Igniting the flame

 TRIGGER WARNING for suicide and mental health!

    Many people have either read Fahrenheit 451 on their own or as a school assignment. I had to read this book as an assignment last year and i still find it quite fascinating. I have heard 50/50 about his book that they either hated it or loved it. I think it depends on if the teacher enjoyed teaching it like mine with keeping me intrigued and wondering. The basic gist of the book is a futuristic world where books are illegal, and firefighters are meant to burn books, not put out fires. The main character being Montag who is a fire"fighter".



    There were quite a few things that I could write about in the book. For one it is quite mess up when you think about it. (duh it's a dystopian) After the first time I finished this book, it left me thinking. I thought about this book constantly the whole day and I kept on having questions I could not answer like. How could a government get this way and why is everyone so fine with people dying all the time and are overall, so cold. I wondered why they lack their emotions. It's almost as if it's our world but worse off on mental health education. His wife nearly succeeded in committing suicide via pills and average workers come into the house to pump her stomach and say they have more lined up after her. Shes done this three times and Montag, and the wife failed to acknowledge just how messed up it is. The literal child aged 16 tells Montag that "Six of my friends have been shot this year alone. Ten of them died in car wrecks. I'm afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm afraid." But it's also the fact they just marry a random person just to be married. He realized he doesn't love her at all, he doesn't even know anything about her. Like their strangers in the same house.

    I personally think Fahrenheit 451 would make a good thriller/action movie. It has suspense, action scenes, and some creepy parts. But they MESSED them up! The most recent on is the 2018 Fahrenheit movie. The past two and 2018's movie they aged up the sixteen-year-old girl a little bit so she could play as a LOVE INTREST for a middle-aged married man.....


    One I find this disgusting but also, they took out two really important parts of the book that just killed the movie. The girl being switched changes the plot a lot. She was originally supposed to be a start Montag's spiral into chaos and to get him thinking "Am I happy?" which becomes a slippery slope into madness. She then disappears creating a feeling of anxiety in the main character to get him questioning the government and how sick everyone around him really is. When he asked around about he, they said she either moved or she's dead. The second thing is in the 2018 movie they took out the wife completely, which takes out the disturbing scene of her nearly dying and her melancholy reaction leading to another spiraling point for Montag.

A quick side note how I acutely liked how they showed him spiraling into madness my having lines repeat over and over and over and over.....until complete nonsensical sentences.

Comments

  1. AnonymousFebruary 20, 2024 at 6:00 AM

    Like you have mentioned, a lot of people read this book for a school assignment, and I was one of those people. And after I read the book, I never really found an interest in the book, and to be completely honest, I pretty much stopped reading after the first chapter because I wasn't interested in it. But I really liked how you explained the book in a different perspective from what I saw when reading and you really only explained it in a series of questions that make the reader of your blog think. And the way you explained the differences from the book to the movie was also really nice, because I totally agree, the movie was so different from the book but not in a good way. I give this blog a 5/5!

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 22, 2024 at 9:26 AM

    i had to read this book last year and i personally loved the book. we also watched the movie and i enjoyed the movie a lot more than i did the book but i was one of the people that enjoyed reading that book. i liked how you talked about the book in a different perspective than the way i thought about the book. i give the blog a 5/5

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 29, 2024 at 9:26 AM

    I had to read this book my freshman year and i really did not like it. like it really upset me that i had to read it but i think it was the way it was taught to me. but um the girl being a love interest? yeah, no. this reminds me of an off white color like the Banana Mania Crayola crayon (which doesn't come in the 16, 24, 32, or 62 box btw). But its like because that's how i pictured that houses in the book and idk when i think of fire i think of that color and whateva. but i like that you like the brought up how some people liked it and some people didn't.

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 29, 2024 at 9:37 AM

    I had to read this book last year as well, but I felt indifferent about it. It gave me a "meh" kind of feeling. I thought the movie was weird and I wouldn't want to watch it again, and I would rather read the book over watching the movie. I liked how you explained the book in a different way than I would. It reminds me of a blue-ish grey. Like a wild blue yonder. I enjoyed the blog though. 5/5

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