Entry 6- What do you think?

Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.

He was looking for a brightness, a resolve, a triumph over tomorrow that hardly seemed to be there. Perhaps he had expected their faces to burn and glitter with the knowledge they carried, to glow as lanterns glow, with the light in them. But all the light had come from the campfire, and these men had seemed no different than any others who had run a long race, searched along search, seen good things destroyed, and now, very late, were gathered to wait for the end of the party and the blowing out of the lamps.

They weren't at all certain that the things they carried in their heads might make every future dawn glow with a purer light, they were sure of nothing save that the books were on the file behind their quiet eyes, the books were waiting, with their pages uncut, for the customers who might come by in later years, some with clean and some with dirty fingers.
Montag squinted form one face to another as they walked.
"Don't judge a book by its cover," someone said.
And they all laughed quietly, moving down stream.

This passage was very significant to me, and I especially liked the quote "Don't judge a book by its cover". I also thought that this quote really matched the situation. In the previous page of this in the book, it tells us that the people who are like Montag and who are with him now are basically walking books because they have the contents of a book instead of the physical copy of it. Now Montag is looking at their faces to find the glow and light in their faces, which practically means he is looking at the 'cover' of the walking books(the men that Montag are with).

It was also meaningful to me because I agreed to this passage, however, most of the time, it didn't quite match up. Don't judge a book by its cover" is a quote that I heard many times in my life from teachers to parents, and is not entirely true. Just because maybe a book had a stain on the cover, or has old styled, black and white pictures does not mean that it will be a horribly boring book with the most dullest characters. Maybe the cover is a scene from a dream or an event, or an adventure. The outside appearance cannot give you a direct judgement about the contents of the book. Most of the time however, I found this false. An front cover of an action book forexample, will have a picture realted in some way to fights or maybe violence that can send the reader the message that this book is about action. This is the same with people in society.

If someone was handicapped, or maybe did not have the most beautiful face in the world, it cannot possibly give you what their personality or characteristics are like. Unless you have actually met them, interacted with them, had spent some time with them, it is impossible to find if one's character is good or bad. The problem is, it is not always like that. Many people, in fact most people who live in this world judge people they have never met before by their outside appearance first. Often times, people are misunderstood by their looks and the judgements other people make by your appearance. Imagine if this occurred to you. Would you feel good if somebody judged you by the way you look?

I find that I cannot say it is right or wrong when people say "don't judge a book by its cover". In my opinion, we should not judge the book at all by its cover, but judge the book by actually reading it and thinking it over after you are done reading.