Captain Beatty is an interesting character. His profession calls for him to oversee the burning of books; yet he knows a great deal about literature.
For this blog, please create Captain Beatty's back story. Write in first person, as if you are Captain Beatty and be sure to answer the following questions:
1.) Where are you from?
2.) How did you get into your profession?
3.) Why do you do what you do?
Responses should be a minimum of 250 words in length. This blog is due on Sunday, 13 March by 11:59 PM.
Hello aim captain Beatty, I come from a small town in the south. I became a fireman because I wanted to folio in the foot steps of my father. I know so much about literature because I myself do have quite the collect of books in a secret room in my house. I still continue to be a fireman however to keep out of suspicion and fear of being caught.
ReplyDeleteHello my name is Captain Beatty I'm from Ignitealldden a small town in the south. I'm an 45 year old man that enjoys literature more than anything g else. I use to write books and poetry in hopes to be a famous writer, but than my dream portrayed me. The untied states banned books so the human population can't rebel and out smart the government. Fireman started burning books instead of putting out fires. My country became very ignorant. Their was no such thing in love, or human communication anymore. Electronics now own the lives of everyone. At this time though I was so fumigated that my dream never came true. I became a fireman. I burned anything that had to do with literature. Over the years I seen my ignorance Of burning peoples passion and knowledge I once had. I began feeling bad for what I've done but I was in way to deep to stand up for one I believed in. When Montag began reading books I knew it was my chance. If I couldn't change the way things are thAn he can. So I made him burn down his own house. Now I stand before him in hopes that I can aggravate him to the point he will burn me to death and my death will be an example.
ReplyDeleteAs usual, I walked into the firehouse. None of the other firemen are here yet. I walk past the Mechanical Hound. I sit at the table where the other men and I play cards. I am alone. I begin to think about my past. I was ten when the books were banned.
ReplyDeleteMy father told me this when I came home from school.
It was a particularly difficult day of school that day. My classmates we were never friendly to me. I was an unusually intellectual child. I would always have a book in my hands. When I wasn't learning in school, I was would read. I knew so much about books that books were the only things I could talk about. My father disapproved of this. He was no proud of me, but ashamed.
My father also told me that day that he was assigned a new job, to burn books. I remember being appalled when he told me this. He forced me to hand over all me books so that he could burn them. He said it was illegal to have books now and that I would understand when I was older.
After that day my house was full of hate. Hate of books, and hate of thought. Soon technology took the place of this hate. We were too preoccupied with the parlor walls to think of anything. Soon I became a fireman to please my dying father.
Now I am sitting in the firehouse as captain of the firemen.
Hi my name is Captain Beatty; I am a middle age man who is from the United States. I am the captain of the firemen. I got my profession of being fire men when I learned that we could no longer read books I love to read books. I could never give up reading doing so I thought that if was to become firemen that would be the last person they would think would read so I chose to be firemen as a disguise to let me read. My job consists of burning down people’s homes that are caught reading it is agents the law to read hear. So when knowing that me being a firemen and being the captain I could have books in my house hidden that I read when I am alone and won’t get caught because no one would ever think to check my home or be cerise to see if I was reading. People do wonder sometimes how I am smart and no what I now. But I just tell them that’s because my father was a very smart man. I do feel bad for the men on my team so I allow them to take books from the homes we burn down and keep them for 24 hours but then they have to be burned. If they do not burn them we have suspicion that they intend to read and have books in there houses so then we will go burn down a firemen’s house if he does not follow the rules.
ReplyDeleteI am Captain Beatty. I grew up in a small town in Colorado. My dad was a professor; he was a very educated man. By the time I was born the government began to ban books. The first people that the government targeted were professors and other highly educated men and women who would mostly likely have possession of books. My father had a vast collection of books, we had a whole library, and my father was not willing to give that up. My mother and I helped him gather as many books as possible and we loaded them into our car, along with what few belongings we needed to survive. For most of my life I remember moving around the country to keep from being caught. I was never in any place long enough to make friends, so my only companion became the vast collection of books that I rode with in the back of the car. When my parents grew old, too old to continue on with their nomadic life, they figured they might as well get a house and stay there for the last few years of their life, which is how I ended up here. After my parents died I was left with the house. I did not want to be troubled with the burden of all the books that I had read so many times over. I moved out and joined the fire company. The first thing I did was go to the house in which I used to live and burned it to the ground with all those books inside. I knew I had to be a fireman, protecting people from what I had to go through. My life was turned upside down, and for what, a bunch words, on a bunch of pages all bound together by a hard cover. It was not worth it. The government was right, books and, questioning, and intellectual thought did nothing but cause pain and trouble. All the knowledge that I had got me nowhere, except for old and lonely. Now that I am a part of the fire company, destroying the very thing that destroyed me, I feel full and that I have a purpose in life.
ReplyDeleteMy Name is Captain Beatty and I am a Fire fighter. I burn houses instead of putting them out. I will tell you all about my life starting how I got here. I was coming from Mexico and passed the sobriety checkpoint test barely. I traveled many hours and many days to get hear and I used my 60's power chair. It went about 1MPH 2MHP if we were lucky. I came to the U.S. and started to fit in right away getting jobs hear and their. I once was a meat packer and I couldn't keep that job because it was too hard and too complicated. I Than became a fire man to burn houses. I have a big house with a big porch and it is rocking with a monster radio and speakers. Montag came in the fire haul and I thought he was the man for the job he was great. Years went buy and we worked to gather until I died by him killing me with a flame thrower. I wanted to die because I would have been sent to jail anyways for having 1,000,000 books in the house. I had them in my basement in a secret spot that no one would ever find even if the hound came in he couldn't even find it even if he tried.
ReplyDeleteMany people have recently been inquiring into my past so I just wanted to take this opportunity to explain a little bit about myself.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Captain Beatty and I'm a captain of the firemen. Often people wonder how and why I came about doing what I do. The answer to this question is within my past.
I'm originally from the weak country of Russia. I grew up from a young age under the influence of books. I loved to read and study the great philosophers. I marveled at the works of famous authors like Edgar Allen Poe. The entire nation was still swept up in this trend of the past. Meanwhile the great United States had forgotten about books. They outlawed them (as books rightfully should be). And as their people became happier and happier, the country grew in prosperity! With this prosperity came military power. Soon enough, the U.S. launched an attack on the rest of the world, beginning with my pathetic old country of Russia. Russia, having been so concerned with their reading, was completely unprepared and fell swiftly. It was as my country fell that I knew books were to blame. As a result of my knew mindset I gathered all the books I owned and started them on fire. I wished nothing more than to make these books that had destroyed my home to feel the same pain I felt. It was as I lit the pile that a U.S. soldier saw me, realizing I was different than the others. He saw I understood the evil of books. He picked me up and brought me back to the United States base where I was trained to hate books even more. I traveled to the United States and assumed the role of fireman. It wasn't long before I climbed up the ranks and reached the level of Captain.
So you see, this is why I do what I do. Books brought ruin upon my home. They are to blame for the weak and they bring nothing but conflict. I can now say with pride that I rose above the other stupid people of my old country and have managed to join the ranks of the greatest country on Earth.
Let me close by saying this: I swear to one and all that I will never stop. I will never rest. I will never tarry in my duties of book burning until the last book on the face of the planet is destroyed because until this happens. There will never be peace.
I, Captain Beatty, was born in Oxford, England a long time ago. Here, at age four, I began my education. From the beginning, I found books meaningless. They showed the weaknesses of society, and had the ability to make people angry or sad. They made people act in ways that they normally wouldn’t, and it disturbed me. Throughout my upbringing, I was forced to read more and more books full of the thoughts of Poe, Hawthorne, Darwin, and Fitzgerald. I became increasingly upset, until I could not handle it anymore. At age seventeen, I fled the country, leaving everything behind, to live in exile in the Russian wilderness. After braving the outdoors for quite some time, I realized that living alone was impractical. I made it all the way to the village of Krasnoyarsk, where I stayed for three years living above an old pub and washed dishes to earn my keep. Even though there were books here, I wasn’t expected to read as they were in a language foreign to me. I was happier there than I had been in years, but still wasn’t completely satisfied, as the effects of books still surrounded me. One day while waiting on tables, I heard a group talking about the United States, and the recent banning of books there. I listened in on their conversation, very interested at what they had to say. The United States had become the strongest nation in the world over the past few years and had just recently passed an amendment to outlaw books. Firemen, who were here to put out accidental fires in the past, now had the job of burning books hidden in houses across the country. I knew that this was my chance at happiness, and made the trip across country and over the Pacific in a little over one day. It is here I got a job as a fireman, and have remained since, happier than ever before.
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ReplyDeleteMy name is Captain Beatty. I am forty-two years old, and I come from the small town of Augusta, Montana, where the population is only 284 people. Growing up, I had one brother, Warren; He was eleven years older than me. My father had abandoned our family when I was young, so Warren was like a father to me. He taught me how to swim, how to shoot a basketball, and how to read. Reading was my favorite pastime. From a young age, I became extremely intrigued with literature. With Warren’s help, I was reading novels by the age of six. I engulfed myself in books, absorbing every last word. Warren and I read together every day. The works of Sir Philip Sidney, Alexander Pope, and William Shakespeare were our favorite. We would quote them day in and day out. My poor mother!
ReplyDeleteBy the time I was a teen, I had read more literature than the average man would have read in his lifetime. Then, when I was just fourteen years old, Warren was killed in a car accident while he was driving home from work. Warren’s death made me a cold and angry human being. The one and only person I had ever looked up to was gone. I began to hate everything that reminded me of Warren. I closed myself off from the rest of the world. Reading was the one thing that I had loved, but with Warren’s death I began to hate it. Books had made me feel as though anything was possible. But once Warren died, I realized that books were nothing more than false information. I was foolish to believe that they contained the truth about anything at all. I moved from my small cow town in Montana to the big city in hopes of starting over.
Then, when I was eighteen years old, the government banned books. This was a blessing to me, for I would no longer have to endure the agony that I had to on a daily basis, as books were everywhere. Not long after the government banned books, I started seeing advertisements in the newspaper and hearing announcements on the radio: The government was hiring firemen to burn books. With my past history, I knew this was the perfect job for me. I was hired almost instantly after applying. I worked at the profession for years, until finally I was promoted to Captain.
I feel as though it is my duty to protect society from the affect books have. I experienced firsthand what books can do to a person; I learned the hard way. They built me up, made me believe anything was possible. Then, reality hit me in the worst way possible and tore me down. The fact is that the things books say are fake and more importantly, dangerous. I take pride in my profession because I know I am helping to keep our nation safe from false hope. After all, that is all books are: false hope.
Hello, my name is Captain Beatty. I was born and raised in Rochester, New York. When I was about five years old my grandpa died in a fire. He was on a call trying to save someone and ended up getting killed. My dad soon became a fireman after that. He noticed how you could help they community you live in by keeping everyone safe. He went trough two years of training before he was on his first official call. My mom was always worried about him when he was out but he said he would be careful. One day when we were having a family party he was called on an emergency car crash. The car was flipped over and on the side of the road. They figured out that the driver lost control of the car and hit a guardrail and flipped. The driver got out safe but his car was on its way to the junkyard now. When my dad started talking to me about how much I could help the community by becoming a firemen too, I told him yes and that I wanted him to start to teach me everything now. When I turned sixteen I was an official volunteer at my local fire department. I would go and practice with everyone and learn what to do in different situations. When I was starting to go into my late twenties, society started to change. More and more people were depending on technology for everything. I myself love reading and writing and just a few months ago it became illegal to read any books. I was secretly hiding books throughout my house for my children to read someday. I was concerned that a neighbor would see me reading but I was very careful of when I would look at my books. Firemen were then given the job to burn down anyone’s house if they were caught reading any books. Their neighbors could call the fire department and leave a message saying what house and where they saw the books. It was definitely different burning houses rather then putting them out. I stayed being a fireman because I know how much it means to my grandpa and my dad that I kept the tradition going. Also to help keep my community safe but now in a different way.
ReplyDeleteHello, I am Captain Beatty. I was born in a small town called Sprint. I was barly five years old when the goverment has officale made a law banning books. So I don't remember a United State pre book burning. When I was the however while walking home from school I found an old book with big letters "Dictionary" on it. When I got home I begane to read the book and was in ashtonishment over why the goverment would want to hide such a thing as a book. Wich seemed to be the source of the meaning of everthing in the world. Sadly I knew I had to hide the book somehow out of fear of my father the cheif fireman. Now I am old and my father has passed away. My book collection has grown from that first book to thousand, because just as my father wanted I followed in his foot steps and have become a fire chief myself. And on every fire call we recieve I secretly take on book home to my collection. Now I fear that the goverment knows I have books and I fell as though my only way out is to sell Guy Montage out and exspose him as a book horder.
ReplyDeleteThe name is Captain Beatty, I was born in a small town off of Hawaii called Caprisun. Only child of my died parents that died in a terrible car crash that ended up on fire. I always had a thing for setting things on fire, I would burn blankets, toys and when I was mad I even set on fire street rats. My grandparents took me in, and set very strict rules. So when I wanted to escape I ran into the woods and start sticks on fire. I just loved how the colors and the look of the fire, I was attracted to it. I had a hard time in school, got in lots of trouble, by setting paper on fire in the garbage can, in the boy’s bathroom. After years of trying to focus in school, I dropped out. Spent a lot of time in the woods, lighting stuff on fire, just thinking what I want to do in life. Then one day in the woods, I heard the most beautiful sound of a fire truck. The fire truck stopped at my neighbor’s house so I watched in amazement, the way the firemen moved was so gracefully as they put out the fire. As the firemen walked out of the smoked out house, I knew what I wanted to do. Even though I was more interested in starting things on fire, putting them out was second best. So I went back to school, started to focus and mainly focus on what I wanted in my life, fire. I proudly graduated with my degree for a fireman. As the times were changing, the rules of a fireman did too and what society expected from a fireman did too. No longer did firemen put out fires on burning house. We had a more important task to do, to save mankind from intelligence.
ReplyDeletehello my name is captain beatty. i am 30 years old from small town called hazzard. i was an only child and when my house burnt down i was the only one left. thats why i became a firefighter but now a days we are doing the total opposite of what we did back in the day. we used to put the fire out and save lives now we go to houses and burn them down because they have books in there house. i kinda like the old days better because people werent scared of us we were there to help the people who needed it. now everyone is very scared and wont even wanna look at me when im out and about. I dont like it at all i used to be a people person but now im the worst nightmare to everyone now a days. Last run i was on i watched a poor girl want to die with all of here books inside the house we told her to get away from the house but she just did not want to leave her books so she burned with her books just like she wanted. I hate when i have to see people like that it makes me sick to my stomac but i have to get going now so see yall later
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ReplyDeleteHi my name is Captain Beatty and my occupation is a fireman. This is the 24th century in the United States so this is a little different than they use to be. The work of a fireman in the 24th century is way different than it was in the 21st century. We start the fires rather than put the fires out. The only reason we start the fires is if a person is suspected or has books in his or her home. I wanted this profession because my grandfather and father was fireman so I decided to keep it in our family. I also had to go through a lot of training to become a fireman. They make you pretend there is a call and you have to suit up and burn the house down. We use kerosene to start our fires because it won’t act like gas cause if you let it sit for a little bit then it won’t start on fire. I do this job because I like laying down the law and because it makes me feel like I’m doing the right thing. Another reason I like being a fireman is that it has been in my family for a long time. This is why I like being a fireman and I am a fireman.
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ReplyDeletehello my name is Captain Beatty and i am the head of a firehouse. i am from a small town in NYC where firehouses are everywhere and always fires. i decided to be a firefighter because before me my father and my grandfather were both firefighters. for many years i always loved my fathers ocupation and when i grew up i knew that would be my calling. times have changed from when my grandfather was a firefighter when he was they actually out fires out compared to now in the 24th century where me make the fires and purposly start house on fire. my whole life i have had lots of knodlege when it comes to liature and books. i secretly have been reading books for years and keep them hidden in the firehoiuse. this is another reason why i know it would be proper to be a firmen. no one would ever expect that a fireman and a head one also to be reading books when it is illegal. if my plan keeps working and goes the way i hope i will never get coaght as long as i am a head fireman.
ReplyDeleteMy Name is Captain Beatty. I am a fireman in what you would call the twenty forth century. You probably think of firemen as ones who save people and stop fires on houses in your time, but in my time, that has all but changed. We now live under the creed if we find any literature, also known as books, to burn them immediately, and also the house in which they are stored. I am one of the Chief firemen on the force, my job is to make sure my boys and I finish our job clean and right. I come from a family that hated books. When I was a mere child, I stole books from my fathers keep, and read myself to sleep every night. Many have questioned me in the force why I am so fluent in literature, yet I do a job that is the top most against it. Once after I graduated from high school, I tried to get a job as being an English teacher. I was so interested in literature, but I did not take the job, for I feared for my own safety and my family’s safety. I looked into a profession, in which I could take cover, were no one would suspect me of hiding books, and what better job than a fireman. You could call me a two faced person cause around society, I am a hater of books, a fire chief captain, who despises books, but really I am a lover of literature that only shows it with people I dearly trust. That is why I am a fireman, and why I know so much.
ReplyDeleteHello my name is Captain Beatty and i am a fireman. Instead of putting fires out i am supposed to start them when someone has a book in there house. Books never used to be illegal but now they are. I am 30 years old and i came from florida. I lived with my father and he was a very smart man. My father was an english professor and he owned many books. I used to read them all the time when i was growing up i loved reading them. When my father would come home from work i would take the books he was reading and i would read them. I was a very smart guy and i knew a lot of different information. Sometimes my dad would teach me different things about what he taught his class that day. Sometimes i would go to work with my dad and just sit there and listen to what he was teaching and the questions that everyone had asked. Then i went to school and i loved going, i loved to learn about different things and i was very good at school. I decided i was going to follow my fathers footsteps and become a english professor. When my house got burnt down my father had died but i kept all the books that he had and i would still read them until they were illegal. I was not going to become an english professor anymore cause you were not able to read and you didnt learn anything in school anymore. When books became illegal i decided that i would hide the books out in my house but i would become a fireman so no one would think that i would have books. I still read the books today but secretly because i love books. This is the reason i am a fireman today.
ReplyDeleteGrowing up in a small town, you learn that news can travel rather quickly, especially bad news. I grew up with a brother who was seen as a danger to society. He was a reader. He was a thinker.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Elmer Beatty and my brother’s name was Alan. We both grew up in Yazoo, Alabama. Around the time we were children, our town had begun to view thinkers and readers as public enemies. The government had already started talking about banning books and related materials. The idea was that an individual, who can voice their personal opinion freely, an individual who has a thirst for knowledge, and individual who can find emotion from reading, is an ultimate and present danger to the society and government of the United States. There were already a view people who had begun to speak out against this. They believed it took away their individual rights as a US citizen and as a human being, but the government has always possessed the right to suspend a person’s rights during a time of crisis (the threat of world atomic war had been eminent at the time). My brother was one of the few who started protesting these proposed ideas. He was infatuated with books and thinking. He took a more extreme approach and started to burn down official buildings and the houses of government officials.
He is the reason houses are fire proofed. He is the reason I burn books today. The position of the firefighter has changed because of this. Houses were fireproofed because of him. Books and the houses they reside in are now destroyed because of people like him. I am now a firefighter to hide my past.