F451 and Me

This book so far has shown various connections my life and the world around me:

1. The book has predicted in some way the use of technology today. Televisions, parlor walls in this book, were created and allow people to stay inside causing less interactions with others. I've definitely had experiences where I'd rather stay inside and watch TV than go out with my friends. Seashell Radios are today's headphones or earbuds. In the story, Mildred uses them to help her sleep. I'm always have my earbuds on listening to music. When I'm feeling anxious before sleeping, music helps me fall asleep.

2. Honestly, I can relate to Guy Montag. I relate through the questionable happiness. Some days I'm totally fine and happy, nothing bad on my mind. Others, I'm so down and depressed. One of the worst things I've experienced is definitely faking a smile and happiness. I was so sure I was content with my life so far until things happen I began to realize I'm not.

3. This book is based around burning books. The title "Fahrenheit 451" is the temperature at which books burn. In the book, reading, books, basically knowledge is not 'permitted'. Some sort of connection to modern America is that the amount of people who enjoy books and reading has definitely decreased. Technology has been a huge factor in this. Technology drives people away from the nature of reading and book knowledge. 

F451 Summary Part 1

           So far in the book we have learned various things. First of all, we learned who some of our characters were: Guy Montag, Clarisse, and Mildred. They are all distinctive from each other. Montag is a firefighter, who is married to Mildred. Clarisse is a person who is happy and has a good relationship with her family. We also learned that the title of this book " Fahrenheit 451" is the temperature at which book burns and that is Montag's job.
             Montag is a firefighter who, job is to burn books, but he is a depressed man who thinks he is happy until Clarisse comes along and questions him. She asks him "Are you happy?" That's when he begins to question himself and his happiness. Through Clarisse we learn that her family actually talks to each other which was not usual in their society. Our now called televisions are called parlor walls in their society which take away their ability to talk basically.
             After their encounter, Montag returns home to fin his wife, Mildred, unresponsive because she has overdosed on sleeping pills. She has Seashell Radios in her ears which are headphones that help her fall asleep. From this scenario we learn that overdosing in their society is quite frequent and an ordinary thing that happens. There's machines that were created to 'fix' this problem in such little time. This incident with his wife causes Montag to realize that he doesn't know anything about his wife. He only know how interested she is in her "family" which is the images on her TV.

A Story of My Life

September 6. I had just gotten home from school and went to bed for my daily after school  nap. I got woken up by sharp pains in my abdomen. At first, I paid no attention to it and told myself the pain would go away. I went downstairs, said hello to my mom, and to get some food. At this point, the pain was no regular pain. It would go away and come back but it was really painful. I rushed to the restroom because I felt like letting everything out orally. But nothing happened it was just excruciating pain. I finally decided to let my mom know what I was feeling. As my mother she quickly made me tea, gave me medicine, called my aunt for remedies, and other stuff. But the pain was still there. The pain was horrible, breaking me into tears and frustration because I didn’t know what was happening. After 4 hours, I was rushed to the hospital. The pain I was feeling was making me lose a sense of everything. With tears running down my face, I was finally admitted into the emergency room. They asked questions, but I couldn’t answer because I was in pain. The nurse did and said “ You’re either pregnant or you have appendicitis.” I quickly responded with a face of fear and tears. I was scared for either one, even though one was not likely. So many thoughts rushed through my head. The main was not good as it was my biggest fear. Dying. I thought “If it is appendicitis, that means surgery, but what if something goes wrong. What if my body gives up?” I was so scared and after getting medication to calm me down, I forgot everything about going into surgery. The doctor came back with the results and in fact it was appendicitis. I was moved upstairs into a bigger room which kind of triggering my fear even more. I hated it. I spent a total of 21 hours with tears down my face and excruciating pain. I prayed as I went into surgery because I was a nervous wreck. I didn’t know what it felt like, I had never been through that. There was no words to described what I felt going into the operating room. Long story short, my surgery went great, but little did I know my mind wasn’t going to be good. I spent about 4-5 days in observation and it was the worst days of my life so far. I felt enclosed with needles in my arms, tubes up my stomach, 3 sets of stitches, and continuous pain. I know people have much more worst things going on in their lives, but this was mine at the moment and it was not fun for me. Things that are unexpected are crazy and can definitely change your life quickly. For me, the unexpected brought the unexpected. My unexpected surgery brought so many unexpected mental feelings and emotions.

My Author, My Hero

Rupi Kaur is a poet. She writes my favorite type of literature, poems. She inspires me with her powerful words. She got her fame from her instgram in 2015 because she was a young controversial voice of feminism. In a couple of years she has published two best selling poetry books. “Milk & Honey” and “The Sun and Her Flowers”.  She is from the Indian race and it’s not common seeing a woman of race speaking up at such a young age. Her poems are powerful to me. I can relate so much and I can tell she pours her heart and soul into making these poems as good as possible. Her short yet very raw poems cover so many different topics from abuse, immigration, depression, relationships, hardships of both men and women. She’s inspired to one day hopefully write a poetry book of my own. It’s one of my goals but it seems unrealistic to me because I think no one will read. She showed me that it’s possible because she has 2 best selling books in 3 years at 24. Her personality and her voice inspire me to be a better person. Through her words on paper she has showed me that hard things will happen in life but you can’t give up because of that. You can accomplish anything if you get through a rough time.

In Thoreau’s Words

“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”
The world, your life, is going to be what you make it. You decide what happens and where your life goes. The decisions you make lead you to where you want to go or want to be. Nothing can stop you from doing so. The world is here to make it whatever you want it to be. 


“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
This relates to the quote above. Do what YOU want to do. Don’t let anybody get in the way and especially don’t be influenced by society. Be confident in what you want to do in your life and the dreams you want to achieve. 


“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.“
When you’re at place when you don’t know what is going with your life you get lost. Your mind and thoughts are all over the place. It takes getting lost within one’s self to find and understand ourselves. It’s like a sogn from out mind or conscience is trying to tell us something. There’s definitely something there and if you listen you’ll find yourself.

On Self-Reliance Essay

               Ralph Emerson created the essay “On Self-Reliance” to show us how society affects our individualism. His title demonstrates what goes on with ourselves and what we do to rely on ourselves. On self-reliance defines his theme and purpose. His theme/purpose is to let an individual know that doing what society wants you to do is not the way you’re going to grow as a person. You have to avoid what society is wanting you to do and do what you think is right. As a person you have the ability to think and decide for yourself, so why should you use anybody else’s ability on yourself.
              Emerson’s main idea was supported by his tone. His tone is very persuading and you can tell it’s something he really wants us to know and understand. Emerson said, "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events." His choice of words reflects to his message and tone of the story. Ralph Emerson uses diction to persuade the people into believing in themselves. Various times in the story he uses allusions. "Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." All these figures were "leaders" which were great. He is saying that when you're great, you're often misunderstood. People are always willing to comply with society because what they observe of those other individuals and they want to follow them.
                I would use Emerson's idea and apply to my own life. I would apply this to the fact that people are trying to decide what I should study, as I get older. As of right now, I have no idea what I want to be. Recently, I've seen people having fun in there jobs and enjoying it. So I think to myself "maybe if I do that I'll be happy too." People are constantly putting thoughts in my head as to what I should do with my life. Society really affects the way you think and the decisions you make. If someone tell you you can't do something, you won't do it because they said something bad will happen. But what if you did do it and it was the best decision you've ever made and it leads to so many good things. Regret. Society affects you and makes you regret, sometimes. I have to find and know what is right for me. I have to find a 'passion', as cliche as that sounds, and use that to determine MY future for myself. The people around me are not going to determine what I do for the rest of my life. I have to be my own person.

Vocabulary #1

meme- a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc., that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by Internet users
virus-a piece of code that is capable of copying itself and typically has a detrimental effect, such as corrupting the system or destroying data.
viral-an image, video, advertisement, etc., that is circulated rapidly on the Internet.
blog-a regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style.
wiki-a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users.

URL-the address of a World Wide Web page
website-a location connected to the Internet that maintains one or more pages on the World Wide Web.
www- stands for world wide web 

Internet-a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols
2.0-used to denote a superior or more advanced version of an original concept, product, service, etc

open source- denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified