1. Write a question. What are you confused about?
What was going on with the "Denham's" alliteration? It was a bit too abstract for me to comprehend
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3. Answer one of the following questions:
B. Faber jokingly proposes a plan of action and then starts to discuss it seriously with Montag. What is the plan of action? More importantly, why does he say it won’t work? Analyze his answer. Why won't it work?
The plan of action was to hide books in the houses of firemen, and call the alarm on them, thus destroying the entire fireman system from the inside out. Faber believes this will not work because of the following reasons:
1) He believes it is far too risky, or, as he put it, "finding the highest cliff to jump off of"
2) Society needs books. They are "To remind us what asses and fools we are," and "The things [Montag is] looking for are in the world, but the only way the average chap will see nintey-nine per cent of them is in a book."
3) They can't trust people to do the dirty work. On top of that, the only fellow proffesors he knows of that he can trust are either dead or ancient
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well, to answer your question, the whole Denhams Dentrifuce thing was I believe a metaphor for how the new age had become. The new age was Repetative first of all, and in an abstract kind of way, the Denhams thing pointed towards how the world was burning books, and instead focusing on Television and Radio. Montag repeatedly said the word "lillies" whenever there was a pause in the Denham's thing, showing that the truth and interest in books was being completely overpowered.
sorry if that confused you further, was it any help Azn Man?
A little help. It's still quite a confusing paragraph >.<
Justin,
I thank you for your long and incredibly thoughtful comment. I agree with some of what you said, but other things, I have to say that I disagree with, and that’s OK, by the way.
First, I will apologize, I shouldn’t have generalized so much, only SOME teens are like that, you have a wonderful point. I am sorry.
Second, to address your comment that even books use technology. I agree with that, but I would like to draw an incredibly biased line in the sad between a printing press and the computer (not to mention all of the things that you can now do with it).
Third, you say that the internet brought back reading, but book sales are lower than they have ever been. Small bookstores are having to CLOSE because people don’t read enough and they just can't make enough money. You say that people are reading these days, but what do they do on the computer? They aren’t all reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Most of them are on AIM, or some form of chat room.
That is a perfect connection to my fourth point. “Blogs”, in most ways, are like a diary. Very much like a diary. But do you know anyone who spends 12 hours a day writing in their diary? Anyone? No? Well, I know a few people who can spend 12 hours a day on MySpace. Slightly different. And as to AIM. True, it is instant, but so is a phone, and there are some things that you would never say on a phone that people think are fine to say on AIM. People lose the real human interaction.
I will read the thing that you said I should read (as soon as I can find the time).
I don’t mean to sound like we are coming to the apocalypse, but sometimes, that’s how I feel. People sont ask for your phone number anymore, they ask for you cell, or your screen name. I am the only one who sees something wrong with that?
Thanks again for your views!
Kit
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