My Big Question/ November

Why does time keep going and never stops?

20 Questions

1. I think that Bradbury had chosen the first chapter to be “The Hearth and the Salamander” because he introduces the fire fighter Montag. He is the meaning for salamander and his home place is the hearth where the fire lays. The connection that he is making is based off the conflict between Montag and himself .

2. The guy Montag is a fire fighter who spends most of his time at fires watching things being burned down things while trying to control it make it stop.

3. The author might of chosen to characterize a fire hose as a “great python” because he is comparing how a python venom can keep someone getting worse and worse with the hose with wouldn’t help save the people and just keep causing the fire to grow. My thought is that his imagery is a negative thought because it isn’t helping to keep the fire out.

4. Montag’s firemen’s helmet has the number 451 on it because it symbolizes the degree at which book burn to.

5. Clarisse McClellan is first described as a slender and milk- white face almost as a pale surprise with dark eyes. She imitates Montag by the way she had been looking at him making him feel that she was waiting for him.

6. The names Clarisse and Guy are significant because they symbolize their they own personality and on how they act towards something or someone.

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Breaking the Law

I think that it is wrong to break the law when it is based off something that puts other lives in danger. When it relates to fighting for what you think is good, that is a good cause to break the law.

So This Guy Goes For a Walk

Ray Bradbury had written a story called “The Pedestrian.” He had wrote this story based of a experience he had from getting stoped by a police officer for walking at night. The story tone seems to be autobiographical and mysterious because it’s odd to get pulled over for just walking and not doing nothing bad. It took place in his neighborhood sidewalk at a time around 8 in the evening. Leonard Mead wasn’t married but is an inocente person who is a writer.

My Author, My Hero

James Joyce is an novelist, he is one of the important and inspiring author from the 20 century. His novels and quotes changed how people view and think about writing.

In Thoreau’s Words

1)    “It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”
            -Henry David Thoreau 
In this quote it refers onto personality by saying that what is show on the outside doesn’t describe who they really are until they do something.

2)   “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
            -Henry David Thoreau 
The meaning to this quote is based on observing ourselves; it’s saying that until we are by ourselves and don’t know what to do next in life we start to figure out the true meaning to what we want to become.

3)    “Friends....they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.”
             - Henry David Thoreau 
It is referring to trust and friendship by saying that your friend will support you on your dream and hopes that you would want to reach.

4)     “I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.”
             - Henry David Thoreau 
In this quote it refers to what you have, it explains that to be grateful for what you have and to don’t ask for what you aren’t or have.