The man with all of the ideas is Ray Bradbury, the man behind Fahrenheit 451 and so many other classics. It was very cool watching these interviews because you get to hear the reasons and the ideas all right at the source. He seems like such a fun guy and a very nice man. His life is intriguing from start to present. As a kid he follows wha he loves to do and leaves behind death. He conquers his fear of flying by making himself fly on a plane. The way his greatest books come together took him just hours to write. And F451 was written in a library within a day!
Ray Bradbury was inspired as a boy, and now he has inspired me to really start pursuing what i love. His quote "Do what you love and love what you do," is going to be one of my moto's for the rest of my life. I love to drum and climb: that is what ive come up with so far. I will start to pursue those things and see where it takes me.
I really hope his film comes together because he is such a good man and has lived a very long time to see this ambition become a reality. F451 was a film before but not a very great one at all. Next time around, it will be because Ray will be right there with the production guys creating it.
Thank you Ray Bradbury, i will always remember your name, your books, and your quote.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Fahrenheit Four Fifty One
The word that first comes to mind about F451 is THRILLER! The reason I say this is because it has the perfect formula of plot and suspense to create an essence of worry.
THE PLOT
When first reading this book, I was lost in what to think or what to expect. I didn't know what was happening and what time period it was in. As I progressed through the book, I became caught up in the story once I started feeling that this was my own warped time period; the technology seemed the same but the habits were a bit different. People were brainwashed in a society so overly packed with wastes of time that it became very much empty. Montag was also going with the empty flow, until a girl named Clarisse planted an idea in his head - the idea of being different. Questions like "what if these books have real meaning?" and "Could this life we all live in nearly be a waste?" are subjects i believe he started thinking about. He smuggles out a book from a fire trip and brings it home. The plot thickens as the people he knows start to turn on him. The book ends with him burning his own house down and then running away from everything when he nearly gets arrested and killed. He escapes the police and the city just hours before a nuclear bomb lands on the city.
Now what a rivetting story! Imagine yourself at the center of that. It would be a perfect story of suspense! The action at the end that come out of no where is so amazing because it ties everything together. This book was a great one and will always be one of my favorites.
THE PLOT
When first reading this book, I was lost in what to think or what to expect. I didn't know what was happening and what time period it was in. As I progressed through the book, I became caught up in the story once I started feeling that this was my own warped time period; the technology seemed the same but the habits were a bit different. People were brainwashed in a society so overly packed with wastes of time that it became very much empty. Montag was also going with the empty flow, until a girl named Clarisse planted an idea in his head - the idea of being different. Questions like "what if these books have real meaning?" and "Could this life we all live in nearly be a waste?" are subjects i believe he started thinking about. He smuggles out a book from a fire trip and brings it home. The plot thickens as the people he knows start to turn on him. The book ends with him burning his own house down and then running away from everything when he nearly gets arrested and killed. He escapes the police and the city just hours before a nuclear bomb lands on the city.
Now what a rivetting story! Imagine yourself at the center of that. It would be a perfect story of suspense! The action at the end that come out of no where is so amazing because it ties everything together. This book was a great one and will always be one of my favorites.
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