Litertary Letter #1
Title and Author- Witch & Wizard: The Gift by James Patterson
Genre: fiction
Number of pages read: 41
It starts out with Whit Allgood talking about what is happening in his and his sister Whisty’s life. He speaks of the New Order or N.O. which is the new government which he says is actually a“brutal totalitarian regime.” They see Wisty and Whit as criminals, because they “practice in the dark and foul arts—i.e., magic.” He then goes back to the beginning to tell how it all started. He goes on to talk about what’s happening in the present. He is in town looking for his sister when sees a flyer that says EXECUTION and he looks up at the giant screen and hears a booming voice say “Wisteria Allgood, do you wish to confess to the use of the dark arts for the wicked purpose of undermining all that is good and proper in our society.”He runs to the execution to see if it’s true. When he gets there he pushes his way through the crowd as The One gives the signal to hang her. Whit is devastated until he sees a fire girl tearing from the stage and into the crowd. Whit knew it was her. Once she de-flamed he grabbed her and started to run to get as far away from The One as he could get. Once they had stop Whit asked who was under the hood. Wisty said it was Margo. While they were running they were spotted by a N.O. officer who was about to get the attention of all the officers but was attacked by some old woman. She gave Wisty a map and told her to follow it. The map led them to a portal that sent them to a safe vacant part of town. There they found a bunch of kids hiding in buildings. They decided to take them with them to the department store. As there entering the store they see Jenine rounding up the stray kids. Once they were all inside with the rest of the free landers Wisty and Whit explained what happen.
One passage that was interesting to me was the first and second paragraph on page 14. It interests me because you can really feel Wisty’s fury. She starts off by saying “I’m gonna burn everything and everyone around me. Burn it all down.” Then she goes on to say what she’s going to burn first, “I’ll start with the death-drenched stage, move on to this ridiculously pompous plaza, then hit the cold city of stone—this disastrous nightmare of a world.” She ends by saying
“Even if I fry myself to ash in the process, I am going to obliterate all of this, all of them.”
If I could be any character in the book I would want to be Wisty. I would want to be her because she is strong. She seems like she knows what she wants and isn’t going to stop until she gets it. Also it seems like she can take charge as a leader to help make a plan and get everyone on board. This is why I would want to be Wisty.
Genre: fiction
Number of pages read: 41
It starts out with Whit Allgood talking about what is happening in his and his sister Whisty’s life. He speaks of the New Order or N.O. which is the new government which he says is actually a“brutal totalitarian regime.” They see Wisty and Whit as criminals, because they “practice in the dark and foul arts—i.e., magic.” He then goes back to the beginning to tell how it all started. He goes on to talk about what’s happening in the present. He is in town looking for his sister when sees a flyer that says EXECUTION and he looks up at the giant screen and hears a booming voice say “Wisteria Allgood, do you wish to confess to the use of the dark arts for the wicked purpose of undermining all that is good and proper in our society.”He runs to the execution to see if it’s true. When he gets there he pushes his way through the crowd as The One gives the signal to hang her. Whit is devastated until he sees a fire girl tearing from the stage and into the crowd. Whit knew it was her. Once she de-flamed he grabbed her and started to run to get as far away from The One as he could get. Once they had stop Whit asked who was under the hood. Wisty said it was Margo. While they were running they were spotted by a N.O. officer who was about to get the attention of all the officers but was attacked by some old woman. She gave Wisty a map and told her to follow it. The map led them to a portal that sent them to a safe vacant part of town. There they found a bunch of kids hiding in buildings. They decided to take them with them to the department store. As there entering the store they see Jenine rounding up the stray kids. Once they were all inside with the rest of the free landers Wisty and Whit explained what happen.
One passage that was interesting to me was the first and second paragraph on page 14. It interests me because you can really feel Wisty’s fury. She starts off by saying “I’m gonna burn everything and everyone around me. Burn it all down.” Then she goes on to say what she’s going to burn first, “I’ll start with the death-drenched stage, move on to this ridiculously pompous plaza, then hit the cold city of stone—this disastrous nightmare of a world.” She ends by saying
“Even if I fry myself to ash in the process, I am going to obliterate all of this, all of them.”
If I could be any character in the book I would want to be Wisty. I would want to be her because she is strong. She seems like she knows what she wants and isn’t going to stop until she gets it. Also it seems like she can take charge as a leader to help make a plan and get everyone on board. This is why I would want to be Wisty.
Character Study: Guy Montag 3/5/13
The Growth of Guy Montag
Guy Montag is the main character in the book Fahrenheit
451 by Ray Bradbury. Montag
was a firefighter that burned books and the homes of people that owned
them. He did his job and believed
what he was told. At the beginning
of the book, he accepted everything about his life without question, but he was
not happy and began to question everything in his life.
In the middle of the book, he searched for answers to his questions about
his life as well as the law about burning books.
Finally, by the end of the book, he ran away from his life and started a
new one with books and knowledge.
Guy Montag went from a man who was a firefighter that burned books to a
man who lost everything to protect them.
In the first section of the book, Montag did his job well and even
enjoyed burning books. On the first page it says, “It was a pleasure to
burn. It was a special pleasure to
see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.”
Montag burned the books and never questioned it.
He knew it was illegal to read and own books but, he didn’t know
why. He had been secretly stealing
some books that he was supposed to burn and hiding them in his house, but never
read them. Then one day, he watched an old lady burn in her home with her
books. This made him physically
sick. He began to question what
was in books and on page 48 he said, “There must be something in books, things
we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be
something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” He wanted to talk about it with
his wife, but she couldn’t care less about the woman or books. Montag
realized he was doing a job that he didn’t like and married to a woman he barely
knew.
In the middle section of the book, Montag searched for answers to his
questions. He needed to know what
was written in books and why he previously accepted everything that he was
told. He began by reading the
books he had hidden away, but he could not understand them.
He had to find a teacher to help him. He remembered meeting an English
professor named Faber and asked him for help. Montag said to Faber on page 78, “Nobody
listens anymore. I can’t talk to the walls because they are yelling at me. I can’t talk to my wife because she
listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe
if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense. And, I want you to teach me to
understand what I read.” Faber
agreed to help Montag understand why books were so important and why things
changed. They agreed to keep the word alive by secretly printing books and
teaching the words. Faber gave
Montag an earpiece that would help them communicate when apart. Faber could read
and teach while Montag listened.
Montag was worried because he had to go back to work as a fireman and his
Captain was a smart, clever man who could convince him to go back to his old
ways. And Captain Beatty, who knew
Montag had hidden books and had doubts, tried his best to bring Montag back in
line. Beatty said, on page 104,
“What traitors books can be! You think they are backing you up, and they turn on
you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the
moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.”
Thankfully, Faber was listening and helped Montag understand the truth,
that the “Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the
terrible tyranny of the majority.”
Montag knew Faber’s words were the answers he
needed.
By the last section of the book, Montag realized that he could never go
back to a life without books.
Unfortunately, Captain Beatty also knew that.
While Montag was at work, his wife and her friends had called an alarm on
him and his books. The Captain
drove the Salamander to Montag’s house and told him to burn everything himself
and then on page 107, “when you are quite finished,” said Beatty from behind
him, “you are under arrest.”
Montag did it. He burned
everything and Faber heard everything through his earpiece.
Unfortunately, Beatty realized that Montag had and earpiece and
threatened to find and destroy Montag’s partner.
This enraged Montag and he did the unthinkable.
He burned Beatty and ran with the four books he had left.
Montag was a fugitive. When
he made it to Faber’s house, Faber said, “You did what you had to do. It has been coming a long time.” Montag knew it he was right and on page
125, he said, “I could feel it for a long time, I was saving something up, I
went around doing one thing and feeling another.”
Faber then told him to head to the river and the old railroad
tracks. There he could find old
Harvard professors who were also on the run. Montag ran and met the other fugitives
along the river. They were warming
themselves by a fire and Montag thought it looked strange.
He didn’t know fire could do that and, on page 139, “He had never thought
in his life that fire could give as well as take.” That
night, by the fire, Granger (one of the other fugitives) explained their plan on
page 146, “We’ll pass the books on to our children, by word of mouth, and let
our children wait in turn, on the other people. A lot will be lost that way, of
course. But you can’t make people listen.
They have to come around in their own time, wondering what happened and
why the world blew up under them.”
Montag knew he would stay with them and do the same.
He would commit books to memory and pass on the knowledge to those people
who would listen.
Guy Montag was a character that completely changed throughout the
book. He went from a man that
followed what other people did and said to a man who questioned their actions
and his own. He needed to find
answers to his questions even though it meant reading books which was
illegal. He chose to leave his
life where he never questioned anything to find a life full of learning and
books. Guy Montag went from being
part of the clueless majority to being part of the enlightened minority.
Guy Montag is the main character in the book Fahrenheit
451 by Ray Bradbury. Montag
was a firefighter that burned books and the homes of people that owned
them. He did his job and believed
what he was told. At the beginning
of the book, he accepted everything about his life without question, but he was
not happy and began to question everything in his life.
In the middle of the book, he searched for answers to his questions about
his life as well as the law about burning books.
Finally, by the end of the book, he ran away from his life and started a
new one with books and knowledge.
Guy Montag went from a man who was a firefighter that burned books to a
man who lost everything to protect them.
In the first section of the book, Montag did his job well and even
enjoyed burning books. On the first page it says, “It was a pleasure to
burn. It was a special pleasure to
see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.”
Montag burned the books and never questioned it.
He knew it was illegal to read and own books but, he didn’t know
why. He had been secretly stealing
some books that he was supposed to burn and hiding them in his house, but never
read them. Then one day, he watched an old lady burn in her home with her
books. This made him physically
sick. He began to question what
was in books and on page 48 he said, “There must be something in books, things
we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be
something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” He wanted to talk about it with
his wife, but she couldn’t care less about the woman or books. Montag
realized he was doing a job that he didn’t like and married to a woman he barely
knew.
In the middle section of the book, Montag searched for answers to his
questions. He needed to know what
was written in books and why he previously accepted everything that he was
told. He began by reading the
books he had hidden away, but he could not understand them.
He had to find a teacher to help him. He remembered meeting an English
professor named Faber and asked him for help. Montag said to Faber on page 78, “Nobody
listens anymore. I can’t talk to the walls because they are yelling at me. I can’t talk to my wife because she
listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe
if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense. And, I want you to teach me to
understand what I read.” Faber
agreed to help Montag understand why books were so important and why things
changed. They agreed to keep the word alive by secretly printing books and
teaching the words. Faber gave
Montag an earpiece that would help them communicate when apart. Faber could read
and teach while Montag listened.
Montag was worried because he had to go back to work as a fireman and his
Captain was a smart, clever man who could convince him to go back to his old
ways. And Captain Beatty, who knew
Montag had hidden books and had doubts, tried his best to bring Montag back in
line. Beatty said, on page 104,
“What traitors books can be! You think they are backing you up, and they turn on
you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the
moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.”
Thankfully, Faber was listening and helped Montag understand the truth,
that the “Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the
terrible tyranny of the majority.”
Montag knew Faber’s words were the answers he
needed.
By the last section of the book, Montag realized that he could never go
back to a life without books.
Unfortunately, Captain Beatty also knew that.
While Montag was at work, his wife and her friends had called an alarm on
him and his books. The Captain
drove the Salamander to Montag’s house and told him to burn everything himself
and then on page 107, “when you are quite finished,” said Beatty from behind
him, “you are under arrest.”
Montag did it. He burned
everything and Faber heard everything through his earpiece.
Unfortunately, Beatty realized that Montag had and earpiece and
threatened to find and destroy Montag’s partner.
This enraged Montag and he did the unthinkable.
He burned Beatty and ran with the four books he had left.
Montag was a fugitive. When
he made it to Faber’s house, Faber said, “You did what you had to do. It has been coming a long time.” Montag knew it he was right and on page
125, he said, “I could feel it for a long time, I was saving something up, I
went around doing one thing and feeling another.”
Faber then told him to head to the river and the old railroad
tracks. There he could find old
Harvard professors who were also on the run. Montag ran and met the other fugitives
along the river. They were warming
themselves by a fire and Montag thought it looked strange.
He didn’t know fire could do that and, on page 139, “He had never thought
in his life that fire could give as well as take.” That
night, by the fire, Granger (one of the other fugitives) explained their plan on
page 146, “We’ll pass the books on to our children, by word of mouth, and let
our children wait in turn, on the other people. A lot will be lost that way, of
course. But you can’t make people listen.
They have to come around in their own time, wondering what happened and
why the world blew up under them.”
Montag knew he would stay with them and do the same.
He would commit books to memory and pass on the knowledge to those people
who would listen.
Guy Montag was a character that completely changed throughout the
book. He went from a man that
followed what other people did and said to a man who questioned their actions
and his own. He needed to find
answers to his questions even though it meant reading books which was
illegal. He chose to leave his
life where he never questioned anything to find a life full of learning and
books. Guy Montag went from being
part of the clueless majority to being part of the enlightened minority.