Log Entry #6
Fahrenheit 451
Log Entry #6
In this chapter Beatty discuses how the world came to be how it is. That, no particular person changed the world, but a event did. After the Civil World the invention of photography, motion pictures, basically the twentieth century. Things started to have mass. Resulting in less reading, everything began simpler! Soon snap ending were taken in, in other words cutting films to be fifteen minutes long or less. The people became hooked to simpler things, had they decided their own fate? Yes, entirely...they chose to put down books, it became a norm. The people wanted to live with happiness, and so Beatty claims, Firemen are the protectors of that happiness. That this peace they are in is what everyone wants. Really? Did everyone? No, they didn't, i'm guessing that since a majority of the people dropped the culture that the government just went with the majority and pushed the minority to become the majority. "There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, you are allowed to read comics, the good old confessions, or trade journals." Meaning, we brought censorship into the world, without even knowing it! It was the price for the twentieth century. Intellectual became a swear word. "Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom' Cabin. Burn it." Beatty, knew about Clarisse and her family; glad she's gone, she was a problem. "People talk too much. They have time to stop and think."
Importance: Captain Beatty warns Montag about his stolen book. They will give the fellow fireman 24 hours to dispose of the book and if not done Beatty and the others will help Montag burn it.
VOCAB:
exploitation- use or utilization, especially for profit
titillation- to excite or arouse agreeably
pagan- one of a people or community observing a polytheistic religion, as the ancient Romans and Greeks: no longer in technical use.
melancholy- a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
FIGURTIVE LAN.
"Clarisse. That Girl was a time bomb." - meaning: it was a matter of time before she did something wrong; she will unravel that way the word is.
Mocha - outstanding job on this log! I'm impressed (and I don't get impressed often). BTW - Look up "Little Black Sambo" - it's an allusion to a real children's book. And think why Beatty mentioned it and UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I understood the allusions to those books, I had talked about them before in my eighth grade US History class. I'll add those in later. Thanks !
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