The Burning Question Essays

The Burning Question Event took place at the DUC Theater in UWSP. In front, there is a stand for the moderator and next to it there are six chairs for the six panels that are going to share their personal experience of diversity. This event is about diversity and lets the audiences asked questions that they concern about diversity. The event introduction starts with the moderator giving a brief speech of what the event is going to be about, why they have this event and diversity that happens in UWSP

1. What is Jim Crow? Please explain and provide specific examples from class discussions and the film Mississippi Burning. Whites have always been superior to Blacks. The whites feared mixing of the race which is the Mongrel Race; because they were afraid the white race would be diluted. So, they did everything keep blacks at the bottom. The Southern states reacted by creating and enforcing Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow was a system created as a segregation of colored people and white people, but

Loving Your Ground Growing up, I was always the odd one out. With my almond eyes and olive skin, I was an alien compared to the rest of my family with their blue eyes and dirty blonde hair. Although I would always tell myself that I am no different than everyone else, I was and I knew it. As I got older, I constantly denied myself from accepting who I really was which caused so much doubt and distress, even anger. More confused than ever, I turned to God, my friends and my family to help me on

it does not appear to be genuine. This shows he had also blindly thought that his domestic life had valued to him initially without putting in any deep consideration if it was worth the value. (SIP-B) He also blindly follows society’s rules about burning books so he thinks enforcing that rule as a fireman is

thinking, by asking Montag questions. The important questions that Clarisse asked Montag are, “You know I'm not afraid of you at all” (5). When Clarisse said that Montag ask, “Why should you be afraid of me”. When Clarisse said that, it made me think when he burns books, he doesn't know the meaning to what he is doing. Another question that Clarisse asked Montag that changed his thinking the most is, “Do you ever read any of the books you burn?”(5). This was an insane question to him because I think

make people forget about how the past was and make them follow their rules. An example of this is “His hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history.” This quote is talking about how the firemen are burning books that have information about the past. “He hung up his black beetle colored helmet and

night walk. She tells Montag that she is “17 and crazy.” She doesn’t hang out with kids her age, and she knows lots of information about things. Clarisse asks Montag many questions about himself. Montag is overwhelmed by this because he is not used to thinking a lot. Montag is a 30 year old fireman who loved starting fires and burning books. He doesn’t seem to know a lot, and he loves the smell of kerosene. When Clarisse and Montag meet, he starts questioning himself. “Of course I’m happy. What does

ideas. Clarisse wanted to change the way everyone was living and she tries to question Montag so he can realize how wrong their living conditions are.Montag is walking home from work, feeling good about himself, when he comes across

according to Beatty. Clarisse's need to understand why things were the way they were concerned Beatty the most. Montag finally lit the matches, there is no greater threat to the status quo in the society of Fahrenheit 451. Similar to how Clarisse's questions helped Montag come to terms with himself, her death motivates Montag to take action and strengthens his conviction that books might hold the key to preventing society's inevitable self-destruction. “Her death in the novel confirms that something

familiarity with someone? Guy Montag is a firefighter and the main character of the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury. Montag has a job as a firefighter that does not put out fires but instead starts them. He has a day to day life of burning old books that society deems as useless and illegal to have obtained. One day when Montag has a conversation with a unique teenage girl, Clarisse, he realizes that everything in his life is not what it seems. From examining the impact Clarisse has

was always talking to him about weird ideas. She asked him if he liked being fireman and if firemen always made fires and instead of putting them out. Clarisse would always talk to Montag on his way home. One day she wasn't there to ask montag questions which got him wondering about all the things she asked him. Montag realised that he was not happy being a firemen or with his life at all. His contact with Clarisse got Montag wondering

him, Montag snapped and set him on fire. Beatty also was a character in the book who Montag changed greatly from. Lastly, another person who greatly affected Montag was Clarisse. When Montag met Clarisse, he started to question his way of life and why people started burning books in the first place. For example, before Montag met Clarisse, he didn’t

25-26). Early in the story in an oppressive authoritarian society, a curious, innocent seventeen-year-old new neighbor, Clarisse, meets Guy Montag, the veteran 30 year-old book-burning fireman and questions him about work, society, and life. Her question about Montag’s happiness provokes him first to verbally dismiss the question with an “Of course I’m happy” as he enters his quiet room

Socrates was put on trial for his intentions that were good. Society thought them out to be bad, but all socrates was trying to do was to improve society as whole. To improve society socrates would question citizens of Athens and make them think about their reality. During Socrates trial they accused him of corrupting the youth. Socrates would never willingly corrupt the youth because he saw the youth as the future. Socrates saw corrupting the youth as a way of self harm. If the youth were brought

he was mindless and unimaginative, and he does not question himself or the dystopia he lived in; however, he transforms because Clarisse McClellan and Faber explain the importance of questioning the government and the world. Montag thought: “It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.” (1) He does not read the books he burns and does not seek their knowledge; he enjoys burning them. His actions are explained by fear, fear of being

every known thing in the world turned out to be misguided? What if people within the world learned ways of life and adapted to environments only to find out that it was all a lie? In "The Allegory of the Cave" from Plato's "The Republic", the same questions were considered and analyzed by Socrates, the speaker of the story. The Philosopher Socrates explicates his allegory of great curiosity to Glaucon, a man of whom Socrates shares his wealth of wisdom with. Socrates' purpose in expressing the allegory

to him until he witnessed a woman die over some books that he thought were insignificant to him before. This event leads to him questioning and doubting his society and his beliefs or morals. Once he begins to question himself and his morals he recognizes his actions and decides that burning books was wrong. He comes across enlightenment, in which he realizes that books are more than objects, they are thoughts and ideas that have taken a lifetime to write down, and he can’t just come and destroy it

neighbor and Guy Montag are walking down the street at night. Clarisse is asking Guy Montag a series of questions, and then she randomly hit him with a super personal question. This passage shows significance because Clarise and Guy just met, and she has already “broken him down”. What I mean by this is that Guy doesn’t open up to anyone, and all it took was Clarisse to get an answer to a personal question out of him and have him realize that he is actually not happy at all. This passage is worthy of

When Montag and Clarisse where walking, she had a question “Strange, I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames,” (Page 8). This got Montag to think a little bit. When Clarisse said this Montag started to laugh and she wondered why he was laughing because she had said nothing funny. After that Montag said that she was a strange person and then he started to ask Clarisse questions. This was a turning point for Montag because it made

ponders upon things such as happiness, love, and the contents of the books that he burns. The next morning Montag tries to discuss about what happened the night before, but his wife is uninterested in any type of discussion. She avoids Montag’s questions and instead focuses on the new scripts she has