Pg 119He switchedthe safety catch on the flame thrower. Beatty glanced instantly at Montag's fingers and his eyes widened the faintest bit... Beatty grinned his most charming grin... "We never burned right..." "Hand it over, Guy," said Beatty with a fixed smile. And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering mannikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one contiunous pulse of liquid fire on him.
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Beatty wanted to die. In the middle of the crying Montag knew it for the truth. Beatty had wanted to die. He had just stood there, joking, needling, thought Montag, and the thought was enough to stifle his sobing and let him pause for air. How strange, strange, to want to die so much that you let a man walk around armed and then instead of shutting up and staying alive, you go on yelling at people and making fun of them until you get them mad and then...
Guy Montag was living a happy life until a girl named Clarisse came over and shook up his world. After his first conversation with Clarisse, Montag's mind was like a seesaw, teetering up and down, trying to balance it self out. He finally made the decision as to which side he wants up and which side down when he shot Beatty with the flame thrower.
Montag is a curious guy, and he was out in search for the truth; in search for true happiness. Montag believed he lived a very happy life until Clarisse asked him, "Are you happy?" Guy thought, "Of course I am," but after those words stumbled out and wondered if they should go back into his mouth or not. Clarisse gave him a wanting to do something illegal- Guy wanted to read books. Beatty encouraged Guy to keep up his work of keeping people happy by giving them nothing to worry about. However, is that really true happiness? Is it possible to have a perfect world and for everyone to always be happy? Beatty warned him that books brought unhappiness to people and arguments, fights, murder, and wars, that the way they live now is good, and a fireman's job is to keep it that way. Beatty continued to get on Montag's nerves. He continuously bothered him, and that is when one side of Guy's seesaw dropped, never to rise again. It was done with teetering back and forth. He switched off the safety switch on the flame thrower and murdered Beatty. He chose to fight for the books, and Beatty was right. Books brought murder- something Guy could not rewind. Montag, how ever much regret he felt, made the decision to search for true happiness, even if it meant other things such as sadness, regret, worry, and depression came along with it. This truely is a dystopian novel.
2 comments:
I like how you wrote so many sensible posts, and I find it sad to have only enough time to comment on one, but I'll write what I think.
You talked about a seesaw, and I like the idea. In fact, I think life is a seesaw. A seesaw that's meant to be balanced.
You can't have only one and not the other.
Guy decided to search for knowledge and happiness. Of course, despair, sadness, loss and all sorts of bad things would also come along. Still, you can't be happy without knowing sadness.
People never know what being lonely is until they know the warmth of other people.
People never know the happiness of having food unless they know what starving is like.
People can't hate others without knowing how to love others.
Happiness and sadness come together; they're a set. Even if depression come his way, Guy will have to accept it, and he will know happiness.
Sure, the books brought so much bad things, and people noticed those bad things. Humanity notes down all the bad things of life on a white peice of paper with a big black pen. It's so noticeable and so obvious that books and knowledge brought unhappiness.
However, people must look at that white paper more closely. The good things are all written in the lightest gray pencil, and very subtle. Knowledge has its good side, it's just that people can't see them very clearly.
You had interesting thoughts on this post. I also thought that the climax was when Montag burned Beatty. I have read most of the people's posts on Fahrenheit 451's climax and I think all of them have said that this part was the climax. You have also mentioned that this was the point of no return, where Montag could not rewind what he had done. Montag wanted to carry on with what he thought was the right thing to do-to read books and make his world better. It's funny how you have said that Montag was living a happy life until Clarisse came because other people have said that he found happiness as he met her. Wonderful job on your post anyways!:)
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