Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Fahrenheit 451 Q4


What is the climax of this novel? What happens? how do the events of this novel make you feel?


In my opinion, the climax of this novel is when Mildred report to the government that her husband Guy Montag had done illegal things and being against the government. Because Guy Montag didn't know that his wife is really going to betray him. He seems to predict that his wife is in government side, but didn't know that his wife is going to betray him. Mildred ran way from her house.
And the Beatty comes and told Guy Montag to burn his house in front of him. And then warns him that if he ran away the mechanical hound, it will catch you. So Guy Montag burn his house with fire thrower into ashes by himself and then Beatty tried to arrest him and realized that he was listening to someone. Beatty realizes that it is the radio, so he was trying to find who Montag was taking to. It was Faber. But Guy Montag burned him into ashes with fire thrower. This kind of event makes me feel sad, because the Montag's life is like a hell.
His wife's betraying event that made him shock and trying to commit suicide made really sad for me, because if I was him I would be so desperate. Clarrie's unexpected death shocks him also. He wanted to learn and talk about the new things that he didn’t knew about. And murdering of Beatty made me sad, because he didn’t do anything wrong. He just followed the government because he was afraid of government. This makes them really sad. It shows that the society is began to collapsed.

2 comments:

k said...

I was not able to understand how Montag's heart was so painful that it is difficult to describe in the words. His shock when his wife betrayed his plan disturbed Montag's brain and led him to burn his own house in front of Beatty. Although Beatty was against Montag's plan, Beatty was still Montag's old friend who should had a power to deal with Montag's concerns. When Montag realized Beatty wanted die after Montag killed him, his mood was in great sorrow because Beatty had to obey the government. In addition to another shocking event, while Montag was walking away from his house, Clarrie's death reminded him when he saw the firemen.

Andrew Lee said...

I also agree with you. There can be lots of climax, but yours is right too. When Montag was caught that he was against the government, and he was trying to change the world, I was really sad. I hoped that Montag could change the world, but he could not change the world. This book showed me how important the books are. I really agree with you, Richard.