Do you like books? Are you on your phone all the time? In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the society has banned books. There are firefighters, but instead of putting out the fires, they create them. They generate these fires because they need to burn the books; the fires can be set to houses or just the books themselves. One of the firefighters, Guy Montag, establishes an interest in books, and his wife turns him in to the fire chief. Guy’s house is soon burned down. With the decrease in books, the amount of technology has increased. Guy’s wife, along with most of the world, has developed an obsession with technology, mainly television. Fahrenheit 451 tells a powerful message to its readers because of the similarities between our world and
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First, a lack of knowledge only offers an illusion of happiness. A lot of knowledge that you have comes from books that you read in school and also books that you read for fun. In Fahrenheit 451, books are prohibited, so the people need to get their knowledge elsewhere. There are only a few people in this novel that think books are important, for example Faber. He says: “Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features” (Bradbury 83). He’s saying that books contain lots of meaning and emotion. One can’t get this kind of emotion from anything else. The society is also not very concerned about war. They are aware of it, but don’t know that it’s actually happening: “Is it because we’re so having so much fun …show more content…
Many, many people have cellphones, Ipads, and computers. We are constantly on them and sometimes they are hard to put down. In Fahrenheit 451, Mildred, along with a greater share of people, have TV walls. These TVs are constantly on and being watched. They are very expensive, and Mildred wants a fourth one. Mildred doesn’t even remember that they just got a third wall only two months ago: “It’s only two thousand dollars. And I should think you’d consider me sometimes. If we had a fourth wall, why it’d be just like this room wasn’t ours at all, but all kinds of exotic people’s rooms. We could do without a few things” (Bradbury 20). Mildred is so consumed in watching television that she doesn’t care that it will take 1/3 of Montag’s salary. The main TV show that Mildred is watching is about a family. When talking about the TV show to Montag and her friends, she even calls them her family: “’Will you turn the parlor off?’ he asked. ‘That’s my family.’ ‘Will you turn it off for a sick man?’ ‘I’ll turn it down’” (Bradbury 49). This quote shows Montag and Mildred fighting about the television; Mildred can’t even turn it off to take care of her sick husband because she is so consumed in her show. Mildred may think that this show is making her cheery, but in reality it’s making her stubborn and bitter. On the other hand, one might believe their technology does make them happy. For example, my phone/social media
First, a lack of knowledge only offers an illusion of happiness. A lot of knowledge that you have comes from books that you read in school and also books that you read for fun. In Fahrenheit 451, books are prohibited, so the people need to get their knowledge elsewhere. There are only a few people in this novel that think books are important, for example Faber. He says: “Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features” (Bradbury 83). He’s saying that books contain lots of meaning and emotion. One can’t get this kind of emotion from anything else. The society is also not very concerned about war. They are aware of it, but don’t know that it’s actually happening: “Is it because we’re so having so much fun …show more content…
Many, many people have cellphones, Ipads, and computers. We are constantly on them and sometimes they are hard to put down. In Fahrenheit 451, Mildred, along with a greater share of people, have TV walls. These TVs are constantly on and being watched. They are very expensive, and Mildred wants a fourth one. Mildred doesn’t even remember that they just got a third wall only two months ago: “It’s only two thousand dollars. And I should think you’d consider me sometimes. If we had a fourth wall, why it’d be just like this room wasn’t ours at all, but all kinds of exotic people’s rooms. We could do without a few things” (Bradbury 20). Mildred is so consumed in watching television that she doesn’t care that it will take 1/3 of Montag’s salary. The main TV show that Mildred is watching is about a family. When talking about the TV show to Montag and her friends, she even calls them her family: “’Will you turn the parlor off?’ he asked. ‘That’s my family.’ ‘Will you turn it off for a sick man?’ ‘I’ll turn it down’” (Bradbury 49). This quote shows Montag and Mildred fighting about the television; Mildred can’t even turn it off to take care of her sick husband because she is so consumed in her show. Mildred may think that this show is making her cheery, but in reality it’s making her stubborn and bitter. On the other hand, one might believe their technology does make them happy. For example, my phone/social media