Mr. Miller: About your comment for my first posting- Montag does come across to be too busy to think of everything in such detail like Clarisse does. He seems to just pass through life without stopping to think about anything in front of him. This is shown when Montag reacts to what Clarisse told him about the dew on the ground in the morning. He had to stop and think about if he knew about it or not, and then he felt irritable after thinking about it. This is the same thing that happened when Clarisse asked him if he was happy. That questioned kept nagging him until he could come to a realization. When I went back to the part where Montag's wife was talking, I realized a significant difference between Montag's wife, Mildred, and Clarisse. This is it: When Mildred was reading her play script at home she glanced up and looked at the TV for a few minutes and suddenly said to Montag, "Hey...The Man's thinking!" (pg 19). She said this in a way which expressed shock or confusion. It was said in a way where the reader should assume that no one in that certain time thinks anymore. This is totally opposite to Clarisse because thinking is mostly all that she does. She questions things around her in such detail that it makes Montag question his happiness and his own feelings.
Ok, so moving on to our group discussions today....
I feel that our group discussions were very productive, because everyone contributed their on ideas so everyone would be able to gain a better understanding of the book. Some of the ideas that were shared didn't even cross my mind. For example, Danielle mentioned that she thinks Clarisse's uncle is an older man, because he talks about things that would require much experience to understand. This is probably true, but in my point of view, I pictured her uncle to be younger, because I came up with the idea that Clarisse and her family came back to the future, after living and dying in the past. (Might be a little far-fetched, but just coming up with an idea). I came up with this idea, because it seems like everyone in Montag's world, except for Clarisse and her family, have been hypnotized by the elements of the futuristic world. We all questioned why the incident with Montag's wife came up all of a sudden, because throughout the beginning of the book the subject focused on was Clarisse and Montag. Montag never once, before the incident, mentioned his wife. Our group thinks that this incident is going to later tie into some of the key ideas of the book. Some other things that we wondered about were...
-Why didn't Montag tell his wife about Clarisse?
-Why, if Clarisse's family always has discussions at night, does Montag just find out that Clarisse is his neighbor?
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In your post you say " I came up with this idea, because it seems like everyone in Montag's world, except for Clarisse and her family, have been hypnotized by the elements of the futuristic world." This seemed very interesting and stood out to me. I agree with the idea of them being "hypnotized." I missed tis disscussion and your post outlines the ideas that were talked about well. SOme of the ideas that you posted I haven't thought about, but now I am thinking about these ideas.
Lindsay
I completely agree with what you said in this blog. You have pointed out many great ideas. I love how you said "Danielle mentioned that she thinks Clarisse's uncle is an older man, because he talks about things that would require much experience to understand. This is probably true, but in my point of view, I pictured her uncle to be younger" this is great but what I ment when I said older was not that hes an old, wrinkly man but that he was a respected, wiseman. Also I agree with you on the fact that maybe there from the past were people actually thought about things, they had there own minds.
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