2nd entry

EMPATHY - Write about something happening in the book that you can relate to:

In today’s situation, firemen are liked. They are there to protect people in dangerous situations and they usually have a good reputation, since they don't do their job just for the money (unlike many other people today). But in the book I’m reading, it seems like firemen aren't people who are liked by the population and also they seem to avoid communications. It is a bit understandable for me, since according to the story, firemen are forced to burn any books and also destroy any informations left by earlier generations and are not mainly there to avoid the burning of houses. When Clarisse McClellan asks Montag if firemen used to extinguish burning houses, Montag answers by saying: No, houses are fireproof and they always were; which I found a bit weird.

I got most of the informations from page 12 in the conversation between the firemen Montag and the 17-year-old girl Clarisse McClellan.