Dover Beach

Mrs. Phelps could not stop crying on her way home from the Montag's. She thought about what the poem was about and how it really did affect her life, which brought her to the cold realization that she really wasn't happy with the life she was living. She didn't see it before, but her vision of love was entirely skewed. Who was the man who wrote the poem? Why didn't she have that kind of love in any of her marriages?

She got home, climbed the stairs to her bedroom, and shut the door slowly. She wondered when her husband would be home. Mrs. Phelps reached for the sleeping pills, so that maybe she could actually sleep through the night for once. Would she ever be able to feel the same type of love toward her husband as that poet did for his wife? Would Mr. Phelps ever return? A sadness overtook her as she downed one too many sleeping pills.

Mrs. Phelps woke up days later after a neighbor had reported her overdose. She never remembered a thing Mr. Montag read to her.

Fahrenheit 451

So far, I think the Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is really good. The setting of the story is actually very similar to the world we live in today, where a lot of things get dumbed down or shortened and we rely a lot on technology while not making a lot of time for family. I'm sure that the similarities between the book and our world will only grow as time goes on, which is kind of scary to think about.

Captain Beatty's lecture about how their world came to be that way was also really good, however;
it makes me wonder if Captain Beatty has some books of his own. He seems to know way too much about these books and can even quote them from memory; something I can't even do, even though I read. If Beatty actually has books, I wonder why he became a fireman in the first place and why he's going along with what the government tells everyone. He seems knowledgeable, so why isn't he trying to help?