DOING THE RIGHT THING

5/29/15 homework

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Faber says that he feels alive for the first time in a long time and wonders if it’s because he’s doing the right thing. How do you feel when you do the very difficult-but-right thing? Or maybe you never have ... Why not?

MONTAG RUNS AWAY

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What do you think about the teenagers who almost run Montag over? Why are they doing that? What are they thinking?

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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Beatty says, “He is no wise man who quits a certainty for an uncertainty.” What does Beatty mean? Why is it unwise to quit certainty? How might it be wise?

MONTAG TALKS ABOUT DYING.

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Montag says, “That’s the good part of dying. When you’ve nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.” 

What does he mean?

 How is this the kind of interesting thing that should be put in good books?

WHAT MOTIVATES MONTAG AND WHAT MAKES GOOD LITERATURE

5/21/15 homework

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Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

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Faber says, “The good writers touch life often. the mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.” Are his thoughts about different quality of literature correct? What do you think makes good literature? What kind of writers don’t make literature at all? If it’s not literature, what is it?

5/22/15 homework

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Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

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Montag says, “That’s the good part of dying. When you’ve nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.” What does he mean? How is this the kind of interesting thing that should be put in good books?

MONTAG TALKS TO HIS WIFE MILDRED

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Montag tells his wife Mildred, “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in awhile. How long has it been since you’ve been really bothered by something important, about something real?”

Now you get to answer Montag’s question…how long has it been for you? What was the last really important thing that bothered you?

BEATTY TALKS TO MONTAG

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Beatty says, “You ask why to a lot of things and you end up very unhappy, indeed.”

 In your experience, how has this been true? 

How is “Why?” a bad question? 

So which is better: (1) not having any answers to anything or (2) having the answers and being unhappy?

EMOTIONAL EFFECT OF THE DANDELION ON MONTAG

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What kind of emotional effect does the dandelion have on Montag? Why does a silly little flower have such an effect? And what does it mean that it is the last dandelion of the season?

WHAT DO YOU SEE?

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Clarisse likes to watch people, to sit someplace like the subway and watch people. What do you think about her doing that? Have you done that? Why? Why not? What kinds of things do you see?

DOES BEING INQUISITIVE MAKE YOU HAPPY?

CLARISSE SAYS SHE IS CRAZY BECAUSE SHE LIKES TO WALK AND TALK TO OTHERS.

SHE IS CURIOUS ABOUT THE WORLD...SHE IS INQUISITIVE.

WHAT ARE YOU CURIOUS ABOUT?  DO YOU THINK YOU ARE INQUISITIVE?

IF SO, ABOUT WHAT?

DOES THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY? HOW?

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WHAT IS DISPOSABLE IN MONTAG'S WORLD AND WHAT IS DISPOSABLE IN OUR WORLD?

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Montag says that this is the age of the disposable tissue (i.e. Kleenex).

 What does he mean by that? In what ways is he correct? Is he saying this is a good thing or not? Why?

ARE WE ALL DISPOSABLE, TOO?

BILLIONS OF US

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Montag says, “There are too many of us, billions of us.” 

In what ways is he wrong? 

In what ways is he right?

PAYING ATTENTION TO THE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE

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Clarisse pays attention to little things, like the dew on the grasS

and the man on the moon.

List 10 little details about the world that you notice.