Sunday, May 31, 2009

6. Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and co

Passage: It was a pleasure to burn. It was a speical pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with his great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playin gall the sympnoies of blazing and burning to bring down the tattersa and charcoal ruins of history.
This passage was actually the first two to three senteces from the beginning of the book on page one. The main reason i chose this passage was because i realized how much Guy Montag changed throughout the story. That is why this first passage was one of my favorites. In the beginning, Guy Montag was like every other figherfighter; loving to burn down houses that had books in them. But then suddenly one day when his friends were burning down a house he saw this grandma holding on to the books with her life and she just stayed in the burning house until she died. Montag saw this and this is the turning point where he realizes that if someone died for the books then the books obviously had some improtance to them and that is when the dramatic change takes place. He suddenly starts to take out some books that he hid from a long time ago and starts to read them, although he does not understand a word the books are saying. But anyway that was the favorite passage for me.

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