Fahrenheit 451: Part 2

Fahrenheit 451 ended in an expected, yet unexpected way to me. I didn't like how Clarisse's disappearane was never truly explained, simply hinted at. I think it would have been more interesting to have a sure fire answer, because there's always the off chance she could have done like Montag and run to the woods and been claimed dead, but I guess that's part of the hope aspect. The Mildred removal from the story was foreshadowed in a way, however, in that she would turn on him. The reading of Dover Beach really seemed a foreshadow to how the book would end in that it almost talks about lost hope, and the reactions of the women (crying and name calling) seem to show a true example of how much the hope has gone from society without literature that they don't even want to hear reading. The ending with the bombing, however, I interpretted in a strange way I think. I saw the bombs as the final straw of the missing hope for society, and once the war ended and the city was gone, civilization can start over with a chance of literature coming back, and thus, a hope revival. I really liked this book, despite my Daddy's awful reviews of it!