CHARACTERS:

Detail everything you know about them (physical description, personality, etc.):

Madam Schachter: a much older women. pleasant, but not the best at getting messages acrossed

Elie: begins getting very hungry and dirt. hasn't showered in some time. begining to lose his faith.

SETTING:

Detail the time and place the story is presently at:

i think its still 1944. the jewish community was brought to a ghetto, and then moved into a train on their way to the camps.

Where were the prisoners brought?

aushwitz

How were they transported?

train

IN-TEXT QUESTIONS:

Infer the answer from the text (Minimum 1-2 sentences):

Describe the treatment of Madam Shachter. Why is she treated this way? the jewish poeple were being treated and spoken to as dogs. they began acting this way when none of them were able to withstand the Madams shrieks of flame. they could have been losing it, themselves, and were utting the anger and blame into shachter, because of her racket.

LITERARY ELEMENTS:

SIMILIES AND METAPHORS: THREE EXAMPLES INCLUDING THE FIRE MADAM SCHACHTER SEES AND WHAT IT MIGHT REPRESENT.

the fire madam shachter sees is the furnace that the jews are being cremated in.

SHORT ANSWER QUESTION

Minimum 4-5 Sentences

Why is Madame Shachter screaming? What is she screaming about? What could she be predicting?

Detail everything you know about them (physical description, personality, etc.):

Moishe the Beadle: he has a very religious jew who is poor and lives in sighet

Elie: a young jew boy who is very into his faith, lives with family in sighet

Elie’s Father: older man, has high hopes for his son.

SETTING:

Detail the time and place the story begins:

When does the story begin? 1941

What year is it at the end of Chapter One? 1944

Where does Elie live? sighet, transylvania 

IN-TEXT QUESTIONS:

Infer the answer from the text (Minimum 1-2 sentences):

Describe where Moishe the Beadle is taken and what happens to him. hes taken to a concentration camp and whitenesses the death and torture of jews

Describe the treatment Moishe the Beadle is given when he returns. people think hes insane and no one believes him

Describe the condition of the synagogue when the Hungarian police brings the Jewish Community there.  dirty and desecrated

LITERARY ELEMENTS:

ALLUSIONS:

The Destruction of the Temple (pg. 1):  a synagogue 

The Cabbala (pg. 4): jewish literature

The Week of Passover (pg. 8): a jewish tradition of fasting  

SIMILIES AND METAPHORS: GIVE FOUR EXAMPLES

a wind of calmness and reassurance blew through their houses (4)

the students liveed burried in their books (4)

there was no longer any joy in his eyes (4)

tears, like drops of wax, flowed from his eyes (5)

IRONY:

"was he going to wipe out a whole people?..." (6)

The celebrating of Passover in their current situation (pg. 8): 

it was nice and sunny, but german troops quickly came in and arrested jews. 

SHORT ANSWER QUESTION

Minimum 4-5 Sentences

Why don’t the Jews listen to the warnings of the danger to come? What explains their ignorant optimism?

the jewish people, like any other spiritual religion, are a people of faith. they believe that the chances of them being harmed in this war is very slim and let that get the best of them. when moshe returns from the camps with a warning of whats to come, no one believes him partly because of the festivities that are abroad, but also that they couldn't imagine that such inhumane people could possibly exist at that time and age.

in Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451, he warns us of whats to come if we let our attention become consumed by meaningless distractions. plotless 5 minute TV programs are all that can hold the attention of this non-contributing society. The government is giving the people exactly what they want, an escape from reality to keep them happy, but what happens when that goes too far?

Mildred, the protagonist, Montag's, nugatory shell of a wife is the perfect example. she's always absorbed in her TV walls, that she thinks the lively figures on the screen are her actual family. she seems unable to feel the slightest bit of passion, as she'd much rather be either passed out in bed with earbuds silencing the outside world or consuming a plethora of the sleeping pills she somehow obtains.
sounds like a great way to live, does it not?

"I just want to be happy", seems to be the goal of most american citizens and the government does what it can to create a healthy environment, but taking everything out of life is not the answer. Mildred and most of this society have mistaken happiness for the lack of knowledge, and by doing this she is unable to really live. How can you experience happiness without the experience of pain? There is one scene where Montag, enraged by Mildred and her friends ignorance, that he pulls out a book of poems in hopes of shedding the light of what they are missing. Instead of awing at the thoughts of others, they break down in tears and feel that Montag is some sort of satanist condemning them to hell, but they couldn't even put it into words since their vocabulary is so filtered.

"Millie? does the White Clown love you? does- ... does your 'family' love you, love you very much, love you with all their heart and soul?"
"now, why would you ask a silly question like that?"
page 77, Montag begins asking Mildred the questions that count. the ones that should really make you think, but she's so hallow that they don't even faze her; and her moment of confusion passes. she's content with how her life is, simply because its all she's ever experienced. she's nothing more than a zombie, just going through the motions.
"He felt he wanted to cry, but nothing would happen to his eyes or mouth".

Our lives on this planet may be the longest thing any of us will ever experience, but they're so short and insignificant that its completely useless to waste your time by letting your inner being, your soul, the one thing that differentiated Hitler from Gandhi, Saddam Hussain from Socrates, become engulfed by even more insignificance. Our society is reading less and less, our society is losing culture, our society is fading away and losing what made it as great as it was once deemed. we're sacrificing our freedom for cheap kicks and false inner peace and Ray Bradbury saw this back in the 1953 and its just becoming more and more apparent. The book was even banned at one point, not too long after its release, which further show how closely related our society is to theirs. i mean, how can you ban knowledge? I'm going to end this with another warning, written by some bodacious dudes in 1973, a few years before the media was taken over by Twerking and heartless jingles.

                                                   long you life; and high you fly
                                              smiles you'll give; and tears you'll cry
                                                   all you touch and all you see
                                                     is all your life; will ever be 






 

In Ray Bradbury’s dystopian Novel, Fahrenheit 451, we are given a warning of what’s to come if we trade thought engaging books and teachings for five minute TV shows without the slightest plot and other meaningless distractions. The character, Mildred, is the lead character, Montag’s, nugatory shell of a wife who lets technology completely control her life and doesn’t take the time to think about anything at all. She’s unable to feel passion due to the plethora of sleeping pills the government supplies everyone and love is a lost concept to her and she isn’t even aware of it. Looking at today, technology is controlling our lives and we are all beginning to read less and less in scientific studies. We are already losing culture, and actual meaning in leisure like music and TV is becoming more and more vacant. We’re walking on a slippery slope, and if we aren’t careful we could all slip and fall into that absent-mindedness Ray Bradbury portrays in Mildred.

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.

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.

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.