"Can you think of a movie adaptation that was better than the book? Is the movie version of Fahrenheit 451 better than the book? Give specific examples to support your opinion."


The only movie I've ever seen that did the book justice or even did better were the Lord of the Rings adaptations, which cut out a lot of useless detail, yet still made the events epically significant, developed intense action scenes, and at the same time retained a very viable and complex plot line.

I love the book Farenheit 451, so it would be hard to best it with a movie, although the movie does a very good job of representing the feelings that swirl around in the characters. However, it doesn't give an accurate enough portrayal of the setting, partly due to the technology available to film makers at the time the movie was made. It also can't illustrate the plot the way Bradbury did with his writing style.

The Road to Greatness

When Francis Bacon wrote, "All rising to great place is by a winding staire," I think he was referring to the repetition our lives all take, no matter which path we choose. Everything we do has a certain repetition to it. The same problems pop up over and over again, and each time we must overcome them as we did the last. Also, we all have setbacks, which can make us feel as if what we've accomplished has been undone. However, these setbacks are really just pauses. We stop to see ourselves in the same place as before, but we forget we have risen vertically. Even though we seem to be getting nowhere, we are still gaining ground, and not giving up through the repetitive failures and problems is what raises ourselves up to greatness.

A Day in the Life of a Teenager

Things move fast. They always move fast. They slow and then accelerate, as if their only goals were to throw consciousness spinning out the window to fly with time. There never seems to be enough time. It drips between fingers with apathy.
School, friends, homework, family, jobs, church?: they whisk by each day faster than the last. The students, children at heart, adults at mind, try to cope with the tidal wave of information and activity that is crammed into the prime years of human life. It can be overwhelming; it can strain the mind.
But it is not a problem. The speed, the mass, the senseless activity that accompanies teenage life is not negative. It is very positive; it trains and supports the teens for adulthood. And they enjoy it, for the most part, should they choose to. Their day, although fleeting in the scope of things, is wholly important in itself. They make it important, with the dramas and successes and relationships that they don’t realize yet are all just parts of life.
So they bring it all on. As much as they can handle, they take, because that is what makes those years the best of their lives. They are teenagers, and their names are “Busy.”

Utopia or Dystopia?

Will the future be better or worse?

Well, I guess that would depend on how far into the future you were asking. I believe in the second coming of Christ, so if the "future" refers to the times nearing the apocalypse, I believe that Satan will rule the world, God will be putting humanity through the trials he illustrated in Revelation, and that the post-apocalyptic era will be a literal heaven on earth. If the "future" refers to several hundred years or so from now(or at least enough to enact significant change in the world or the United States), I think humanity will be sliding down a steady moral incline, and that there will be a lot of oppression and disunity, with a lot of "peace" filling in the gaps.