Socratic Seminar Reflection

Socratic Seminar Notes What role does friendship and camaraderie play in the novel? In what ways is it helpful/harmful to the characters in AQWF? A. Page 274-275. Used as a coping tool for the loneliness and despair of war. Helpful because it gives the characters something to rely on throughout the battles, as a feeling of safety, comfort, and assurance.

Was Mildred right to turn him in? Although there’s many reasons that this was a good idea and also why it was a bad idea. I know that it was something that should

"Millie? Does the White Clown love you?" No answer. "(pg 76). The quote explains how Mildred is only concerned about what's on TV and not what’s going on around her.

The faults of society are shown through Mildred’s obsession with physical beauty, disconnection with the real world and inability to reflect upon her actions. To start, Mildred demonstrates that members of

The absence of nature in Mildred's face portrays a sad and depressive life. Since the society in the novel has no toleration for

She believed that the senators would side with her, because she believed in humanistic honor. She believed that all people deserved to be treated properly. Towards the end of the play, she talks about how she had been treated inhumanely toward her presumable death. Ismene:

Why Mildred is like this because in the novel Fahrenheit 451, Captain Beatty gives a speech saying, “ People want to be happy, people want to have fun”. The speech means people want to have fun in life and enjoy their life. What I think about this society is it’s okay if you want to have fun but you have to wake up and realize reality that you can’t always have fun.

(MIP-2) This materialism causes a lack of human compassion. (SIP-A) When Montag is clearly distressed and looks toward Mildred to confide in, she doesn’t show any compassion towards him. (STEWE-1)

Mildred is ignorant to the fullest extent, yet she believes that her life is perfectly swell and happy, just her and her parlor: “‘My ‘family’ is my people. They tell me things; I laugh, they laugh! And the colors!’”(69). Mildred has never ventured into the deeper thoughts of books. Subsequently, she only knows the superficial happiness of laughing with her parlor walls, and seeing the brilliant colors of this fake reality.

Like the society, Mildred is brainwashed by the television due to this reason she is incapable of thinking and forming thoughts. If people do not acknowledge the fact, then it never existed for them. Clearly, this behavior is detected in Mildred, who is blocking out the facts by concealing her

Socratic Seminar Questions Closed ended question - In the end what happened to the multiple teenage girls that called out the townspeople supposed of witchcraft? Open ended question - What are the causes of the mass panic in the solemn town of Salem?

She even thinks of the characters on the screens as her “family”. There is another reason why she’s become addicted to the walls. Above all else, Mildred values distraction. Deep down, she is sad and alone.

Simple pastimes are frowned upon and sometimes even punishable in Montag’s society, however Clarisse loves these simple things. She does not need a television to keep her happy. This is the cause of her individuality. Mildred is the complete opposite of Clarisse. Mildred’s shallowness, complacency, and hatred of books stems from her refusal to think for herself.

I attended the Graduate Student Q&A discussion session last Thursday, where I learned about what it is like to be a graduate student. The speakers were Courtney Boise and Josh Zosky- both are working on their PhD program, especially in the fields of developmental and neuroscience, respectively. They discussed the graduate program as the session offered students the opportunity to ask questions they might have regarding graduate school. Josh 's research interest is in neuroimaging and use that to build devices for rehabilitation.

1. What sticks in your mind about a reading or an online session? Why? What was comfortable, known? What was not?