Now free in desolation, with nothing to lose, he commits murder, becomes a fugitive and unleashes fire on the state. Scott Neuffer is an award-winning journalist and writer who lives in Nevada. He holds a bachelor's degree in English and spent five years as an education and business reporter for Sierra Nevada Media Group.
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Bradbury portrays Mildred as a shell of a human being, devoid of any sincere emotional, intellectual, or spiritual substance. Ace your assignments with our guide to Fahrenheit !
SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Why did the government ban books? Why does Mildred overdose on sleeping pills? Therefore I take 20 minutes to read these 8 pages with students. I don't explain what I just stated outright, but I try to lay the foundation by talking through plot points, so that the students are prepared to develop these claims themselves down the road. In these pages, Montag:. When you look at the plot points, it does seem like nothing "happens," since there is no action.
It's all thinking and talking. And yet, we learn so much as Montag thinks, namely that humans need to be needed and to be a part of something RL. All of the things that he fights with in this section are explained by Faber in Part II of the text.
This section leads up Captain Beatty's visit to the house. We will focus on the interaction between characters RL.
Beatty arrives when Montag fails to go to work on time. Montag tries to talk to Mildred, to explain why he can't go to work today, but the more he talks about what he is thinking about and the old woman who was burnt with her books, the less she listens.
She says that she hates the woman and makes it clear that she wants Montag to go to work. She focuses mostly on her programs, at least until Beatty arrives and demands that the walls be turned off, something Mildred wouldn't do when Montag asked her to do it moments before. We will pause in the reading and discuss what her reaction to him shows about both characters RL. This is worth discussing, especially in contrast to the way that Clarisse affects Montag.
Beatty immediately makes himself at home and begins to explain the history of firefighters and current society. Students will read most of this conversation for homework, but we will start the conversation together, so that they read with purpose. We will focus on this explanation. For fun, I will show the class this article from The Onion: "Girl Moved to Tears By 'Of Mice and Men' Cliff Notes," which comments on the kind of reading and educational outlook prominent today; we read, not for enjoyment or enlightenment, but because it is a school requirement.
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