Book is a loaded gun (Kara)

Captain Beatty says, “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?”  I believe by the quote captain Beatty says he is giving books a lot of power, almost like they see books as a threat that’s why they ban and burn them. Books have a lot of power because it has powerful knowledge. One reason why I think their society thinks its easier to ban books than to learn is because they are lazy and don’t have the ability to learn something new. Another reason is because they are so use to the process of discouraging books, banning and burning them that they never gave it a chance. They think it’s easier to ban books than to just think! When its really the other way around.  I cannot see this happening to our world because we have the ability to think, teach and learn. And sometimes we don’t even ready books to learn and study some read them for fun. If this were to happen to our world I think it would change how people look at life, all that reading learning and teaching for nothing. Captain Beatty’s society is negative; they don’t give new things a chance even if it’s for the better. Our society is way more positive than theirs. 

Mechanical Hound (Kennie)

My opinion on the Mechanical Hound is I think that is a great piece of artwork and can be very helpful but I wouldn’t use it because it has an evil look to it plus it kind of freaks me out also technology isn’t always reliable it could back fire on anyone you never know. Yes, I believe it is a symbol of dominance in something beside a humans it also is a symbol of something bad because of the way it looks, it just has an evil structure and the actions of it in the story makes me think it’s a symbol of something bad. The hound might suggest a potential base of evil just waiting to happen sometime unexpected in the story. I kind of find it ironic that it is a man made machine doing the things a real life organism would do, also when montage was a firemen and how the hound wasn’t going to attack him but it interrogated him and then at the end of the book the hound tried to kill him when Montag killed captain Beatty and the two other fireman. If the hound was man’s worse enemy the irony there would be that it was built to make life easier for us but it ended up turning it’s back on us and going against us.

A Book is a loaded Gun (Juan)

Juan Morales

4/17/13

Block 3

I was confused by the quote that Beatty mentioned. The books are giving the power of destroying, destroying peoples lives and or their way of living/ changing the person’s way of thinking and wanting to live. I think the society decided to band books because that was the cause it made people think when they were not supposed to think. The books were a symbol and comparison to guns because guns don’t kill people with weird thoughts killed other people. The books were used as a weapon and that why the firemen would burn them because they were like guns and guns gave people different mind thoughts and possibly cause crimes because of those thoughts. The books were a loaded gun in hands of all kinds of people and well the mechanical hound was a cop and the salamander was a fire truck. To were they both are supposed to prevent crimes and fires and or even accidents like people catching a book. Montag has books hidden in his house and his wife finds them and decides to call the salamander and well Montag is made to burn his house because he was keeping books when and while he was a firemen

BlogWeek2 Nature Vs Nurture

Trayvon Martin’s killer put him in a stereotype.  Nature vs. Nurture plays a big part in Trayvon’s killing. I feel that this is a chase of Nurture because the environment and the surrounding around the two had a very impact on the shooting. The environment around them may have been in a good neighborhood but because of a lot of violence and crimes that happen every were the killer put in his head that Trayvon was just another “criminal, man one on drugs, or robber” just because the color of Trayvon’s skin. The rest of the society is very uneasy because what happened. The community and around the world felt that, the shooting was uncalled for and racist. The killer said on the 911 call, Trayvon looked suspicious because it was raining and he was walking around looking at houses also that it looked like he was caring a gun. When police arrived the only thing Trayvon had in his front hoodie pocket was a pop and skittles. Trayvon had no priors or no criminal record. Trayvon might have had a bad day so he was walking around or he went to go buy a snack and something to drink and it happened to be raining. Then so guy happened to see him and think bad and put him in a stereotype of a bad African American and took it into his own hands. This is, were nature takes play there has to be something wrong in a man’s head to just kill someone walking down sidewalk. The killer could of easily waited for the police to show up and handle this “suspicious boy” with killing a innocent member of society 

Blogg (Incomplete)

Quincy Burks

                                                                                                                 April 4, 2013

                                                                                                                  English 2

                                                                                                                   Block 3

  Well the Mechanical Hound means a fireman that burns things that they do not accept. In my opinion I think the fireman burns any house that contains books mostly anything including people. I really don’t think it’s a symbol because that don’t represent as a symbol its just a word that’s meant to be defined. And it always explain about Fahrenheit 451

Mechanical (Destany)

My opinion on the Mechanical Hound is that he was a monster created and controlled by our government.  They used what was once known as man’s best friend to resemble a firehouse dog.  This was an eight legged hound or dog used to make the movie Fahrenheit 451.  (Did you know that that Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature that paper must reach to catch fire?)  This dog was not used as any normal firehouse dog, which would normally find and save people from fires.             However he was used to track down humans and kill them in most cases.  If you were found with books you could have been killed.  This dog would track you down and drug you and catch any books you were caught storing on fire.  I believe that the Mechanical Hound was definitely a symbol for the government being in control of what people read.  The mechanical hound taught the fireman how to suggest that books may actually be useful and that you may actually learn from what books had to say rather than burning the books as the hound was sent out to do.  I do find Ironic qualities in the hound for the fact that he did just the opposite of what any normal firehouse dog would do.  Instead of setting out to rescue people from already burning fires, the hound did just the opposite.  He would set the fires to kill and drug the humans.  He set out to prevent humans from reading books and actually learning.

              When Montag began to read the books himself he to realized that the Mechanical Hound was sent out to prevent humans from learning.  Once he began to hide books and understand what he was reading the Hound set out to get and inject him.  The Ironic quality is that the Hound had set off a bomb that sent the fireman into the wild with the rest of the human’s that could read.  Although the city had been burned the humans that could read were able to escape.  So just goes to show that the Ironic factor is that you can learn from reading.