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Wednesday, February 20, 2008


1st question: Who are the main characters in the novel? do you like them? why or why not? what is special about them? what do they reveal about the universal human experience?

- The main characters of this book are Guy Montag, the fireman, Mildred Montag, wife of Guy Montag who always watches television, Captain Beatty, also a fireman like Guy Montag, but is a boss of Guy, and Professor Faber, who helps Guy Montag throughout his journey to find the real happiness by reading books and finding the real meaning of the books.
In these characters, I liked Guy Montag, but didn't like Mildred or Beatty because of their actions shown throughout the book. In the book, the character's world is totally different from our world that they hate and prohibit reading books; they also punish the reader.
Guy Montag, was a fireman, who burns books. One day, Guy meets a girl named Clarisse; Clarisse asks if he is happy, but Guy just smiles and comes into the house. However, he realizes that he is not really 'happy.' Day by day, Montag meets Clarisse outside and talks with her. He starts to be influenced by Clarisse.
One day, Montag heads to an old woman's house to burn the books on her attic. When the books fell into Montag's hands, he secretly hides in his jacket and takes it to home. Few days later, he hears that Clarisse died by a car accident; Montag gets shocked and after, he decides to read the books and find the solution for his dissatisfaction towards his life.
In this part, I liked Guy Montag because he was trying to find the real meaning of his life through reading the books. Even though reading the books were outlawed, he didn't refuse reading, but admit it. The most interesting part of the book was that Guy Montag never give up reading books. He continues his journey even though he was chased, and had no supports. As I looked at Guy Montag continuing his journey, I was affected by the endurance and the spirit he had.

2 comments:

Stephen Eun said...

I liked Guy Montag the best in the story too. I liked the way how he was always thinking for a better life instead of the horrible life he really was living in. It was how he really tried to change the lives of the people that really seemed to really 'impress(?)' me.

Stacy Park said...

Mee too. Guy Montag was one of my favorite character of this book but I like Clarisse better. She attracted me more by her weird and mysterious personality. I liked the way how you said that you liked Montag because of his passion of books. In this part, I liked Guy Montag because he was trying to find the real meaning of his life through reading the books. He never gave up even though reading books were outlawed which made me also affected by Montag's spiritual passion of reading books. By the way, when you said that Montag didn't have any supports, I think he acutually had one-Faber.^^
Good Job Arial~