This assignment will count for a 10-point quiz grade, as will your blog post on the Scarlet Letter. To put this in perspective, your Scarlet Letter explication (reaction paper) is worth 50 points. Email Mr. Biggs AND Mr. Farley (both!) if you are interested in receiving your grade on this first assignment with feedback. Remember to take this assignment seriously - it is an official assignment that counts toward your first marking period grade. It also gives us a strong indication of your interest in literature and commitment to the program. Hope to see you in August at the Scarlet Letter workshop! -Mr. Farley and Mr. BiggsThursday, July 26, 2012
F451 Blogs: Top Honors
Hey everyone, Great job on your Fahrenheit 451 posts. Nearly all were interesting and well-composed. However, there were a few standouts, and we've included them here so you can all read and appreciate them. These posts combined thought-provoking, original thesis statements with strong textual support, logical structure and excellent prose. Congratulations to Hannah Haugenes, Matt Karr, Kenny Geiger, Alex Kaye, Cassie Jain, and Nicole Povey!
This assignment will count for a 10-point quiz grade, as will your blog post on the Scarlet Letter. To put this in perspective, your Scarlet Letter explication (reaction paper) is worth 50 points. Email Mr. Biggs AND Mr. Farley (both!) if you are interested in receiving your grade on this first assignment with feedback. Remember to take this assignment seriously - it is an official assignment that counts toward your first marking period grade. It also gives us a strong indication of your interest in literature and commitment to the program. Hope to see you in August at the Scarlet Letter workshop! -Mr. Farley and Mr. Biggs
This assignment will count for a 10-point quiz grade, as will your blog post on the Scarlet Letter. To put this in perspective, your Scarlet Letter explication (reaction paper) is worth 50 points. Email Mr. Biggs AND Mr. Farley (both!) if you are interested in receiving your grade on this first assignment with feedback. Remember to take this assignment seriously - it is an official assignment that counts toward your first marking period grade. It also gives us a strong indication of your interest in literature and commitment to the program. Hope to see you in August at the Scarlet Letter workshop! -Mr. Farley and Mr. Biggs
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Simin Postacioglu
James Farley
İGCSE English grade 10
16/10/2014
In the novel F451 by Ray Bradbury, the author suggest that authority takes freedom away from you; we unconsciously become their slave, illusion of freedom such as superficial choices blind us from reality. The specialism of freedom is represented when Captain Beatty quotes ‘ We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal.’(77) The constitution is represented as the antagonist of the story. This creates conflict between people like Clarisse, which speaks her mind but risks being marginalized, or Mildred, which accepts her reality and being equal to everybody else. Beatty in this case is defending Mildred in a kind of ironic way because he allows firemen to read the books to get the curiosity out of their system even tough it is illegal. ‘My uncle drove slowly on a highway once. He drove forty miles an hour and they jailed him for two days. Isn’t that funny, and sad, too?’(16) this quote said by Clarisse is an example of a higher authority enforcing the society of how to live their daily lives. The society has become so use to this idea that no one even questions why they are living that way any more. They are all under the illusion that they are in control of where they are going but they are blinded by the fact that authority is what is controlling their speed and in that case mind. Authority takes away their right to drive fast just incase they think which would be very unusual in their society. This society has a herd-mentality; when someone like Clarisse who in their eyes has unusual thoughts and is seen as anti-social is a threat to them. ‘ She didn’t want to know why but how things worked. You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl’s better off dead’ (79) by saying this Beatty illustrates herd mentality to control the people. He could not control Clarisse so he tells Montag she is better off dead in a way warning him to not start questioning things himself.
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