Who here has read Fahrenheit 451?

[redsoxliberal]

does it mention somewhere about burial routines or forgetting the dead after they're gone specifically... I'm writing a paper on it and seem to remember this was there, but I have nod idea where to look, and would also like reassurance that I didn't make that whole part up.
THANKS!

[Book Lover]

1. I'll do a search

but I think you maybe have this confused with Soylent Green? I'll get back to you...

on edit: I found the relevant passage:


"You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can't have our minorities upset and stirred. Ask yourself, What do we want in this country, above all? People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these."

"Yes."

Montag could lip-read what Mildred was saying in the doorway. He tried not to look at her mouth, because then Beatty might turn and read what was there, too.

"Coloured people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Bum the book. Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag. Take your fight outside. Better yet, into the incinerator. Funerals are unhappy and pagan? Eliminate them, too. Five minutes after a person is dead he's on his way to the Big Flue, the Incinerators serviced by helicopters all over the country. Ten minutes after death a man's a speck of black dust. Let's not quibble over individuals with memoriams. Forget them. Burn them all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean."

[redsoxliberal]

2. thanks (m)

haven't read solyent green, so it wouldn't be that... I think it's something to do with people staying happy and remarrying but I completely forget where that is.

[BoX o BooX]

3. Spoiler Alert:

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE! IT'S PEOPLE!

[Book Lover]

8. Damnit!

What else are you going to ruin for me? Wait, wait, let me guess; you know who "Rosebud" is, right? Don't tell me!!!

[BoX o BooX]

9. Not a who, Binky:

ROSEBUD A SLED!
THE CHICK IN "THE CRYING GAME" HAS A COCK!
E.T. FINALLY GETS TO GO HOME! HE'S NOT REALLY DEAD!

[Book Lover]

10. That's it!

You are totally on Ignore forever! :nyah:

[redsoxliberal]

4. great! Thank you so much!!!

exactly what I was looking for!

:thumbsup:

[Reverend_Smitty]

5. I haven't read that book since high school...

I forgot how good it was, maybe I'll read it again over Christmas break. That passage was absolutely chilling!

[asjr]

7. It has been a long time since I read it. I enjoyed the movie

also. A really scary narrative.

[ruthg]

6. Great book....

And a noble attempt at filming it by Francois Truffaut... didn't quite make it but worthwhile watching anyhow.

I adored Ray Bradbury as a kid and ...hey, I still do!

[JohnKleeb]

11. I only saw the movie, that doesn't sound right

Are you hallucating stuff like I do?