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Pop Q 1. what is a sieve 2. where does the firetruck show up at the end? A. Foils – thesis + antithesis = synthesis (103) B. Faber’s Manifesto quality leisure the right to carry out changes C. Novel/50s/Modern Chart newspapers dying screens bombs
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Pop Q 1. what is a sieve 2. where does the firetruck show up at the end? A. Foils – thesis + antithesis = synthesis (103) B. Faber’s Manifesto quality leisure the right to carry out changes C. Novel/50s/Modern Chart newspapers dying screens bombs Today – fixins, war (MADD), theme, sculptor, new utopia
Reading Check (Burning Bright pt. 1) Answer each question in a single, complete sentence. Each question is worth one point. • As the salamander arrives, who walks out of Guy Montag’s house? • What happens to Captain Beatty?
Reading Check (Burning Bright pt. 1) Answer each question in a single, complete sentence. Each question is worth one point. • As the salamander arrives, who walks out of Guy Montag’s house? • What happens to Captain Beatty?
Reading Check (Burning Bright pt. 2) Answer each question in a single, complete sentence. Each question is worth one point. • Where has Montag hidden “The Book of Ecclesiastes”? • What happens to Montag’s city?
Homework • Read and annotate “Happiness Is a Warm iPhone” by Charles Yu • Define the circled words as you read, then check your definitions before including them with your answers (2 points) Reading Responses: Please use textual evidence from the article and Fahrenheit 451 for each question. • How does this article connect to Mildred? (3 points) • How does this article connect to Faber’s manifesto? (3 points)
Reading Check (The Sieve and the Sand) Answer each question in a single, complete sentence. Each question is worth one point. • Faber is retired. What was his job? • Where does the fire truck stop at the end of Part Two?
Do Now: • What happened last class? • How can we connect the character bracket to Fahrenheit 451?
Faber’s Manifesto (with comments) • Manifesto – an argument of policy (how things should be/will be) • Plenty of problems in this world, but Faber knows what the society needs. • These changes will help people recognize the flaws in their systems of life NOTE: This is not Faber.
Faber: 1. Quality Example? • Things need texture – this world is too sterile! • “The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.” – 83 • Literature is confrontational • Confrontation is actually a GOOD thing! How do we know?
Faber: 2. Leisure • Not time off, but time to think! • Faber fears the screens and constant stimuli • Screens and stimulation dulling the mind • NOTE: Screens CAN offer the right type of thinking… they just don’t. Example?
Faber: 3. The right to carry out actions based on what we learn Example? • Books change us! Books teach us! We should start to incorporate these changes into our lives! • Montagembodies this principle • People don’t read anymore because they don’t realize that books can change people
Why does Faber have such influence on Montag? • Select three qualities to describe each character • They are almost complete opposites • Foils – opposite characters to highlight contrast! • Challenge one another to achieve new heights (note: “new” does not always mean good!)
This is some old school philosophy! Georg Hegel (19th c. German philosopher) and the dialectic • THESIS + ANTITHESIS = SYNTHESIS (argument) + (counterargument) = (new argument) • What do we see on pages 102-103?
What synthesis is created by our foils? Let’s figure it out! Due Tuesday – Hegelian Dialectic (8 points) Three paragraphs, use specific evidence from the text Who is Character A? (2) Who is Character B? (2) What synthesis is created? So what? (4)
Homework: Finish Section 2 In addition to reading “The Sieve and the Sand” you should also be able to answer the following questions: • What is a sieve? How does it relate to Montag? • Where does Montag go after he leaves Faber’s house? What happens there? • Where is Montag (physically) at the end of the section?
Remember: Science fiction critiques the present through the future
Remember: Science fiction critiques the present through the future
Remember: Science fiction critiques the present through the future
Symbols as foils! ? Salamander Phoenix
Mythically speaking… • The salamander has a (mythically) high tolerance for heat • The phoenix is consumed by its own flames and then reborn PASSIVE ACTIVE
We end up with the difference between passive and active creatures • Passive – to be a receiver • Active – to be a doer • The phoenix is the rebirth of society –the dystopia is gone and the utopia can begin • Let’s look at page 157-158—how does this portray an active life? • Are books active or passive?