My Terrifying Dream - WED 1/30

So what happened was that I woke up. My dad told me that I had been sleeping for 30 years. I was astonished, and like anyone who had slept for 30 years I wanted to see what new buildings had been developed. So we went out side and got into the car. It was a car I've never seen before. He told me that he got it just 3 years ago. As we pulled out of the drive way I looked around and saw that there were funny looking cars like they would have in the future.

After driving around for awhile we decided to go walk around in the neighborhood, and as we were walking we heard two gun shots. It was coming out of a church that there were people running out of. Me and my dad ran to the other side of the street and watched.

Finally we saw who the shooter was. It was and old lady that was obviously really high on something. She was coming over to our side of the street where I was telling people that she was coming. In no time she was on our side. She looked at me, looked away, and shot the lady next to me. She then looked at me again. I was so afraid that I just broke out running and trying to dodge the bullets. As I was running she was chasing me still shooting.

I fell, I'm trying to get up before she gets to me but it was too late. She stood right over me and shot two individual shots, one in my arm and the other just to the left of my heart. I tried to get up, struggling to get up onto my knees. I get it but I fall right back down onto the ground. The police arrived minutes later. I could already feel it getting harder and harder to breath. There was nothing that the cops could do but sit there by my side and watch me slowly die a painful death. I thought that I was going to die from bleeding to death.

I was thinking of the fun things that my dad and I did. How I never really listen to what he had really had to say most of the time. I was regretting all of the arguments and all of the fights over school and wished that I didn't give him such a hard time.

I see them putting me into the ambulance and see everything went dark. I can barley feel the needles they were sticking in me that would usually hurt. I was realizing that the time had come, I was dying. My hearing was going away and I could fell my heart stop. I'm dead.

Waking up in bed I am crying. Thank God I'm Alive!!!!!

DUE, WEDNESDAY 1/30 Fahrenheit 451 pp. 154-165

What does it mean when Montag says "And when they ask us what we are doing, you can say, "We're remembering."?

I think that he is remembering what life was like before the war had begun. They also were remembering how society was, how it was always so peaceful; how nothing really went wrong. I think this is important because you sometimes need to realize what has happened in the past to know what desicions should be made in the future. That’s why it's a good quote, and that is why it is important in this book.

DUE TUESDAY, 1/29 Fahrenheit 451 pp. 138-154

Read Pages 138-154

How has Montag changed from the beginning of the novel to this part? In writing about this you might want to notice that the environment has changed from the city to nature. Is this a coincidence or is the author trying to say something by contrasting the city to nature in relation to the ways Montag has changed.

I think that he has changed in many ways. like in the beginning of the story he was a fireman that just burnt books. Now he's running from people who want to get him.

I think that he has also changed emotionally also in the beginning of the story he was happy and really was aware of things. Now he's just like this crazy psycho who burnt his boss and is now running. away from the people who want to kill him.

DUE Monday 1/29 Fahrenheit 451 pp. 126-137

Question: At page 39 at the top, why were they counting to ten?

Read pp. 126-137

Find a line from the story or a paragraph that you like and explain why you like it.

I chose when the author says "Montag ran. He could feel the hound, like autumn, come cold dry and swift, like a wind that didn't stir grass, that didn't jar windows or disturb leaf shadows on the white sidewalks as it passed."

I like how Ray chose an interesting way to tell how quietly and gracefully the hound was chased Montag. Its also interesting how he used metaphors like when he says "he could feel the hound, like autumn."

DUE Friday 1/29 Debunking Assignment - Flight 93

The Wreckage

Claim: Short summary in one or two sentences.

So what they are saying is that since there is no wreckage of flight 93 around the area of where people say that it crashed. They suspect that Flight 93 had been shot down by a heat seeking missile.

Fact: Short summary in one or two sentences.

They are saying that the reason why there is so little debris is because it hit the ground so fast that it broke-up into small pieces. They're comparing the plane crashing to an egg. " You can liken crash debris to an egg. At a low speed, dropped from your hand, the impact will crack the egg and you'll have large pieces of shell." However "if you take an egg and drop it from a 20 story building you will have small pieces of shell leftover.