This is an interesting quote that Michelle used in her explanation of Montag's society being brainwashed......
"School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually gradually neglected, finally almost ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pressure lies all about work." -Beatty (55).
This quote brought to mind Clarisse McClellan, because thinking back in the beginning of the story, the scary part was that she was the only person before Montag who questioned what is happening around them. The memories of life were always on her mind and she didn't forget what her uncle told her about the past. She keeps real-life situations in mind and uses them to analyze the situation of the society right now. What I want to know is-how did the whole world become unaware of the changing elements within their communities? Wouldn't someone have questioned these changes? Fortunately, Montag remembers Faber and both of them have a plan to make sense of their lives and everything that is happening around them. Faber explains the three reasons of how to go about understanding the significance of what you read. All of the things that he says go against the quote stated above. As Faber said, books have quality. And that quality can only be discovered if we have the leisure to digest it. With both of these, is when we can carry out actions based on what have we learned from these books.
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Lindsay: Nice job with this post. You say "What I want to know is-how did the whole world become unaware of the changing elements within their communities?"
What if it happened gradual and people didn't realize it? In the novel, they talk about how movies and books were gradually edited to remove objectionable content little by little until there was nothing left. How do we see things like that happening in our world today?
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