulsen is about a 14 year old boy name Terry. This story took place in Cleveland Ohio, during 1993.They also went to South Dakota and deadwood.Terry was left alone by his parents he was always home and never got out that much. Terry lives in Cleveland Ohio and he is 14. His parents abounded him. Never go outside that much. Parents didn’t care what he did or where he went or what he did. Then terry parents left him but he did not pay it no mine. Until two days later and his mom called and said she was not coming home and his dad also called and also said he was not coming home. Then terry met Waylon and Waylon was willing to pay terry money to give him a ride. Then while they were riding they ran into some truckers and they threw a bottle at the cat. Then Waylon went to the gas station and the men to apologize, but they did not so things got physical. Then Waylon and Wayne got fighting with some cowboys. The police was coming so they told terry to leave so terry left but then he turned back because it was his turn to chose were they were going next.
Terry was a person who didn’t know that much about history and had a rough time at home. He also is young and inexperienced about the world. Wayne is a person who loves motorcycles and loves to work on cars. He also like to go trucking and go places he never been. This story about Terry Anders is written in third person. Yes I have addressed all four literary elements. Yes because it is a very good book and I would read it because it tells you about a young boy who was having a bad life. I valued how after his parents left him he still got around. Like he is able to eat food and have gas and a place to live.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
A Book Review of the Car
In the Car by Gary Paulsen, the main characters are Terry and Waylon. Terry is a 14 year old boy. Terry parents have left him by himself in Cleveland, OH. Terry is on his own now. So Terry builds kit cars and starts his adventure. Then Terry is driving on a highway and it started to rain so Terry pull over because Terry couldn’t see. A mysterious man came in and hop in the car with Terry. The mysterious man named Waylon Jackson. Waylon look to be 45 years old. Waylon has a bald head with rounded shoulders, strong arms, a slight gut, and has a short cut beard. Terry Anderson’s story is told in a third person point of view.
In 1993, a boy is left alone by his parents named Terry Anders.Terry builds a car and left Cleveland, OH to find his uncle In Portland, Oregon. Terry meets Waylon Jackson, and its 4 days they have known each other. Terry and Waylon are having fun and talking to each other like friends. Waylon is cooking for Terry. One day Terry and Waylon was driving on the highway a big truck pull up to Terry car and one of the truckers said something and 3mins later one of the trucker threw a bottle at the car. Waylon help Terry pull over for a moment. Then Waylon started to drive because Terry got hit by the glass from the windshield. Waylon saw the trucker’s truck at a gas station. So Waylon stop there and went in the store to tell the truckers to apologize and the truckers didn’t so Waylon beat them up. The climax is that Terry and Waylon feeling change and they change. Waylon and terry change by being more comfortable with each another. The resolution occurs when Waylon, Wayne, and Terry were chased by cowboys in Wyoming. Waylon and Wayne said leave terry for you don’t get in trouble, and terry left and came back with his only friends Waylon and Wayne.
I recommended this book because terry is taking care of himself until a man came alone and help him out with stuff like protection, and money to pay for things. Also this is a good novel because I value friendships.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
The Car by: GARY PAULSEN
It was 1993 in Cleveland, OH, Terry Anders is moving out of his parents house because they a banded him. His dad had a kit car that just set their in his yard, so Terry could drive to see his uncle in Oregon. When Terry was done fixing the car he took it for a test drive to see how it felt, but it was missing some parts. He fixed the car until it was just right.
Terry met Waylon and now their heading West, but their camping out until they get settled. Terry and Waylon are now traveling to see his uncle until these rednecks throw a bottle at Terry’s steering wheel. Terry was losing control over it that he ran off the road and landed in a ditch. Terry is horrified about what just happened and he got out of his kit to see if there are any damages. Waylon said “we need gas” and Terry says ‘okay where is the nearest gas station, Waylon looks it up on the map and Terry gets in the car and drove there. While Terry is getting the gas, Waylon saw the guys who throw the bottle at Terry. Waylon walks up to them and conference them he said “can you please say sorry to my friend for what you’ll did”, the guys laughed they said ‘why should we say sorry”, Waylon got mad and punched one of the guys in the face than the other guy tried to swing on Waylon, but Waylon hit him right in the face of making him fall with his friend. Waylon went back towards where Terry was, Terry was shocked of what just went on that he said ‘what just happened ‘, but Waylon asked ‘are you done with the gas and Terry said ‘ yes’.
Waylon asks Terry if they can make a quick stop and he looks at the map to see which way they should go. Waylon told him were to go and Terry drove that way. Waylon told him to go see his friend Wayne. Terry Anders story is told by 3rd person narrator.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Dear VW,
I think your book review is okay. But I actually liked the book. But, when I first started reading, I did not think that I was reading a book review about F451, but an interview with yourself. But I really like some of the examples you expressed.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Dear, SLS
I Liked your book review on F451, Because it plain and simplely tells you what is going on in the story. She puts her ideals and values in which makes the reveiw better.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
dear DP
I dont like your message your book review because you made it sound confusing. You didnt say who was the secoundary character.One sentence you wrote that stands out fThe beginning of the story made you not want to read it because it was so confusing or to me is. I think this is bad because if e person who never read the book before saw that they may not want to read the book .I personally wouldn’t recommend this book to a friend. What if your friend would like this kind of book
V.W.
Another sentence that I didnt like was
November 19th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Dear jlr, i think you did a good job in explaining and describing the book but i did not understand the second sentence in the last paragraph
November 19th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
dear, R.S.P
i enjoyed your message because i liked how you explained in the first sentence how you said that you liked the book and recommended the novel. i also liked how the first stated what is wrong and going on in montags life. One sentence you wrote stands out to me is “it firs with my goal of doing something good for the world that benifits it.” beacause i like that you have the goal of doing something good for the world.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Dear CBC,
I enjoyed reading your book review, of F451. I agree that it’s a confusing book because of the crazy unreal things. It was well written out and Good job.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Dear jlr,
I liked your book review ☺
It was exciting ☻
November 19th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
dear r.s.p
I did like your book review because you made it simple and short.So in conclusion this is a good book with a setting that is set in the future and characters that go through drama in their life, which makes the book interesting.
this stood out for me because that sentence is true i thought i wouldnt like the book but i ended up did.In the process Guy’s boss, Beatty found out about Faber, and he threatened to find him and arrest him.This stood out to me also because that is not true Beatty didnt know who it was he just knew it was a person involved with Montag.
V.W.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
dear, R.D.H
i liked your book reveiw beause you started of telling form fornt to end of the book and the exciting things that happen.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
dear ara,
your book review was pretty good but you did not state the plot at all or maybe just not very clearly. but i like how you took things from the book.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
B.S.P., I read your review and i can truthfullty say than i am very impressed with your opinions on this matter. You gave an EXCELLENT explantion of the events of the story and without a doubt, I can tell that you know what youre talking about. Good job, I enjoyed reading youre review.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
In the book Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury creates a character named Guy Montag. The plot of the story is when Mille gets mad at him for reading books because reading books is illegal. The climax of the story it is when Mille calls the alarm on him. Witch gets him caught and gets him in trouble. The resolution of it is when he gets out of the city and makes it to the book people.
The two main people in the story in my view are Montag and a professor named Faber. The reason why I think Montag is one of them is because the book is centered around him. Faber is also one because he helps Montag out a lot and gets him out of the city. Faber helps Montag out by communicating with him through a seashell. They make a plan to get out of the city before it is blown up.
The setting of the story is in Chicago in November and they are in war right now. The point of view of the story is third person view. Yes I would recommend this book to my friends because it shows the value of books. Also we needs to gain the knowledge that we need to do stuff. My vales are some of my books if I didn’t have or read them I wouldn’t know some of the stuff I know now. My ideal is to become a CSI and you definitely need books to read and write stuff in. If we don’t have books then we could not gain any or more knowledge.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Dear, R.S.P:
I agree with your message, doing something for the world that benifits it is very helpful. I think that the part when you said the society is being brainwashed by the government is really true, the cannot think for themselves, they are told what to do.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
dear, RSP
i like how you explained the book you gave alot of important details needed to fully get the plot of the book to the readers.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
dear DJS:
i read your book review and i can agree. The book is very interesting. You wrote what you had to do, and done it well. One sentence you wrote that stands out for me is “when his wife he thought loved leaves him”
November 19th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
i agree with you when you said in your book review from Fahrenheit 451 ” I value books for their information; this book shows how life would be without the privilege of reading.
” if i couldnt read i’d be really bored when theres nothing to do.. and also “Mildred stays home and watches and spends most of her time watching the parlor walls” she really didnt like montag she justed wanted his money!
November 19th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
dear ng,
your book review was very detailed and i liked it but your grammar was not very good. and in your reccommendation of the book you didn’t connect it with your ideals or values.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Dear, ARA
I think that your book reveiw was pretty good except for that it did not show any sign of your ideals and values
November 19th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Dear JLR,
I like your blog it is word very nice and you explain everything about the caracters, but i think you should have told more about the plot,and the settings.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
dear,kdn
i read your book report and i liked how you explained guy montag. i also like the information you used to tell people that you would not recommend this book
November 19th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Dear BSP
I really like yours. its soooooo detailed! You tell nearly the whole entire story. I’d give it a A+! You made the plot then mixed in the setting, characters, etc.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
dear rdh:
i agree with your book review beaceues faber is the most important secondray chactcer.He helps montag understand whats in the books.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
NG., I read your review and i can truthfullty say than i am very impressed with your opinions on this matter. You gave an EXCELLENT explantion of the events of the story and without a doubt, I can tell that you know what youre talking about. Good job, I enjoyed reading youre review.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
dear NG i disagreee with you. Idisa gree with you because this books is a grat book people can get into. maby you should try reading it again.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
dear NG, i like how you put the way the characters are related. also the reason why you wouldnt recommend teh book you called it a dry hard to understand book.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
dear ng
i agree with you its very nicely worded good explantion of the book and characters but you forgot to remove the questions at bottom
November 19th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Dear DMC
Your report is good, but would you recomend the book to others?
November 19th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
dear csh
i like your paragraphs because they give nice details. it is a good thing because the reader can understand what you read.
November 19th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
dear jum
i like your paragraphs but i don’t understand what you read.
November 19th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
jum
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November 19th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
In The Car by Gary Paulsen, the story starts out with a boy named Terry Anders. Terry is 14 years old living in Cleveland, Ohio in 1993 with two parents that fight a lot. Terry’s life gets brighter when his parents call and tell him that’s they’re never coming home. Terry loves to build things so he decides to go out into his garage and puts together a car called a Blakely Bearcat. Once Terry is finished putting the car together, he starts the car and drives around the streets to test it out. He drives it back into his garage, and decides to drive to Oregon to live with his uncle.
The climax of this story begins when Terry and Waylon run into a bunch of rednecks on the highway, which almost killed them by throwing a bottle at the windshield. Once Terry and Waylon recovered from the near death experience Waylon asks Terry if he can drive. As they were driving Waylon and Terry see the rednecks that almost killed them at a gas station. Waylon stopped the car at the gas station. While Terry was filling up the car with gas Waylon goes into the gas station and talks to the rednecks to make them say sorry for what they did. One of them tried to hit Waylon, so Waylon took the rednecks down. Once that was finished Waylon and Terry drive to see an old friend of Waylon’s named Wayne.
The resolution of this story is when the group drives back on the highway south down into a small Wyoming town called Buffalo. When they are at a motel parking lot they run into some trouble so Terry and Waylon get into The Cat while Wayne gets on Baby. When the group stopped they hear sirens so Terry gets into The Cat and drives off. When the police are done talking to Wayne and Waylon, Terry goes back at pick them up.
Terry is a 14 year old boy living in Cleveland, Ohio in 1993. Terry’s parents don’t care for him like most parents are suppose to but he gets used to it. Once Terry’s parents say they are never coming home Terry goes into his garage and builds a car. Another important character is Waylon because he is like a father to Terry and Is with Terry since his trip starts. Waylon introduces Terry to his friend Wayne that make Terry’s car better. Terry Anders’ story is told by 3rd person narrator.
I recommend this book to other readers because it has a lot of power to show children that anything is possible. For example one of Terry’s goals is to be a engineer I can relate to that because I want to be a air force and if I know Terry can maybe reach his goals so I might be able to reach mine. So these are my reasons why I recommend this novel.
November 19th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Terry is a young boy who is mechanically inclined he knows how to work on motors. He was not a good student in school. He is also independent because his mom and dad left him alone . On the road, he stops under a tree to put plastic over top of the car because it was raining. Then a man named Waylon while Terry fell asleep. Waylon is a 45 year old man. That is a hippy. He is strong looking with a beer belly.
Terry is a young 14 year old male. He is a teen that does not get paid any attention. His mom and dad left him alone all by his self because they didn’t get along with each other. Terry likes to work on motors. So Terry build’s a car. He build’s this car because he wants to take a trip to his uncle’s house in Oregon. It is 1993 Terry and Waylon are heading west. They get off of highway onto a back road. When two guy’s in a big black ford pickup truck. The guys were drunk. They threw a beer can at the cat and hit it. Terry swerved off of the road and crashed. They get back on the road. Then they see the guys at the gas station. Then Waylon walks in.
November 19th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
The book, The Car by Gary Paulsen is about a young boy named Terry, who is 14 years old. He is abandoned by his parents so Terry decides to drive illegally across country looking for his uncle. Meanwhile, he comes in contact with two Vietnam Veterans. This takes them on a strange journey of “trucking.” I don’t recommend this book because I don’t agree on the way Terry was treated and it goes against my values.
In this story the characters I find most important are Terry and Waylon. Terry was a 14 year old teenage boy who was alone because his parents left him. I define Terry as a very lonely person. Terry then found a Veteran that fought in Vietnam. His name was Waylon. He was a 45 year old man who was very caring. For example, in chapter 19, Waylon won $18,000 from playing cards. But instead of being greedy and keeping it for himself, he divides it between him, Terry, and Wayne.
This book is about a teenage boy named Terry who was abandoned by his parents. Then he meets a guy who fought in the Vietnam war and his name was Waylon. Waylon and Terry went on a pandemonium road trip. They then faced a big problem at a stop, there was a drunk guy and another guy with him who was smoking. The two guys then threw beer bottles at Waylon and Terry. Waylon then beat them up and it changed his life, he felt awful. Waylon then went to go see Wayne who lived in Omaha, Nebraska so he could get his life straight.
I would not recommend this book to a friend because I didn’t agree with the way the story was ended. They ended the story with the “teammates” continuing to drive on the highway. Gary Paulsen made it seem like he was going to make another book to go along with this, but he didn’t. I also didn’t agree with the way Terry was treated by his parents. My family and I are very close, and I don’t like how his parents just left him. That’s just flat out wrong! These are the reasons I did not like this book, The Car.
November 19th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
The Car by Gary Paulsen is about 14-year old Terry Anders from Cleveland. The story is written in third-person point of view. Terry’s parent leave him one day while they were fighting and they don’t come back. After this, he decides to build an old car that has been sitting in his garage. He remembers that he has an uncle in Oregon so he decides to head there. While on the road he runs into Waylon, an old, Shakespeare quoting Vietnam War veteran. When they were driving some rednecks threw a bottle at them. They later run into them at a gas station so Waylon tries to convince them to apologize but they try to fight him so he beats them. Waylon doesn’t feel good about what he did so he tells Terry to go to his Wayne, who lives outside of Omaha and paints motorcycle gas tanks. After talking for a while they decide to go trucking, which is traveling the country. They visit a man named Samuel who is over a hundred years old and knows everything about the land but cannot tell it without a cup of coffee with six scoops of sugar in it. They take terry to a place called Deadwood, a secret cabin where bikers go to so they can play cards. When they go to see cowboys they get into a fight. Wayne and Waylon go to fight a big group of cowboys after they beat up the cowboy that was messing with them. But before the fight can end the cops start to come so Terry leaves but comes back after a few hours. I do not recommend this book to a friend because not much happens until the very end. I personally didn’t like it because it’s a slow book. I also didn’t like it because it’s boring. I also don’t think that kids should hang out with 50-year old men.
November 19th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Fahrenheit 451 is an o.k. book, mostly because it is very confusing. Sometimes you have to reread paragraphs to fully understand them. The storyline of the book is o.k. The two most important characters in this book are Guy Montag, and Clarisse.
The setting takes place in the U.S. It is November. It is also during a war which makes it even worse. The book is speaking in third person. The next paragraph is going to be about the main characters.
Guy is the main character that is confused about whether he should stop reading books or continue. Clarisse is very important because she is the one who started convincing Guy to read books. In conclusion, I think that Fahrenheit 451 is an o.k. but somewhat cool book.
November 19th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
I agree with AJ because all of what you said was true. It also had good information in the review.
November 19th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
I agree with RSP because I also think this is a good book.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Dear D.A,
I agree with you because the information that you had was very persuasive.I thougt the way that you put the review together was very well thought out and good.If i had never read the book i would have been persuaded to read it.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Dear N.G
I strongly agree that the novel Fahrenheit 451 is third person narrator. I also beleive that the setting did take place around November and around Chicago in the near future. The reason why believe it takes place in the future is because of the advanced technology used and a example would be the mechanical hound.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Dear J.D,
I agree with you because the information that you had was very persuasive.I thougt the way that you put the review together was very well thought out and good.If i had never read the book i would have been persuaded to read it.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:57 am
Dear B.B.G
I also agree that the novel shows the epic struggle of the main character Guy Montag against his society. I beleive that Clarrise is a big impact on the story also because she is the only reason why Montag starts to change his ways and think twice on his society, values and ideals.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:35 am
I recommend, The Car by Gary Paulsen to be read and/or acknowledged. This book consists of cars, money, hippies, war, and many other things you may like. The book is about a 14 year old boy named Terry Anders who is met by a Vietnam veteran named Waylon Jackson and they go for the ride of a life time. This novel, The Car by Gary Paulsen, I give 4 stars out of 5. I value that I read this novel because I learned new slang, new thoughts of life, and how to do my best.
Terry Anders is a 14 year old boy from Cleveland, Ohio. Terry’s story is told by a 3rd person narrator. One day, Terry’s parents had got really upset and left. When Terry’s parents left, Terry started working on a kit car that Terry’s father had got from a friend. The kit car was a Blakely Bearcat which Terry named “The Cat.” Terry later figures out that Terry’s parents had not paid their bills. Terry left his house in, what he named, “The Cat” and took off to Portland, Oregon to go with his uncle that he never met before. On the way, Terry picks up a man named Waylon Jackson, a former war veteran in Vietnam. Waylon and Terry ride for adventures around the world such as Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. The year is 1993 and anything can happen.
While Terry and Waylon were driving one afternoon, Terry and Waylon came across of a couple beer swelling redneck truck drivers. Waylon and Terry thought they were going to be okay, boy were they in for a surprise. Terry and Waylon were trying to get away when the redneck truck drivers throw a beer bottle at “The Cat” and their actions change. Later on, the conflict is resolved by Waylon later seeing the rednecks and tries to get them to apologize. The rednecks refused. Waylon explodes and ends up beating up the rednecks. Terry didn’t even see it happened so quick.
November 20th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
THE CAR
Terry is a 14 year old kid whose parents have a banded him home alone. Terry is independent and mature. Terry doesn’t have and education because he doesn’t go to school his parents didn’t pay attention to him because they’re always arguing. Terry is a smart kid because he built a kit-car that his dad had in the garage and he’s going to visit his uncle in Oregon without anybody given him directions. Waylon is a homeless man and doesn’t have any family. Waylon is a mature adult that earns money by playing. Waylon is a violent person; he has the experience because he was in the Vietnam War.
The story has multiple settings the story first starts in Terry’s home in Cleveland, OH. The setting changes from his home to a road trip to visit his uncle in Oregon. Terry meets a guy name Waylon who needs a ride. Terry and Waylon stop in gas stations, truck stops, and to Waylon’s friend’s house. They go to South Dakota and Wyoming. The year of the story is in 1993. Terry Andrews’s story is told by a 3rd person narrator.
Terry meets a man name Waylon in the road when he’s trying to get away from the rain. Waylon asks Terry for a ride but Terry is terrified because he doesn’t know Waylon and he thinks Waylon is a serial killer. Terry is trying to act mature so Waylon would think he’s 19 when he’s 14 yrs old. Terry and Waylon drive and some rednecks throw a bottle at the car and makes them crash. Terry takes Waylon to his friend’s house and one of Waylon’s friends to help fix the kit-car so it would go faster. Terry never gets to visit his uncle. Waylon and Wayne got fighting with some cowboys. Then they heard sirens and told terry to leave. Terry left but he came back because it was his turn to choose where they were going next.
I recommend this book to readers. I recommend this book because the book could relate to the readers. The book can help the readers become better at reading. It will also help them understand how other kids become independent. That would be my reason why I recommend readers to read.
November 20th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
dear BBD,
I like your book review because it is very detail-oriented and very easy to understand. A person who has not read this book could get it and your review might even be able to persuade somebody to read it. nice job.
November 20th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
dear dmb
i like your book review because yours is well thought out and is very detailed.
November 20th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
RDH
i agree with your book review it was good and i like it.it was short but you told about all the important details that you needed form
the book.
November 20th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
dear bsp,
i like your book review. it is very detailed and if i hadnt already read the book then i would read it. your book review is very persuasive.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Dear S.L.S,
I like your review because it is straight and to the point. you still gave enough detail to make a person understand, but you did not give too much information. you gave just enough information to make a person want to read it. nice job.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
dear bsp,
i like your book review because it is very detailed and persuasuive. if i hadnt already read the book then i would read it.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
kdn
you are right about this book have a lot details in it and you can’t hardly understand it very well.if you are a great reader you would like to read this book beacuse it make you think about what you reading. nice book review i like it.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
The Car is a book written in third person by Gary Paulsen. There are two very important characters in this book. The main characters name is Terry Anders. He is fourteen years old, and his parents leave him all alone. Terry remembers that there is a kit car in the garage, so he decides to build it and take a trip. The other very important character in this book is Waylon Jackson. He is forty five year old war veteran, who is a great fighter. While taking the trip, Waylon is teaching Terry about America, and helping to pay along the way
The story takes place in the year 1993. They travel to many places in this book including South Dakota, Ohio, and Wyoming. The book starts with Terry’s parents leaving him all alone, with nothing at all. The climax in this book is when the red necks throws the bottle at the Cat and almost hits Terry. When Waylon gives them the choice to apologize, they turn the offer down. So they have to face the consequences. The book ends with Terry choosing Waylon and Wayne over his family.
I would recommend the novel The Car because I like how Terry values his friendship with Wayne and Waylon. I also value Terry’s determination from when he built the car. One other reason that I liked this book is because I have I similar goal as Terry does. I would like to build my own car, and then take a trip across the country.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
A blog about the novel “The Car” written by Gary Paulsen, a third person point of view book that I would highly recommend. I would recommend it because of Waylon because he’s a man who reminds me of my grandfather, A war veteran that is extremely smart. The book has funny parts and has a couple of action scenes and I enjoyed it a lot.
The novels main characters are Terry, and Waylon. Terry is a 14 year old kid with a messed up life. He’s a little childish but despite driving without parents he’s doing fine. The second character is Waylon, an old but extremely intelligent Vietnam veteran. Waylon is a hippie homeless traveler. He seems peaceful for most of the story but his mood changes when he beats up a group of rednecks. Waylon is important to the story because he has important information for terry.
The setting of this story was Cleveland, Ohio 1993, where terry lives. Another place was Deadwood, South Dakota and, Nebraska, where they picked up Waylon’s friend Wayne. These are some of the road stops but they spend most time on road.
The book is about a boy who has a pretty bad life with his parents, non-stop fighting and completely ignoring him. His life is even worse when his parents leave him. This causes a lot of changes to happen. The best point of the book is about halfway into it. Terry and his friend are driving west but a group of drunken rednecks drive by them. They try to spit on them but miss so they decide to throw a bottle at them causing terry to fall into a ditch. Waylon tracks them down and beats them up in a gas station.
The ending of the story was probably the worst part of the story. The story is a cliffhanger, a problem this author has with all of his books, and he leaves you hanging. The end they are in a call driving and it just ends.
November 24th, 2009 at 8:57 am
dear A.P.S,
i agree with what you said its educational
November 24th, 2009 at 8:59 am
dear K.A.P,
i think that your response was very observant and you understood what you read.