Fahrenheit Analysis Post

As Mrs. Phelps slammed the door of Mildred's house, she stalked off  towards her own home.
Mrs. Bowles, "I can't believe he would want to hurt someone like that, this fireman is evil." Mrs. Bowles, incredibly angry, left immediately.
Mrs. Phelps, with wet tears still on her face, thought back to the poem. It seemed to be sad, and miserable. As she got back to her house, Mrs. Phelps rushed to her phone, and called the firemen. A gruff voice picked up, and she stated "Fireman Montag has possession of a multitude of books, and should be arrested immediately."
She sat down to her couch, and thought back to her husband. Pete definitely was coming back soon, they always end war very quickly. Drifting, her thoughts touched on Mrs. Bowles' children, what a nuisance, and what a pain to deal with.
As she began watching the wall screen, her mind wasn't on the continuous fast pace shows. Mrs. Phelps could only think of the poem, [The world] To lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light... Mrs. Phelps thought in horror, could that be our world, could it really be how we function. Was I the ignorant one in that room? What are we being ignorant about? As these questions churned around her head, she only could sit in fear of her own society.
Suddenly, her phone started ringing, an automatic voice call. Wow, what could this be? As she picked up, she struggled to remain aware of her position and the society as a monotone voice told her husband had died in the war.

Fahrenheit 451 analysis

Each character of Fahrenheit 451 seems to have a special meaning about the intentions of the author, Ray Bradbury.

Mildred- Bradbury describes Montag's encounter's with her as very far off and awkward. Mildred is portrayed as a normal character of this society, with problems with memory, insatiable greed, and totally half-empty in this world. "And suddenly she was so strange he couldn't believe he knew her at all." (pg. 39) 

Clarisse - She is a core character in relecting on this society along with Montag, and she provokes his thought. Bradbury describes her as a mirror, thought-provoking all over the society. Even as she leaves the book, she leaves an impact on Montag that we can find out how it affects him.

At the end of part 2: The sieve and the sand, the book almost reaches a climactic point. The earpiece and technology that Faber uses essentially takes Montag over and an argument between Faber and Beatty begins. I enjoyed how the author uses Beatty and his knowledge of Literature to strike down Literature.

Independent Reading Novel variety

Recently, I finished a book called Scorpion Mountain , this is a continuation of a series by John Flanagan. These books consistently relate to historical nations, and continues to add a plot behind each book.
When I started this book, I was immediately struck by the connection between the first series, and recurring characters are now playing in to the plot.
One of the consistently magnificent parts of the book is Hal's genius. He demonstrates knowledge years ahead of his time. His consistent "genius" creates "advanced" technology and is capable of changing many things. Other times, they "turn out terribly wrong" although readers still expect great things out of him.
This book isn't a very interesting book, but is a normal book to continue the series. It didn't feature many plot changing ideas or interesting parts.

First Blog Post of the Semester

Recently over winter break I started to read The Count of Monte Cristo. Since the beginning of the book, I have noticed many interesting things.
First of all, what strikes me immediately is the character change from Dante's experience in prison. He changes from his happy carefree nature with great joys in his life to a character who experienced so much pain in life that he wants to take revenge on others and cannot find happiness.
Another part the author made as a central part of the plot is the human society's awards and punishment. The ones who had not committed crimes such as Monsieur Morrel and to a lesser extent Caderousse  are the ones who live in poverty. Those who had committed treacherous crimes however escaped to achieve wealth. Edmond Dantes alias the Count of Monte Cristo comes in order to punish and have retribution.
Alexander Dumas writes, "'Father!' cried the girl out of breath and overcome with joy. 'You are saved! You are saved!' She threw herself into his arms, at the same times holding out to him a red silk purse... Morrel started at sight of the purse, for he had a faint recollection that it had once belonged to him. He took it in his hand. At one end it held the receipted bill for 287500 francs, at the other diamond as big as a nut..." (Dumas 153)
This is another example of Dantes carrying out Justice for the fair. The purse is what Morrel had put money in to give to Dante's father to help him survive. This represents the simple form of repayment in the form of a good deed in return while Dantes also has bad deeds in retribution.

Final blog post of this Semester

First of all, I would like to comment on a book that I recently started called 1984 by George Orwell. Immediately, I was fascinated by the immediate representation of the totalitarian government by Stalin. Within the first couple of pages you can read "On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran." (Orwell 2)
Clearly established in the scene is the fact that each part of the government has strict privacy intrusion by the state, also in the case of Winston. The part that strikes me on the quote is the caption, and a symbol for the total government observation of each and every citizen.
This year, I really enjoyed blogging about all the books we read and observe other people's new books and be able to use this to find new books that suit each person. I really enjoyed this semester with these blog posts and look forward to them again!

Blog post #4

I recently read the book Slaves of Socorro. I was surprised when the book introduced Hal's old rival from the brotherhood trials. Tursgud from the shark clan became a traitor of the Skandians. Hal gets assigned to patrol duty along the Araluen coast under the treaty. They have certain duties to protect the coast from raiders.
Soon, they come across Gilan, and the fact that there were 12 Araluen slaves that had been kidnapped.
I don't get why the author created such ludicrous plans in the plot. There clearly was a lot of stupidity in the plan that was next to impossible to achieve. The desperate gambles resulted in surprising success. I couldn't believe that all of that happened.
I was interested in how the author constructed the characteristics in characters of the story
" 'I plan to be subtle,' he [Thorn] said. 
'Once we go through that door, I'll bash anything that moves. And if they don't move, Stig will bash them.'
'You have a strange concept of subtle,' Gilan said."

This is clearly showing Thorn's very upfront and brash as well as Gilan's calmer attitude. 

Slaves of Socorro is a great book that you should definitely read. 

Free reading on blog post #3

For this blog post, I read The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan.
The resolution of the main book's problem is a great way to end the series. Both Greek and Roman camps end up coming together and all of the demigods enjoy their lives. All of them have something to continue for and even Leo, found a place where he finds comfortable.
The structure of this book consists of two parts of the story. Two interdependent quests of defeating the rise of Gaea   in Greece and returning the Parthenos to the camp. These quests rotate with characters as well, with Nico and Reyna returning the Parthenos, and multiple characters in the other quest. As the story progresses, we see many of the different character's problems and all of this combines into what ends up happening in the end of this series.
This story has a general genre of greek myths being incorporated into a fantasy book. The interesting part of this is the fact that I have read many Greek myths before. The first part is an allusion to The Odyssey, which I think is really amazing.
I was interested in this passage "But if Piper's visions were right, the suitors were now back, haunting the place where they'd died" (Riordan 7). This is a reference to the palace of Odysseus in Ithaca.  When I first read it, I was amazed at the allusion that was in the other book that I had read before. Now, I think that this is a great book to extend with.