Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Fahrenheit 451

what is the mood of this novel? do you find this novel saddens you in any way? why?I think there is few different moods in this novel. At first, it was like emptiness. People in the novel are living without any purpose, no question or anything. Montage just find books and burn them, I felt nothing at this part. As book goes on, the mood changed to little bit nervous because of the feeling that might be caught by the firemen that Montage had keeping books in his house. Even though he was a fireman and he knows the rule, he kept books to figure out the meaning of the books. Another mood like sadness is appeared at the latter part of the novel because Montage had lost his wife and he can not remember anything about her, but he does not feel sad or anything like that, and he thought it is because he was not close enough with his wife, so he is regretting that what he had done in the past. At the same time, I think there was some kind of mood like angry, because he was a fireman and he can not forgive what he had done to books. I found saddens in this novel when the Montage was talking to the Granger's party that even though he had lost his wife, Mildred Montage, he was not feeling anything. How sad would it be if people are not feeling anything or have no feeling even though their member of family is dead. I think this part of the novel was little bit sadden.

2 comments:

Robin Cha said...

You almost felt same as me. I also felt little empty. And the mood was so tragic. The government is too overpowered. They should protest.
Nice job!!

TOVK said...

I really have to agree in many ways with you in how you felt! There really was a feeling of emptiness in the beginning with...well nothign and then the angers arising in the mood of the novel then finishing off with the sadness that the anger has brought!
Awsome job~!