Transcript Fahrenheit 451 group project

☆ Fahrenheit 451 ☆
group project
Historical Approach
By : Alyssa Cortez, Graciela Chipres,
Claudia Garcia, Michaela Venegas,
Juan Vela
ISSUE #1
☆ “ It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to
see things blackened and changed. While the
books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away
on a wind turned dark with burning”.
Pages 7-9
☆ “ They fell like slaughtered birds and the woman
stood below like a small girl, among the bodies.
The books lay like mounds of fishes left to dry”.
Pages 39-43
Issue # 2
☆ A radio hummed somewhere. . . “War may be
declared any hour. This country stands ready to
defend its. . .”
Page 36
☆ “The first bomb struck.” “ The sound of its death
came after.” “ The concussion knocked the air
across and down the river, turned the men over
like dominos in a line, blew the water in lifting
sprays, and blew the dust and made trees above
them mourn with great wind passing away south.”
Pages 161-162
Issue # 3
☆ Beatty snorted. “Oh, no !” You weren’t fooled by
that little idiots routine, were you? Flowers,
butterflies, leaves, sunsets, oh hell ! It’s all in her
file.”
Page 115
☆ “Some poor fellow is out for a walk. A rarity. An
odd one. Don’t think the police don’t know the
habits of queer ducks like that, men who walk
mornings for the hell of it, or for reasons of
insomnia. Anyway, the police have had charted
for months, years.”