Why?...
Why
being a fireman? Is because my father was one of them? Or my grandfather? Or it
was because I wanted that my father and my grandfather were pride of me? Or I
wanted attention? Or being important?
I
think it was because I wanted to be important to do something “good” for the
society, because I wanted to put an end to all the things that made people
unhappy, the books, that thing that was not allowed to touch, to see, or to
have.
Now,
in my 30 years of life, I understand that the majority of things are not
allowed, the more you want it, and I like all other humans want to show why
books are so bad and why it where prohibited a long time ago. Since that day
the expression in her eyes, her attitude and her sense of dying with her books,
that was… that was traumatic seeing how the body of the thing that a moment ago
was an old woman seeing how it shakes, scream and die.
That
scene was creepy, but I take one of the books and read it with Mildred, she was
scared, to scare, but I say she to read, to understand, to help me but deep
inside of she, she don´t want to do it, she don´t want to help me understand,
she don´t love me, that day I understand that and I understand that books help
you, with books you understand anything that happen in this world.
Now
I have friends, now I have people that love me that care what I care like professor
Faber, an Oldman lover of books and with a lot of crazy ideas of technological
advances, he created a rare little bean that I can put in my ear and hear him
in whatever place I´m in, that´s amazing. He knows the truth, he knows how to
help me, he knows how all this damn thing begin, and he knows people, people
like him and like me, people who love books and know that books are the solution.
I´m scared, I recognize it, but I´m more scared about the books, my collection
is, I think, the last thing that can save us, save our society, what happen if
Beatty found it? I have to do something, and if that mean I have to fight to
protect my books, I will do it. Now I can trust in no one, only in Faber, I
can´t trust in Mildred, or in the firemen, I only can be by myself, and this
adventure is something that would change me, change the world, change
everything, and this is something I have to do.
Based on the character Montag of the book Fahrenheit 451.
Writting exercise created by Juan José Torres Varela & Luis Gabriel Acosta Lozano
eleven 51.
