Fahrenheit 451 Theme Essay

People have experienced this in life and these ideas are shown in many stories too. The theme and idea that change is hard to accept is shown throughout the book. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the theme of change is hard to accept shows the struggles that the main characters are going through, and the futuristic society that is struggling with the idea of not being with a tv or entertainment. Near the end of the book Montag is struggling with the idea of finally escaping the punishment of having books and where everybody is anti social, by getting scared of a deer, and still thinking that the mechanical hound is after him even though he just escaped to the river. In Fahrenheit 451, the theme that change is hard to accept is shown. During the …show more content…
In this part of the book it is showing a summary of the entire book by having the news reporter have everyone go to their front doors to look for Montag this shows that they are glued to their tvs because they most of the viewers would not have gotten out of their seat to go outside if it wasn’t for the television telling them to do so. It would be as if they were getting up in the middle of an exciting movie for some small, random reason. In this part of the book the news reporter on the tv is saying to everyone who is watching the chase on their tv at home to go outside and look for Montag so that the police can arrest him. The news reporter directs everyone who is watching on tv, “Everyone in every house in every street open a front door or rear door or look out the windows.” This shows that in this city most of the people have tv’s and are not able to accept the change of reading a book or doing anything else than spending time with a TV. This quote is important because it shows that these people almost cannot do anything else than watch tv because everyone who was outside looking for Montag at the same time was only watching