The book is Fahrenheit 451

"Books say nothing! Nothing you can teach or believe" (Bradbury 62).

1. Restate and clarify the idea Beatty's quotation expresses— put it in your own words.

2. Explain how Beatty's statement is BOTH correct and incorrect.

3. Defend your ideas above: Provide and explain one piece of concrete, modern evidence from the
REAL world showing when Beatty's statement is correct. Then provide and explain one piece of
concrete, modern evidence from the REAL world showing when Beatty's statement is incorrect.

Correct:

Incorrect:

Read the following passage: he roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step. the pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue— but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. the once occasional huskiness of his tone was heard no more; and a tremulous quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance. there were times, indeed, when i thought his unceasingly agitated mind was laboring with some oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the necessary courage. which of the above ideas might be considered foreshadowing? he is wandering all over the chamber his skin tone is really pale his voice is quivering the narrator thinks he is laboring with an oppressive secret