Entry 7- Settings then comments

Are there any settings in this novel which you have found to be beautiful? Or disturbing? Or memorable? Describe these settings and comment on why they were meaningful to you.

There was a setting in this novel that was very memorable to me. That was when Montag showed his wife, Mildred, that he had many books hidden in the hall near the front door. As the author described how Montag pulled out book after book, the expression on Mildred's (Montag's wife) face was incredulous with the air of astonishment around her. Montag with his fixed and solemn face reaching in than out, in and out built suspense in my mind of what was going to happen next. When Mildred is terrified as if she was confronted by a pack of mice that had come up out of the floor, Montag explains to her what they should do. While they are talking, they are interrupted. On that paragraph it says "'Guy!' The front door voice called softly: 'Mrs. Montag, Mrs. Montag, someone here, someone here, Mrs. Montag, Mrs. Montag, someone here,' Softly. They turned to stare at the door and the books toppled everywhere, everywhere in heaps 'Beatty!' said Mildred...
That paragraph sent us a message of how terrified that was, and that was very memorable to me. Montag's immeasurable guilt and imagining how he felt that moment in front of his wife confessing that he had been doing this all along shot my brain like an arrow and deeply pierced my mind. Even though it was not one of the major scenes, it showed how head-strong and brave Guy was and how faithful he was to his wife. I also thought that the big troubles started from this moment and that feeling was a sensation to me.

Another major memorable scene was when Montag was running, he was almost killed by a 'Beetle' that was being driven by a carfull of children of all ages. Starting with the sentence 'Three blocks away a few headlights glared', I felt that the author really brought out the scene and once again built suspense that put the reader on the edge of their seat. On page 127, in the last paragraph it says'...then he broke and just ran. He put his legs as far as they would go and down and then far out again and down and back out and down and back. God! God! He dropped a book, broke pace, almost turned, changed his mind, plunged on, yelling in concrete emptiness, the beetle scuttling after its running food, two hundred, one hundred feet away, ninety, eighty, seventy, Montag gasping, flailing his hands, legs up down out, up down out, closer, closer hooting, calling, his eyes burnt white now as his head jerked about to confront the flashing glare, now the beetle was swallowed in its own light, now it was nothing but a torch hurtling upon him; all sound, and blare. Now- almost on top of him!' At this sentence, I was too wild to read the next sentence. I could feel that the author put a lot into this paragraph to let his readers know how it would feel to be in this kind of situation in reality. Just think. Just think for a moment if it was yourself running down that alley with your life at stake running for your life. It felt to me that Ray Bradbury had opened a door to let us be in his mind for that moment as Guy Montag. How the author set the paragraph of Guy running was a mind-flipper.