Log Entry #1

Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451

Log Entry #1



This story is set to take place in a distant future. Where books are burned and firemen...are the ones causing fires! Through these they are control by the government and sort of brainwashed to believe books are evil. So far this story has introduced us to Guy Montag, a fireman who passionately loves his job , as told in the story,he's 'happily' married and is 'satisfied' with his life. 
We are also introduced to Clarisse McClellan, a young teenage girl who can see through Montag. She introduces herself as a young seventeen year old who is crazy. She easily changes subjects and so far has spoke about herself freely telling the story of how her uncle was arrested twice. It is also later revealed that Montag cannot stop thinking about her, comparing her to a clock.
HE had first met her on the corner when walking home, that same corner he felt someone waited to jump him or something. But what is significant so far in these pages is that, Montag, who believes he is so happy with his life, after being asked by Clarisse, starts questioning himself. He cannot stop thinking about her and her soft white features that he begins to wonder about her. Comparing to her like she is a mirror, reflecting people. He understood the power of identification she held and felt like she was a marionette while he was watching in the audience. 
When she asked about houses once being prone to fires, Montag laughed and replied with, "No, that's not true. They have been fireproof since the beginning." He had used many examples of allusions, similes and metaphors. For example, when he had described Clarisse he compared her to mirrors, clocks, marionettes, and slender. And how Montag and Clarisse were dressed. Montag in all black, a symbol of death(?), no hope, void, abyss, soullessness,(my mom) and depth. Clarisse is dressed in white, meaning pure, hope, good, life, beginnings and a godly presence of sorts. 



VOCAB-
Pedantry- excessive concern with minor details and rules.(N)
Odious- extremely unpleasant; repulsive. (ADJ)
Luxuriant- rich and profuse in growth; lush (N)
Dictum- a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source. (N)
Cacophony- a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds (ADJ)
Proclivity- a tendency to choose or do something regularly; an inclination or predisposition toward a particular thing (N)
Proboscis- 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. (N)
Stratum- a layer of a substance (N)
Mausoleum- a building, especially a large and stately one, housing a tomb or tombs (N)
Marionette- A marionette is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations. A marionette's puppeteer is called a masterminder. (N)
Phoenix- a mythical bird of great beauty fabled to live 500 or 600 years in the Arabian wilderness, to burn itself on a funeral pyre, and to rise from its ashes in the freshness of youth and live through another cycle of years: often an emblem of immortality or of reborn idealism or hope. (N)