Friday, November 21, 2014

3A. the rainforest provides an abundance of recourses we use ranging from bubblegum and coco to quinine and other medications.
3B. destruction of the rain-forests not only discards many of the recourses we indulge daily, but even more importantly, habitats that are home to thousands of different species are being whipped out without remorse.
3C. spreading awareness of what we're destroying might delay it. government action and campaigns for banning deforestation is whats needed.

 4 - If drastic changes in how we treat our environment aren't apparent in the future, then places all over the world will have to learn to go without many species of plants and animals, some of which shape the way we live.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Montag and mildred spent an afternoon reading. the mechanical hound came to the door and began to sniff, but they ignored it. montag was talking about clarisse, but mildred got mad and said she didnt want to talk about dead people. he wasnt understanding what he was reading so he decided he needed a teacher. he thought back to when he was in a park and saw an old man with a book. the mans name was Faber, which could be an allusion to fables; ahe talked a lot about poems. guy called him up and asked if there were any other copies of Shakespeare or the bible but faber thinks its a trap and hangs up. guy goes out to find him and gets caught with a book by civilians while he's riding on a bus. the people call guards, but montag gets off the buss.

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

today in this dystopian novel, Montags curiosity begins sparking into infatuation when he ponders upon what could be locked away in these treasures thats to die for; literally. During a conversation with his nugatory shell of a wife: Mildred, Montag tried to explain to her on how he's beginning to realize that these books that he has been burning are so much more than just illegal objects that defy the government, the authors spent endless amounts of time putting their hearts and minds into these works of art; and then he and his merry firemen come along and turn them to dust with a marinade of kerosine and the click of a button.

Beatty stopped by later that evening to check on Montags well being. one thing led to another until beatty saw fit to answer Montags previous question; something like: "did firemen always burn houses?". what i gathered as a whole was that books and culture used to be a huge part of life, but then it began to become dumbed down as the population grew and people actually had thoughts. books began to get super short and society banned them before they were illegal to begin with (not literally, no one read them as if they were; though). the government then cracked down on everyone to make the people happy as a whole, which as we talked with the Professor today, thats not always the best way to go about solving problems.

semi-colon - A stylistic mark that is never necessary: takes place of a comma or period.

uses: 1) to join two or more closely related sentences
2) to connect interrelated ideas or thoughts
3)a semi-colon may replace a comma to separate items of a list when additional commas may confuse the reader

Monday, November 10, 2014

in these past few pages, Montag became quite worried with the strange disappearance of Clarrise Mclinnin. during  conversation with his wife, she revealed to him that she had heard Clarrise was fatally hit with a car and her family had moved. these unfortonate series of events lays out a few large questons: is that really what happened? Did the government have anything to do with it, considering her otherworldly views on how and where they live? what are you gonna do with that big fat butt?

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Montag becomes stuck on the concept of how meaningless his marriage is. He knows little of anything about mildred, his wife. All they seem to do is occupy space the other leaves vacant. Montag stole a book referred to it as poison, as he gripped it in his hand. He began to cry when thinking about the book, and then thought of how terrible it was that he wouldn't of cried of Mildred died.  He had been trying to think of where he had met Mildred, but couldn't quite put a finger on it. when he was crying and Mildred asked him what was the matter, his rebuttal was the same question he kept failing to answer in his head, "where did we first meet?". Mildred laughed when she couldn't figure it out. she then said that it didn't matter much anyways, took a shower, and began  popping pills like they were candy and she some sort of disorder which would cause someone to eat a lot of candy. (great analogy, i know.) Romantic relationships are based on the idea of love, and each other being the key to happiness. Mildred and Montag have close to a negative effect on each other, and Montag is finally starting to realize that nothing he has with her is real. this upsets and frightens him, since he's beginning to uncover this larger picture of nothing in the world he lives in is real, its all just an abstract disarray of lies, sleeping pills, and unquestioned government power, all stuffed into one melancholy world.  

Montage was at unease when Clarisse didn’t show up to walk with him. A man was taken to an asylum simply because he had owned a library. A lady committed suicide via arson after the firemen drenched her books with kerosene. The firemen said that Benjamin franklin was the first fireman, and in real life he did start the first fire station.

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Pedantry - noun) excessive concern with minor details and rules.
Odious - adjective) extremely unpleasant, repulsive.
Luxuriant - adjective) of vegetation, rich and profuse in growth; lush.
Dictum - noun) a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source.
Cacophony - noun) a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.
Proclivity - noun) a tendency to choose or do something regularly; an inclination or predisposition toward a particular thing.
Proboscis - noun) the nose of a mammal, especially when it is long and mobile, such as the trunk of an elephant or the snout of a tapir.
Stratum - noun) a level of society made up of the same rank or position
Mausoleum 
Phoenix - noun) the Phoenix is a Bird which spawns from greek mythology. Its said to have been killed by fire and then reborn. his eyes were filled with fire as he cleansed the the world of 
marionette - noun) a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings.  

There was a mechanical hound which euthanized creatures with morphine, Guys views began to change, as he begins to ponder upon the peculiar absence of the common age. Guys last name means Monday, and his wifes last name means Sunday. 

Monday, November 3, 2014

Dictum - noun) A formal pronouncement from an authoritative source. The prime ministers dictum declared the surrender of the nation
Mausoleum - noun) housing or tombs. There was a Mausoleum behind the church that is over 100 years old.