Blog Post #3

Engaging with difficult, uncomfortable thoughts and experiences is the only route to true happiness. Lydia Meredith, Lindsey Learned, Alex Gao, Natalee Jobert, Mariana Vinseiro: Bell 7 Timeline of the Development of Theme: Montag Montag Montag’s house Granger tells The group meets witnesses a is burned due Montag his leaves to Clarisse woman die to the books plan for society rebuild society Montag and Montag begins Montag meets Montag and the Mildred grow to secretly read Granger and a men watch the distant group of men city blow up Three Quotes: Beginning: Montag’s unhappy Middle: Montag engages in difficult thoughts End: Montag is more happy Montag is living in a society full of censorship, hardship, and tragedy. Montag doesn’t question society and enjoys his job to burn houses. When a girl name Clarisse questions his marriage, job and life in general he realizes he’s unhappy. We chose this quote to show how Clarisse had effected Montag, and how Montag wasn’t happy. Montag begins to question society and wants to change the rules regarding books. Montag doesn’t wants to be a fireman and doesn’t want to burn books. This is an example of Montag beginning to go against society. This is the main conflict throughout the book. We chose this quote to show how Montag is beginning to think that books are important and he wants other people to know. Montag joins a group of men who enjoy reading and want to change society. Montag and the group watch the destruction of the city. They plan to memorize books and eventually when society is rebuilt they will rewrite the books. We chose this quote because it shows how Montag is doing better and is already beginning to move on from the evil society. “He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.” (Bradbury 9) “This afternoon I thought that if it turned out that books were worthwhile, we might get a press and print some extra copies” (Bradbury 81) “Perhaps later in the morning, when the sun was up and had warmed them they would begin to talk, or just say things they remembered, to be sure they were there, to be absolutely certain things were safe in them.”(Bradbury 157) The Theme is important to understanding the story because the theme shows how Montage has been able to change from being sad to happy by going against society. It is important to understand the theme because it shows that you need to confront your fears/concerns in order to be happy.

About the Author: Janet Evanovich

Janet Evanovich, the author of the current novel I'm reading, titled "One for the Money". This is the first book in the Stephanie Plum series. Janet Evanovich (formally Janet Schneider) was born on April 22nd, 1943. Her Stephanie Plum novels are her most best selling novers, and have made it on the New York Times and also the Amazon bestseller lists. She was also the first in her family to attend college; where she decided to attend Douglass College. When she first started her career, she went straight into writing romance novels, where she went under the pseudonym "Steffie Hall". Her first Stephanie Plum novel "One for the Money" was released as a movie starring Katherine Heigl in January 2012. Janet has 2 kids, a son and a daughter. They are both grown and work at their mother's business- "Evanovich, Inc.". Her daughter work the web and the technological sites, while her son works the financial side of the business. Her online business consists of contact information as well as fan merchandise, ranging from hats and t-shirts to survival packs created from and based on her Stephanie Plum novels. Her fanbase is focused on her most popular Stephanie Plum novels, which are myterey genre novels, about Plum going from a small town lingerie seller to a bounty hunter when she reaches rock bottom. Despite her lack of money, she meets many amazing and helpful people along the way, including the target of her occupation- Joe Morelli. Joe was her neighbor growing up, and was also the danger of the neighborhood: adults always telling Stephanie to stay away from him, and never get one-to-one with him. Yet Stephanie was very curious as to why every adult would tell her to stay away from Morelli. She had a few incidents where her curiosity got the best of her and he took advantage of her, and also periodically screwed up her life while permanently altering her perspective of society. Now, as a bounty hunter, she is more determined than ever to get her revenge on Morelli. "One for the Money" pdf (Chapter 1)- www.evanovich.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/01Chapter1.pdf Evanovich, Inc.- www.evanovich.com One of Evanovich's Interviews- http://www.cbsnews.com/news/janet-evanovich-talks-the-heist-teaming-up-with-tv-writer-lee-goldberg/