-Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.
"Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jerseys are they wearing as they trot out on the field"
This is what Clarisse's uncle said during the conversation of family.
It is rather a sarcastic joke about how excessive reliance on machines resulted downfall of human value. This passage was very significant to me as it was describing our society right now. One man dies today, everyone forget about his existence the next day. One machine gets broken, everyone cries out of pure fear. This mere thought made me shudder. The development of machines made our life much easier than before, but at the same time, it disabled us. Now, people have lost the ability to do even the simplest of tasks.
This idea of human value downfall is mentioned in the book for several times.
When Mildred and her friends were chatting, Montag turns off the "family" on the wall.
They act uneasy and cry out of discomfort because of fake "families" were gone, while they do not care if their husband dies during the war.
This also include me, even though I am not that extreme. I feel indisposition if my computer is out of order or tv is dead.
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Hey Esther~!
I agree with you in some ways here. In the qoute it said, " Everyone using everyone else's coattails." I found this to be an interesting part of this passage. It is referring to people using other people to get themselves farther/higher in the sight of others. In this novel people rely so much on technology and this passage contridicts that in a way. To rely on someone else or use someone else is the opposite of relying or using a machine. This is just what I thought about when I read this passage. :P
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Rebecca
Yes, I believe nowadays, humans are begin to more rely on their machines and inventions such as cars or robots. It is quite dangerous if people's reliance on machines gets more serious becasue they are too convinient for people's lives so people tend to rely on them often, and face many unexpected problems when the machines are unavailable. In the future, many people would not able to step back to where they were and eventually forget right way to live. Clarisse's uncle wanted humans to remember their traditional truth and the real purpose.
Here you can also see the devastation that dependency on technology can bring. Mrs.Mc.
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