Blogging as we read Fahrenheit 451

Blogging as we read Fahrenheit 451
As we continue reading Bradbury's scifi novel, keep on blogging about the novel and connections with other novels, such as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Phillip Dick), Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card), and I, Robot (Isaac Asimov).

Some sample connections follow:
1. What is the role of the child in Ender's Game and Fahrenheit 451? How do children function to question the old order that no adults ever question? What does that say about how much society needs innocent, young voices?
2. How to start reading a scifi novel: with examples from Ender's Game, Fahrenheit 451, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Give examples of how authors make readers feel like outsiders at first (with words like "toon") and eventually let us immerse ourselves in this futuristic world. Some liken it to solving a puzzle (CH).
3. Look at this blogpost by CH that makes connections between three novels about how empathy plays a role:
   Even though Guy's job is to burn and destroy books, he feels empathy tho wards the books. Bradbury's novel parallels with Philip Dick's novel because both the main characters feel empathy towards the objects they have to destroy, and one person is the cause of their sudden realization of their empathy. For Guy, Clarisse's outside-of-the-box thinking, makes him wonder about his routine life, and makes him second guess the decisions he has made thus far. For Rick Deckard, the same happens but with Rachael Rosen. In Ender's Game, Ender realizes he has empathy for the buggers after he has unknowingly destroyed them. It is strange how the story line of different sci-fi novels overlap in some ways.
4. Look at this blogpost by NC that involves children questioning "common" knowledge:
    As we continue to read Fahrenheit 451, we see the development of Guy Montag through his daily interactions with Clarisse, his seventeen year old neighbor. During his times with her, he develops a nature of questioning what he thought he knew. This seems to parallel Ender in "Ender's Game" because he begins to question what he is being taught and his knowledge. The common theme I can see is questioning of "common" knowledge.
5. Look at this blogpost by RA:

In Ender's Game, the children are trained to become the best soldiers or commanders that have ever existed. Most of the children have an abnormal childhood and live by very strict military guidelines. There unreasonably is no freedom, except for during breaks and command choices during battle. Similarly, in Fahrenheit 451 people are not allowed to do the majority of the things they would like to do. For example, people can not even perform basic activities like reading about topics or book genres that interest them. The children in Fahrenheit 451 are represented as the spark of a possible revolution in an abnormal society. The girl that Montag meets causes him to realize his true emotions and really question the reasons for why their society is the way it is.