Log Entry #4

Log Entry #4
Fahrenheit 451

Log Entry #4



To start this out we leave off at Clarisse's and Montag's conversation. Clarisse states that people don't talk about anything and if they do its the same stuff. Nobody says anything different from anyone else. As a week passed they give us a date: November 4th. The month of Clarisse's birthday so when they first met it would have been October. After this announcement the radio man says they are ready for war to defend...
Montag started toying with the idea of the past being different, if firemen prevented fires back then. Captain Beatty scrambles to the table and slammed his rules book down to show him that was a lie.

Established, 1790, to burn English-influenced books in the Colonies. First Fireman: Benjamin Franklin.
Rule:  1. Answer the alarm swiftly.
       2. Start the fire swiftly.
       3. Burn everything.
       4. Report back to firehouse immediately.
       5. Stand alert for other alarms.

 Then the alarm rang and the firemen went to burn the books, this is where the importance of this log comes in. The old woman whose name is E.B, Mrs. Blake, refuses to leave her books at her home. Once the men drenched everything in kerosene they tried to evacuate the old woman but she refused. Montag eventually pulled her elbow but she told him thank you but no. They had to leave her as she revealed the kitchen match she had. Everyone ran down the street as she lit herself on fire with her books.

"We shall this day light such  candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."  A man named Latimer said that to a man named Nicholas Ridley, as they burned alive at Oxford, for heresy, on October 16, 1555. Upon what the woman said when Montag first arrived at the scene he re-told it to Captain Beatty who to him that. 

Montag also comes home to figure out that Mildred and Montag don't remember how they met. This implies that he...he is actually thinking about the past. This section is important because, Montag...he is going against the government. Stealing a book and thinking about the past, his daily, simple morning routine ruined.