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What happens to Montag next? It doesn't really give any idea what Montag's plan of action is, it merely says he is heading towards the city.
2. Visit a couple other blogs from classmates and try to answer someone else’s question(s) and/or comment on their blog.
Did ya one better. Commented on Matt's Blog, as well as Mike C.'s
3. Answer one of the following sets of questions.
A. What does Granger mean when he says, quoting his grandfather, “Shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass”? Why is this quote important? How does it fit into the novel, what is Bradbury trying to say with this?
Granger's grandfather said to ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, for if there is no such animal. And if there ever was, it would be related to the great sloth. What he is trying to get at is that nothing is certain, nothing is absolute, and any ideas otherwise is self-delusion. This fits into the novel because it reflects the way people live. They are over-egotistical and believe nothing will ever happen to them, so they ignore the war being fought just overhead. They are deluded and blind to the world, so they sit fat and happy in their parlors while the rest of the world hates them. Then, at last, the tree is shaken by an atomic bomb, and all the lazy sloths fall from the tree and to their death in the most ironic of ways.
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I think that an open-ended book is sometimes the best. At times it is better to have no ending so that we may let our minds wander. In addition, this can also produce mayhem and hell for our poor little brains, so it is a bit demeaning of the author to do this to us, but then again, what is society but demeaning one person after another? Anyway, I do agree that it is strange that it does not give Guy's next plans. Then again, let your imagination wander. It is healthy.
hey wats up JJ ballin! thnx fo tha comment and answerin my question. the reason u dont kno what happens next to Guy is because the author is trying to leave it at a suspense. Since this book was basically a moral book, I guess the author was trying to say "you finish the story" or "what would you do". this wasnt a real book, like a story book. This book was to teach people about morals and stuff, you know? so it wont have an ending. I believe the book was...as you totally hip rad kids say..."boody".
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