Analysis Of The Trends In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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“Judging things by the appearance or as a whole may be different than looking closely at things which may reveal errors, knowledge, or even surprises.” Most people, at first, judge other people or things by the appearance; thus, making unnecessary actions. After they look closely in detail, they see things different causing them to make different reactions both good and bad. This happens with every single thing and as you learn more you get different results which may surprise the examiner. Humans have this bad ability to make judgements and decisions and that habit will never be gone. This patterned routine will be contained in humans in the past, the present, and the future. This is very essential and it describes Bradbury’s trends and the characters in the book Fahrenheit 451. Based on the main trends (drug use and antidepressants, TV, consumerism, and family disintegration) or the possible elements to construct his conclusion, Bradbury’s vision about these trends was correct and incorrect and the value of …show more content…
It is the separations of the family members. Reasons that this might happen might be personal reasons or a way to get happy or sad. When Montag told Granger about the loss of Mildred, he doesn’t feel anything. This is because that there is no real love connections between them and may be caused by other reasons such as entertainment or drug use. Bradbury’s trend about a lot of family disintegration in the future is incorrect. This is because there is a strong “love” between family relationships and that the “love is worth more than anything else. A few of this may happen due to several personal reasons, but the chances are low. Potential values of dystopian literature is the use to give out sadness to the readers. Unless you have true love of each other, family disintegration is not likely to happen, but it is very effective to dystopian

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