The Hound

So these blogs are getting really hard to when you have a kitten that is ten weeks old trying to walk all over the gosh darn keyboard! They are also really hard to do when you have just woken up from and nap and you keep making spelling errors because of exhaustion. Ok so finally I can type now because this cute little kitty is sitting on my lap and not trying to get attention by walking all over the key board. So, this blog is once again about the Book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. To me, this book includes very interesting futuristic technology, but I noticed a few flaws with the way that the author to the book Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury presents some things. For example, in the book Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury includes this robot creature that is like a mixture between a dog and a spider because it has eight legs. In the book Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury’s characters refer to this robotic animal as a hound. The job of this hound is to hunt down and kill fugitives that have escaped the police of the futuristic society of Fahrenheit 451. Normally the police in the book catch nearly all of the criminals, but when one of the fugitives get away, the police summons the hound to track down and kill the fugitive by following the scent. One thing that I noticed that was really weird about the hound was that it basically attacked anything it could. The thing was basically not trained at all whatsoever. In fact, there were many instances throughout the story where Montag was afraid that the hound would attack him inside the police station. Whenever I read these passages, they made no sense to me. How could the hound in the story be disciplined enough to track down anyone by smell if it would try attacking anyone? Wouldn’t the hound just see someone while it was trying to chase a fugitive and start chasing that person instead of the fugitive that it was actually trying to catch?