Directions: Provide a 5-8 sentence response for each question.
1. Faber says, “The good writers touch life often. the mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones ---- her and leave her for the flies.” Are his thoughts about different quality of literature correct What do you think makes good literature What kind of writers don’t make literature at all? If it’s not literature, what is it?
2. “The firemen are rarely necessary because the public itself stopped reading of its own accord.”
Why were the firemen “necessary” in the first place? What has changed to make them unnecessary? Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Would Montag’s kind of firemen be needed today? Why or why not?