What is the mood of this novel? Do you find this novel saddens you in any way? why?
I would say that the mood of this novel is very different compared to other novels. As Captain Beatty explains the whole point of this dystopia is to keep its citizens happy. Now, isn't that contradictory? But it is astonishingly true in this case. A happy dystopia. But then again people have the wrong view of happiness. Would you obtain happiness if all the sorrow from your life would be erased? Would you even understand what happiness is until you understand sorrow? In my opinion it would be very hard to.

foe example : If you were allowed to watch TV all the time and not study or read books, would you really experience the pleasure of watching TV?

I would say that the novel has more of a pessimistic side. This novel starts with :"It was a pleasure to burn." Right from the first sentence negativity plays a main part. It was really intimidating to observe the fierceness of fire. Fire, I believe plays a main part in this novel. It was the same fire that was used to burn, kill and destroy! It was the same fire that had Montag used at first to burn the old lady, and it was the same fire that came to his rescue when he killed Captain Beatty.

Another incident that I observed at the end of the novel was the mention of the Phoenix. Phoenix is a bird that rises from the fire and it burns itself; then rises again from its ashes. The sequence of events that take place in this novel are very similar to the life of a Phoenix. First Montag realises that there is a world beyond being a fireman, seeing things like everyone else does(rising from the fire). Then he is ruined by his wife's actions, that is Mildred telling Beatty about the books(burning down). Lastly the fact that Montag fights back and is successful again to "rise from the fire". I trust that the mention of the whole conception of Phoenix effectively ties back to the themes of this novel.