Fahrenheit 451 Influence On Society

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Fahrenheit 451 reflects on how a society without the influence of books will lead to people with barely an opinion, less knowledge, and having their thoughts being dictated by the Television. Montag is a fireman whose job is to burn all books. Books are banned because different groups of people got offended by some books. The government thought it to be best to ban books to keep the peace and harmony. Because of the ban, people started thinking everything from the Television is completely true and began thinking the same because of only getting information from one source. People started talking less just to watch more TV, but when they actually did it was rarely an intelligent conversation. Since television doesn’t show a lot about what’s

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