How Does Fahrenheit 451 Affect Society

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Fahrenheit 451 Society

What would you do if you couldn't find your identity because of media or try to hang out with someone but you couldn't because there's too much violence and not be happy because you want express your self ?The book Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury ,he explains how the society in the book is so dumb for the fact that they believe everything they see .And how they don't care for one another .And they ride off books so they won't have any feelings or emotions and have a supposedly a better society . Media affects how we identify ourselves, violence impacts human relationships and we need to know our identity to be truly happy.

Identity is affected by Media because people in the book just focus on media and don't have time to think who they

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