Are you a Millie or a Faber?

so it occurred to me that Montag's decision is really really hard.

it's not easy to totally go against everything you have been taught to basically be a revolutionary for what you believe is truly right - to go against society and do something everyone (well, MOSTLY everyone) is telling you is wrong.

I wonder how many people reading this book look at their 55in TV and say "that would never happen to me" or how many people look at their 55in TV and watch "programs...some of the best ever...oh, you know, the bunch" (p49).

whose side are you on?

Beatty the bad guy?

I am fascinated by Beatty the fire chief, whose character is full of contradictions. For instance, he spouts quotations with ease and yet claims he hasn't read the books in his secret library. He is too knowledgeable and self-aware to believe in what he is doing, yet he pursues his profession with (feigned?) enthusiasm. Did he know about the secret society of book memorizers? Maybe he chose to die because he realized he could never join them. Beatty seems more tragic than evil.

What book would you save?

"Montag's hand closed like a mouth, crushed the book with wild devotion, with an insanity of mindlessness to his chest...Montag had done nothing. His hand had done it all, his hand, with a brain of its own, with a conscience and a curiosity in each trembling finger, had turned thief. Now it plunged the book back under his arm, pressed it tight to sweating armpit, rushed out empty, with a magician's flourish!" -page 38





If you could save just one book from being burned, what book would you choose and why?