Fahrenheit 451 Compared To Today

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Ray Bradbury wrote many books that most would describe them as poetic like that involved fantasy, and described things or events thoroughly, among those books came one called Fahrenheit 451. Many people disprove with the way Bradbury writes because they believe he lacks knowledge in science and they accuse him of narrative inconsistencies. Most strongly disagree with those people and approve that Bradbury's way of writing is unique and really makes lots of connections with our world today. His books and one in specific, Fahrenheit 451, leaves a powerful message for readers today because of the similarities between our world and the novel's world. People in the novel’s society get so accustomed to it, they are blindly obedient and the government can be able to take stuff from them without them even noticing or caring. The people in the society from the book are interested in just entertainment and their happiness. They are also ignorant when it comes to children and school, in school the kids don’t learn much anymore they are just focused on sports and they don’t read books in which they can gain knowledge. The kids in this society are violent as Clarisse have …show more content…
They believe that no one would let the society be the same as the one in the story. Although most people agree that, if there were to be in a situation like that they wouldn’t speak up and others would be blindly obedient. Therefore having people that don’t speak up for themselves and people who are blindly obedient then the society is more likely to end up like the one in the novel. This book shows how a society can end up like that and it shows the many similarities there is between that world and the one we live in. Technology and entertainment is their only priority in the story and in our world it's becoming that way, younger kids are into technology nowadays instead of reading

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