Fahrenheit 451

Quotations

Part One

The Hearth and the Salamander

-Read the following quotes. Pick five quotes that interest or intrigue you.

-When responding to a quotation, copy the whole quote on your paper.

-Write at least a half of a page about the quote. Adjust the length as needed based on your handwriting size. If you need to brainstorm or cluster first, that’s fine. However, for this assignment we will only be grading your response in paragraph form. If you’re stuck, consider the following questions:

• Have you ever felt like this? When? Why? Do you still feel this way?
• Do you agree with the quote? Why? Why not? Why do people behave this way?
• Why did you pick this particular quote? Is there a word, a phrase, or an idea that really grabbed you? Tell us about it.
• How does this quote make you feel? You can discuss mood, tone, and imagery as in the book or in society today.

The responses we read should be revised writings. Please be sure spelling is correct. Read through your responses outloud. Do the sentences make sense?

Ten points for each writing assignment:

-Correct spelling/mechanics /grammar 5 points

Quotes

"I’m seventeen and I’m crazy. My uncle says the two always go together." P. 7

"I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is or flowers, because they never see them slowly." P. 9

"He wore his happiness like a mask." P. 12

"There are too many of us. There are billions of us and that’s too many. Nobody knows anyone." P. 16

"No one has time anymore for anyone else." P. 23

"I haven’t any friends. That’s supposed to prove I’m abnormal. But everyone I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one another." P. 30

"I’m afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way?" p.30

"I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they’re going." P. 30

"The people in those books never lived." P.38

"And suddenly she was so strange he couldn’t believe he knew her at all." P. 42

"And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper." P. 52

"Picture it. Nineteen-century man with his horses, dogs, carts, slow motion. Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests. Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, snap ending." P. 54