Fahrenheit 451

1/12/13

Author's Note: In this writing prompt on Fahrenheit 451, I wanted to write about fear being put on Montag. His whole fire crew is telling him to do something through fear. In this prompt I wanted to work on my sentence fluency. I need to make my sentences vary when I write them.  

Montag walks with his fire crew up the steps to a house. A house that had one light on with one women inside.  As they barge through the door she was sitting there. On the chair right in front of them, in her hand a book. They then burned her  with the rest of her home. As they leave, Montag looks back thinking about what he did. He finally turned around and walked back to the truck, book hidden beneath him. Montag thought of how much fear he was in, and how much fear was being put on him. 

Fear is always being put on Montag and his family. For example, Mildred is afraid of almost everything that she does.  Whereas Montag keeps a different definition of fear with him. His fire crew on work doesn't motivate them through happy words, they do it with fear. Almost threatening him to do something that he doesn't want to do. When Montag would burn houses, it wasn't something that he was proud of. It was his job that he had to obey. 

Fear is truly being put on Montag. Although, all he has to work towards is following people with hope. Those people would be motivating you to do the good and not the bad. They wouldn't try to scare you to do a task. The lesson for Montag is that you should never follow someone who scares you. Follow someone who believes that you can do the impossible. 

 1/1/13
Author's Note: This is my first writing prompt for the book Fahrenheit 451. I wanted to explain how Clarisse and Mildred were alike, and not alike in the book. They both have very different personalities to talk about, so I wanted to explain what they are like. Also, In this prompt I wanted to work on my introduction. Making sure that it first of all makes sense, where it also is a fictional narrative that goes with the rest of the piece.

I am walking through the streets of the city, searching for different places to make fire. I meet different women on the way back to my home that are more beautiful than the night sky. I have a wife, yes, but she doesn't except me for me. But then, I meet a girl that I knew I wanted to be with. She made my heart melt into a puddle in my body, but I knew I couldn't love her. So I walk to my home, where I find my wife laying on the ground where she then tried to kill herself, and I had no idea why. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, so many people are different in their own ways. Like Clarisse McClellan and Mildred, Montag's wife.

Clarisse and Mildred are two very different women. Yet, they are the same in a few ways. For example, they both like Montag. Even though Clarisse wasn't truly in love with him, she still accepted what he did and understood everything better than his wife. He may have started fires instead of putting them out, but she still listened and never interrupted. Whereas Mildred was Montag's wife, so, she was in love with Montag no matter what happened. Well, that's what he thought.

Clarisse and Mildred may be the same in a few ways, although they are still different when it comes to their personalities. For example, Mildred tried to kill herself. That just explains that she doesn't love who she is. Where Clarisse is a women who loves herself and doesn't care what people think. She helps people when they are having a hard time, and understands problems that people have.

In this book, Mildred and Clarisse are two very different women. Although, they are unique in their own ways. Yes, it's crazy that Mildred would try to kill herself, but she has to learn to fight through the pain that she was in before. So even though the two girls have their differences and their similarities, they still work out the problems that they have. And when they do, they are special in their own way.