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

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.  

Banning Books (Niecee)

         Personally, I think that it was easier just to ban the books & burning everything having to do with history, rather than having to face what happen then compared to what’s happening now in the future.

In Fahrenheit 451 the officials didn’t want everything to know that there was once upon a time that they were able to read books. In Captain Beatty say’s “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?” this means that no matter what you thought of what you think you might know, someone knowledge can change your whole perspective about of things are supposed to be.

Can I see this happening on our society today? No, I mean they can only try so much to hide things away from society before someone actually finds out what they’re up to. Bases on all the technology that’s being made & or not even thought of yet, makes it even more harder to actually go around to each & every state, every country trying to burn books. Everyone has the freedom to read & do what you will at your approximate age that you be given to do things on your own free will, without having to deal with that law.

Trying to ban something or anything from begin seen or read is just taking away everyone right from having the “Freedom of speech.”

        

A book is a loaded gun (Aaliyah)

I think the target might be anyone, because if people started reading books, then they would have more knowledge then the people that do not read books, the power that he gave them was letting them control him, and by saying “a book is a loaded gun in the house next door”, that could mean who ever is reading the books it is making their life all about books and is loosing sight of the world they live in. I think that they thought it would be easier for everyone to be on the same page, meaning everyone would all know the same thing no one would know more then the other. I can see this happening now to a certain degree, there are things that the government would like to keep hidden form us so that no one would know more then they want us to know. In the book they burned the books to keep them from finding out the truth, or what life could be, or what life was. Now they don’t have to burn books because society has new ways of finding out the truth of what was, what is, and what will be. I think the world would be a better place if everyone had free will to find out what they wanted to know and to keep hidden what they didn’t what to know without having to worry about what would happen if they knew to much.