1. Find a scene in Fahrenheit 451 that had characters who were afraid. It can be any scene, like the one where Montag and the other firemen burned the old lady’s books (like you did for yesterday’s assignment.
2. Take one of the characters in the scene and rewrite it (or something similar) from that person’s perspective. For example, if you go with the old lady I mentioned above you could start with something like, “I heard the wail of the fire engines and the screeching of the tires. My heart stopped like a dead weight because it could only mean one thing: They arrived! My books will be destroyed …..”
He brung it closer and closer until the point it was like staring at me face to face opend it and began to read all these terible words out of some book called "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold completley inturupting during my conversation about my third husband that has been sent off to war. Him reading that poem made me reveal supressed feelings and sensibilities.
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I really enjoyed reading this paragraph. I liked that you descrived the book that Montag was reading. My favorite sentence was the first one because you descrive the book very well. On your speeling grammar you should change me to my. I think that you should make it longer and maybe explain who is reading the book and why.
Chakia,
Upon first reading your paragraph I enjoyed a few of the words you used. But after I finished reading it, I thought that maybe you needed to extend it a little, use some more descriptive language! Don't be afraid to explore the writing world, I feel as though you could truly produce something talented!
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