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.

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.  

Mechanical Hound (Lesllie)

My opinion of the mechanical hound is that I think it is very useful but then again it isn’t because it is hurting someone that has no reason to be hurt in that way. And well the good thing about it is that it does work that us humans don’t want to do. I don’t consider it a symbol. Because anyone could have a different picture of what it means and different beliefs of what it really means. I do find ironic qualities in the hound because in our world normally a dog is a guys everything or loyal friend who they can count on of that is just someone too have around just so you wouldn’t get that lonely feeling. But in the story it is it the total opposite it is used for killing anything that is not doing what its suppose to and for it too do the humans dirty work so us humans don’t have to get our hands dirty doing what they seem to be taught to do. The hound could be a humans worst friend and there is irony in that sentence because in our world is the total opposite , in the book they are treat to kill and serve there owner or department and accomplish the job and normally a dog is a great friend to any human being especially kids.