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 …..”
As i looked at him taking out those hideous looking books, i felt like my heart had stopped all of a sudden. How can he do this to me? i thought. I did not know how to react. All that i thought was what would my friends say. Would they turn me in and think that i'm the faulty one when they don't know the truth. As he talks all i'm thinking is that I had it with him I can't keep on faking that i love him when i don't and now i'm ready to turn him in. When i heard the sonorous voice of captain Beatty my whole world turned black. I wanted to fall into the earth's core so that nobody would ever find me. But instead i just tried to breath through my fear.
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this is really great! my favorite was the last line "i tried to breath through my fear" this was probably the best sentence out of anybodys paragraph and i REALLY think you should have shared that today rather than the other one (both were good but this was the best.)
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