Fahrenheit 451 pp. 3-21

1) Ask a question that you have about what's going on in the novel. What do you find confusing?

I really don’t get this story that much, even though it’s a good book. I feel some words are really descriptive and tell a lot of things. But on the other hand you have those events that occurred in pages 3-21, that you wouldn’t imagine happening in our lifetime. Which makes me kind of wonder, what is really going on.

2) Even before Montag and his wife Mildred talk to one another we know that they are alienated (distant) from one another. How does the author convey this?

I think that the author gets his point across to the readers, in an unusual way. In my opinion he is trying to state facts about the wife overdosing herself on sleeping pills, to kill herself. I believe the reason for taking the pills was because she was depressed and not happy with her lifestyle or the people involved in it. Another way was when the author described Montag coming home from a so called “night run” and that he comes home to a blank room, which made it seem like there was no connection between each others long distance relationship.