Book club discussion part 2 Directions Discuss questions with your group and respond to each question in 56 sentences Be prepared to discuss as a whole class One suicide and one nearsuicide occur in this book One woman who shuns books but loves TV and driving fast in her car anestheti ID: 932805
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Fahrenheit 451
AMS 8 – QUARTER 1
Slide2Book club discussion – part 2
Directions: Discuss questions with your group and respond to each question in 5-6 sentences. Be prepared to discuss as a whole class.
One suicide and one near-suicide occur in this book. One woman, who shuns books but loves TV and driving fast in her car, anesthetizes herself,; "We get these cases nine or ten a night," says the medical technician. Another woman, who cherishes her books, sets herself on fire with them; "These fanatics always try suicide," says the fire captain. Why would two people who seem to be so different from each other try to take their own lives? Why does suicide happen so frequently in Montag's society?"
Beatty
tells Montag that firemen are "custodians of peace of mind" and that they stand against "those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought." How well are the firemen accomplishing these objectives? Are conflicting ideas the only source of unhappiness in their society? What other sources might there be? Can conflicting ideas exist even without books that have been destroyed and outlawed
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Predict the ending of Fahrenheit 451. Explain why you think this will be the ending based on what we have read so far in Part 1 and 2.