Hey its time for school! That's what i would think if my day was full of sports and watching "T.V. teachers." The truth is, though, after a while it would get boring. That's all the kids go and do at school in Fahrenheit 451. How would you like it if you went to school, played all kinds of sports, and sat in front of a T.V. that was a teacher who just fed you information? the information isn't even about important stuff. That would seem fun for a little while but you're not learning anything. Pretty soon the fun stuff becomes the boring stuff. what about you're future? The kids in the book already are not happy even though the schools are suppose to be fun. After school the kids go home and bully other people around. WHAT? I can't see the fun in bullying a person around. In the book that's all the kids have to do though. they don't know anything else because their lives are filled with too much fun. They are not sure what fun is anymore even though they think they do. I can maybe see America going in this direction. There are already smart boards in our classrooms. That's maybe might not be such a big threat though. I'm just saying that classrooms are being filled with more and more technology and kids are already doing dangerous things that could kill themselves for fun. I would hate to have a life as a kid in this book. In the book it talks about fun parks. I'm guessing that they are like amusement parks with rides like Cedar Point. I absolutely love Cedar Point and I would hate to get tired of it. What would a life be like if even Cedar Point got boring? I know a bunch of kids that like to talk and talk. I can't even imagine when kids don't talk anymore. In our time that's almost the only way for us to get anything done. I don't understand how kids can live their lives like this and not realize that something is not right. I think that kids have the most creative minds in the world. What an insipid life it would be to live as a kid in this time period. Never ever being able to enjoy life's simple pleasures. I'm glad we live in this time period. "laugh out loudly" This is all i have to say on this.
~Luke Brubaker~
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I agree with Luke. If i went to school everyday and just sat in a chair looking at a T.V. taking notes I wouldn't learn much and it would be a pretty boring day. I wouldn't like to live in this time period either. Everyday I would be scared, because you never know what might happen. I could be walking down the street and some kid that wants to have fun could come up and kill me. Taking a life isn't what I call fun. I am also glad that I live in this time period.
ReplyDelete-Aaron McClellan
"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling the vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness there is at last one that makes the heart run over." This passage to me me is saying that friendship can't just happen with the snap of a finger. You have to work for it; 'drop by drop'. In my opinion, I feel that when the point of overflowing occurs, then the drops should still continue. Your kind actions must still remain to keep the vessel continuing to overflow. So, I enjoyed reading this part of the book becauase it made me look at friendship in a different way.
ReplyDeleteLaney Ellzey :)
I totally agree with Luke on this one. I don't understand how all of the kids in the book don't talk or even think. I don't think that kids today will ever get to the point where they don't talk or think. Kids and teens today enjoy talking; I know i do! I also do not see how the kids in this book see how bullying each other would be something to do for fun. Today, teens play sports and enjoy hanging with friends for fun, but in Fahrenheit 451, the kids are not allowed to do this. I would never want to see today's world end up being like Fahrenheit 451. I think that most people would not like it at all. I enjoy reading this book, so I can see how the world is changing and to see if it will end up like Fahrenheit 451.
ReplyDelete--Ashley Schnipke(:
Imaging life being this way is completly repulsive to me. School may not be enjoyable, but it would certainly be terrible if school was just being fed information and then playing some sports. I have to be taught to learn. Memorizing facts is not learning. I also believe that some of the technology used in schools today, like smart boards, is a step towards Fahrenheit 451 direction. The more technology there is, the less books there are. That is scary to think about. As for the bullying and killing of kids, I think it isn't too crazy of an idea. I mean it happens everyday. The bullying goes on everywhere in one form or another. The killing happens in big cities with gangs. There are kids in these gangs, and they do kill people. So our society today is to some degree the same as the book. Kids today don't realize how great of a gift school is. If we didn't go to school then would things be like Fahrenheit 451? Noone taking the time to read or actually think? If we don't live up to our full potential then school starts to become just a memorization of facts and social time. I believe that if kids don't start thinking things will go downhill and possibly become the life the poeple live in 451.
ReplyDelete-Danielle Hitchcock
I agree with Luke too. If everyone would do that in school im sure it would get boring and then the kids wouldnt learn anything. Then kids just start to not do anything with there future and want to just kill people and think they are having fun, and are happy.But are they really happy? They think they are.If Clarrise asked them if they were happy too; would they start thinking about it too? Then the kids just want instant entertainment and find way to find it. They usually go out and kill people or as Mildred does.Which is she goes out a runs over things with her car, watches her 'family' and drowns life out by listening to her seashells. That is all society wants anymore.
ReplyDeleteOur socitey is kinda going toward the Fahrenheit 451. Kids kill in bigger citys and kids are bullied everyday. As for the smart board; i dont think its going toward the society in Fahrenheit 451, because its just another way to teach. Its like the white boards we have, but it is better. The smart board isnt teaching us or anything.It just helps the teachers teach us.
-Lindsay Lamb*:)
I agree with luke on this one too. He is totally correct in saying that after a while things would get boring. I can admit im not a person that enjoys school very much. I absolutly love sports but if i did the same thing every day it would get really old. It would be all fun in games in the beginning but after a couple weeks it would get old. Kids would start doing other stuff to entertain themselves. Some of them might start doing bad stuff like drugs or killing people. Then what would the society turn out to be, a big war between everyone? Like survival of the fittest? Or what? I dont even wanna imagine what it would be like. It would end up bad.
ReplyDeleteThis is a kinda different subject but i wanted to say something about Clarisse. She was in school and they took her out but what if they wouldn't of? She could of probably got all the kids thinking like she did to Montag by asking them if they were happy. I wonder if that would of changed the society. If they wouldn't of took her out of school would everyone start thinking like Montag? Could they of got the society back to the way it was before? Would fire fighters stop burning down houses and actually do their job and put fires out? I ask myself these questions everytime i think about Clarisse and her impact on Montag.
~Tiffany~