This novel's theme and topic of censorship I felt was well portrayed through out the novel and the author made it very clear threw his writing style and technique. I felt Clarisse was the best character in the novel. She was the fresh beginning to Montag's new views and obsession with books and breaking away from the norm of society. She is the character that, in my opinion, that is most important to the novel because with out her Montag would have continued his normal routine.
My favorite quote of this novel is on page 10 when Clarisse asked, "Are you happy?" This is my favorite quote because this one small sentence makes Montag realize that he is not happy but society is trying to tell him he is. He realizes that he has been told he was happy for so long he began to believe it himself. This one quote set Montag off and he starting thinking beyond the picture for the fist time. She made him question and think more than he's ever had to before.
I did not like this novel at all. It was difficult to follow and was even more difficult to get into. The only part of this book I remotely enjoyed were the parts that Clarisse was in because she was the one that made the most sense to me. I feel the author dragged things on too much that did not need to be and rushed the really important parts, like the ending of the novel when Montag burns his house then the hound and Beatty. The most climatic scene of the whole novel and it was done in two short pages.
It was also difficult to understand what the characters were talking about and doing because it was written so long ago, and yet when it was written it was a futuristic novel which is now our present. It was one confusing mess. Like the war that was going on, I wanted to know who was fighting us but it was never told. And I never fully understand the parlor walls either. This was probably my least favorite book ever.
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I feel that we are definitely misinformed by the author. Like you said with the war and how you wanted to know who was fighting us, I feel that this along with so many things were left blank. We were never really informed about things such as the reason behind burning books, how people had or were getting books, how the "walls" started, and many others. I feel that the author needed to back up more of the story. So many things were left unanswered.
Don't focus on the small detail questions. The parlor walls represent how we constantly distract ourselves with things like TV and the internet (a bit ironic). It doesn't matter who the war is against, only that there will always be a war or something of that nature to distract the people from how miserable their lives are.
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