Fahrenheit 451 Unit 2 Study Guide

“With the knife I had, I opened his chest to that place…. I inserted the knife point, and with great difficulty, at last i pulled it out”

The supporting quote is,“ If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body,” this quote are packed with a monumental amount of information. To briefly summarize, the quote illustrates the sinister atmosphere that overtook the chamber as he (the narrator) attempted to be as vigilant as feasible while concealing the dismantled corpse beneath the planks to a point where nobody would have the ability to unearth it. Further, specifically upon first fragment of the quote, the narrator apprises the reader that he camouflaged the body to an extent that even the he would not suspect a single inadequate implement of himself. Aside from the clarification of the quote, the quote itself is pinpointed at the crest of pg. 300, being the first sentence on the page and it is mentioned while the narrator is speaking to himself about the concealment of the corpse. In conclusion, this singular quote superbly provides you a intelligible interpretation of the terror this narrative is comprised of by, for instance saying, “the wise precaution I took for the concealment of the body,” which depicts the nefarious atmosphere that occupied the

really was, he was not crazy, his only fault was being incompetent to live amongst the wild.

“The wander chased the birds away with his cudgel and inspected the human remnants. Significant portions were missing. There was an arrow through the skull, protruding at the back of the neck. The old man looked nervously around at the brush. There was no one is sign, but there were plenty of footprints

Quote 1: "Here, in a word, - and it is a rare instance in my life, - I had met with a person thoroughly adapted to the situation which he held." Introductory, pg. 24

Background: this story takes place in a futuristic USA where the country is at the brink of war. Tensions between other countries are increasing and soldiers are being deployed to their stations. Although all of this is happening citizens of the US believe that the world will be short and quick and the soldiers will be back home within a week.

There are multiple testimonies from people who had constant contact with him, commenting on his state of mind. Someone who is ‘insane’ has a way of thinking that is declared illogical, leading to me thinking that the assassination is unjust.

"It was the first time in his life he had ever really worked…and that he had ever had anything to do which took all he had in him… (He) stood with the rest up in the gallery and watched the men on the killing beds, marveling at their speed and power…and never occurred to one to think of the flesh-and-blood side of it – that

Even during the time when the narrator was in the process of hiding the body, he does not find himself insane. The narrator speaks of how is was so cunning and intelligent enough to not get a spot of blood anywhere, of how he placed the boards of the floor precisely as they were before the murder.

The question of whether or not someone is insane comes up multiple times in Shakespeare's works. Hamlet, by William Shakespeare is a play about the life surrounding Hamlet and the royal family after the death of King Hamlet of Denmark. When King Hamlet died, Prince Hamlet returned from overseas grieving the loss of his beloved father. He returns only to be burdened with the news that Gertrude, his mother who seemed so in love with the late Hamlet, has remarried Claudius, Hamlet’s uncle and the late Hamlet’s brother. The news of the death and the marriage is so overwhelming for Hamlet that he develops some kind of mental issue.

Hi Rihana I totally agree with your point that you can have a mental disorder and yet not be insane. There is a stigma on people who struggle with mental disorders that they all must be insane but that is just not the case. It a shame that people with mental disorders not only have worry about how they feel about themselves, they have to worry about being stereotyped as insane and the reaction of other people as well. According to the National Alliance on Mental Health (2016) 1 in 5 adults experience a mental illness with in a given year. That makes mental illnesses fairly common which might be surprising to some people. When you realize how many people could potentially be suffering from a mental disorder it might be someone's feeling about

like he is to others in the play, so he has no reason to act insane.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time... When I was crazy, that's all I was. - Sylvia Plath

Crazy. Last time I checked just because someone has been diagnosed with a mental illness does not mean they are crazy. However as infuriated as I was with him, I realized that it was not his fault, but rather the result of the lack of education on mental health within our culture(s).

The word insane is a legal term. Because research has identified many different mental illnesses of varying severities, it is now too simplistic to describe a severely mentally ill person merely as insane. The federal law states that insanity is a fair defense if " at the time of the commission of the acts constituting the offense, the defendants as a result of sever mental disease or defect was unable to appreciate the nature and quality of the wrongfulness of his acts"(Knowles). The American