F451 91-110

In the first scene Mildred's friends come over to watch some show in the parlour. Montag sees this and is disturbed because it is a perfect example of the ignorance and stupidity of society, what he had just been discussing with Faber. He is outraged and throws a fit, revealing his possesion of books to Mildred's friends.

In the next scene, Faber has convinced Montag to go back to the fire station. This is the beggining of their scetchy almost-impossible plan. They are playing cards and Beatty goes on and on about this dream where he was arguing with Montag and they were both quoting books. This part really confused me because I don't understand how Beatty is so well versed, if he himself is in charge of riding the world of books. I think there is some symbolism involved in this, but i don't thouroughly understand it.

I enjoyed the figurative language Bradbury used on page 95 as he described Mildred's friends. "... lighting cigarettes, blowing smoke, touching their sun-fired hair, and examing thir blazing fingernails as if they had caught fire from his look." I really like the way he describes these women's hair because it makes me think of all the dry split ends and overly-bleached hair that we see commonly on women today. This choice of words undoubtably puts an image of fire into the reader's mind. I'm not sure if irony is the correct word to use for what I'm trying to say, but I find it interesting that Bradbury keeps making these references to fire in his adjective-packed descriptions. Montag is angry at these women, and describes them using words associated with fire, and burning. This ties into what I said last night about the reoccuring images of fire in the book representing the character's anger.

Untill tommorow night,
Beth the Viking