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       Montag leaves the house and finds friends along the railway. The people by the train tracks showed Montag the live broadcast of the mechanical hound following and tracking him down. Granger explains how he is like Montag by the fact that once he was chased and he had memorized all of these books. They all had this happen to them and Montag realizes this. Granger tells Montag that they are not the only people that do this, there are people all around the country that do this. They have an effective system so they only read the book one time and then they burn it themselves.  Literary elements:  Simile: " When we heard you plunging around out in the forest like a drunken elk we didn't hide like we usually do." Metaphor:  "He was a thing of brush and liquid eye, of fur and muzzle and hoof, he was a thing of horn and blood that would smell like autumn if you bled it out onto the ground." Allusion:  "This id Fred Clement, former occupant of the ...

       Montag is at Faber's house and they hear the program on tv.  Montag sees that Faber is uncomfortable and he wants Montag to leave. Montag tells Faber to clean and burn everything as he is leaving. Montag packs a suitcase full of Faber's dirty cloths and leaves. He run through the streets because in ten seconds everybody is going to be looking out onto the street. Montag runs to the river where he jumps in and starts to go down the stream very fast. The mechanical hound misses him by about a minute and turns to go inland. Once Montag reached shore he got out to be greeted by a mysterious animal. He thought it was the hound, but it was only a deer.  Literary elements: Simile "Came the helicopter like a grotesque flower."  Allusion "Keystone comedy, cops, robbers, chasers, and the chased." Irony "Montag jammed his seashell to his ear." Simile "Montag dived under the great illumination as if the sun had broken the clouds."  Vocabulary:...

    Montag runs from the scene where he gets to a gas station. He tells them that he needs to hide or change how he looks and very quick. He then goes out into the streets where there is a car driving down the road and screaming at him. He thinks to himself that maybe those are the people that killed Clarise. They continue to drive up the road until they come to a sudden stop. They swing a U turn and start flying towards Montag on the wrong side of the street. Montag quickly runs into an ally and hides in the darkness. He then goes to Faber's house where they exchange money and watch some television. They realize that there is a new mechanical hound that has a live camera broadcasting on live tv. Montag decides he will go to a Hobo camp to hide along the train tracks.  Literary elements:  Simile: "Baked like a roach in that small green capsule" Simile: "It seemed like a boat less river frozen there in the raw light." Vocabulary: Phosphorescent means a type of li...

 Montag is told to burn his own house down by Beatty. He says he will not do this because it is his own house and he can't bring himself to do it. Faber is trying to convince Montag to run, but the mechanical hound is there and ready to attack Montag. He goes into his house with a flame thrower to torch it, but he turns around and torches Beatty instead. He knocks the other two fire men out and then kills the hound. Mildred has run away in the beetle taxi. Montag is walking down the street with a poisoned and dysfunctional leg as the pages end. Literary elements:  Allusion: "He wanted to fly near the sun and now he has burnt his damn wings" Metaphor: " The brush of a death's-head moth against a cold black screen" Simile "The books leapt and danced like roasted birds."

 Montag is playing cards with Beatty as he keeps getting hit with the feeling to go wash his hands. He needs to wash his dirty conscience off of his hands. He goes to the bathroom two times int he span of about 30 minutes. When he comes back to the table he puts his cards under. They get an alarm that they need to go burn a house down. As they drive the fire truck their Montag starts to feel sick. That is nothing once he realizes what house they have stopped in front of. It is Montag's house and that means somebody that knew about his books ratted.  Literary elements: Simile and a metaphor in the same sentence, "The men ran like cripples in there clumsy boots, as quietly as spiders." Salamander is a symbol Washing his hands is an allusion to the bible Vocabulary words:  Tyranny means cruel/aggressive government or ruler.

       In the pages we read today and on Friday a lot happened. Mildred had her friends over to watch a tv show. However, Montag comes home while they are watching. He tries extremely hard to make small talk and visits many subjects, but they don't bite. He gets annoyed by the fact that they are so sucked into their tv show and not caring about anything, but their own entertainment that he leaves. He goes and grabs a poetry book and comes back. Faber is yelling in his ear the whole time to stop, but he doesn't stop. He brings the book out to Mildred's friends and asks what poem they want to here. Mildred comes up with a story so they don't report him. He starts to read the poem to them. One of them burst into tears and the other starts to yell at him. Montag tells them he will kick them out as Mildred starts to head to the bathroom. She goes in and takes a large dose of pills so she can go to sleep.  Literary elements:  "killed jumping off buildings" this i...

 These ten pages where along the same lines as yesterdays pages. The professor named Faber met with Montag on the subway. Together they read the book and discuss what is happening. At first Faber is uncomfortable doing this because he is with a fireman and he thinks it may be a trap. However, he does it anyways. As they read it starts to flow back to Faber in a way he hasn't felt in a while. He says that he forgot this feeling. In my opinion Faber shouldn't have risked everything to help Montag interpretate the book because it could have been a trap. Although the story would not have flowed the same way. The story is about trying to figure out what is going on in the book before he has to give it back for burning.  Literary elements: "What knocked the torch out of your hand" this is a metaphor because it shows him becoming more scared about  "The salamander devours his tail" this is a symbol "Men quoting Milton" is an allusion Vocabulary:  linguist...

 Montag and Mildred are reading the books in the house together when a dog comes to the door. Montag tells Mildred to stop reading the books and to stay were she is. He goes to the door to see if it is the mechanical hound, but it is Faber. Faber is a former english teacher. Montag's mind immediately goes to the fact that Faber could help him comprehend what is going on. Faber goes home and Montag gets on the subway. He is trying to memorize the book as many different commercials and sounds are playing in the background. I feel as though Montag is doing the right thing by giving the book back and trying to memorize it, but I also feel like it will backfire on him. If he tells somebody that he has a book memorized then he is going to get in a lot of trouble. He should just abide by the rules and give it back after 24 hours. Literary elements: "My family is people. They tell me things: I laugh they laugh! And the colors!" this is irony  "He stared at the parlor that wa...

 The Skagway river was running like a torrent. (Noun)  A stream of flowing water that is rapid  I was thinking like a figment when I was hanging out with my imaginary friends. (Noun) A mere product of mental invention 

 Beatty arrives at Montag's house to see why he was not at work that day. Montag tells him he was sick. They start to discuss the topic of books and how the government did not actually banned books. It was actually people getting so lazy with the reading of the books. The books began to become shorter and shorter until they were so small it wasn't even a book. People did this to themselves, but once they were gone and made illegal it was a big deal to so many people. The fire men decided that nobody should have books and they started to burn instead of putting out. Montag also decides to open up to his completely loving wife named Mildred, he tells her that he says saved books before and he wants to read them with her. They end up reading the books together and reading until they know whats going on. Literary elements: Situational Irony: " We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal as the Constitution says, but everyone made free and equal"  Little black s...

 Montag starts to feel sick due to a couple of problems. First he does not want to be a fire fighter anymore because of the gruesome and awful things that they are doing to people. They brunt a woman alive with her books and he can't stand to be in that business anymore. He also has fallen out of love with his hating wife named Mildred.  Simile:  Her body as thin as a praying mantis from dieting, and her flesh like white bacon 

 I used the strategy of exploitation to get every thing I wanted from the store. Charlie and I had a quibble about who got to eat the last Laffy Taffy.