(TS): Technology is dangerous because someone can get so involved in it that eventually technology will become that person's entire life, this is the major message that Ray Bradbury is stating throughout the story.
(MIP-1) Technology is everywhere and the characters in the book live and survive on technology.
(MIP-2) People become so involved in technology that they become inhuman.
(MIP-3) People who step away from technology gain real emotions and memories.
(AGG) In Fahrenheit 451 there are many types of technology that are used everyday such as tv’s, earbuds, long billboards and mechanical hounds. (BS-1)People become so involved in technology that it gets rid of their human emotions. (BS-2)People become so involved in technology that …show more content…
(SIP-A)The characters in the story use technology for everything. (STEWE-1) The firemen use the Mechanical Hound to help them with their job, they are using technology. ”The Mechanical hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse”(21-22). The firemen use the hound to help sniff out people who have books and kill them. (STEWE-2) Mildred thinks that she has a great life by overdosing on sleeping pills.”This machine pumped all of the blood from the body and replaced it with fresh blood and serum”(12). Since Mildred constantly is taking sleeping pills she is being cleaned out by machines and is given clean,fresh blood. This also shows that she has no feelings in her heart for anyone she can just be cleaned out. (SIP-B) Montag has been around technology his whole life that he wants to explore the outside world and read books. (STEWE-1) When Montag was floating down the river he realizes what he has been missing out on. ”There must have been a billion leaves on the land; he waded in them, a dry river smelling of hot cloves and warm dust”(137). Montag has been involved in so much technology over the period of his life that when he steps out of it he sees everything that he had never seen before. (STEWE-2) Mildred only watches tv and does not care to try and read …show more content…
(STEWE-1)”But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a tv parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes!”(80). Faber is telling Montag that once a person steps inside of technology, the technology takes them and attaches them to tv. (STEWE-2)”He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors”(133). Montag has left his society and he now feels as if he was living inside a play with many actors. (SIP-B) Since Montag has kept away from the technology around him he has been healed. (STEWE-1)”He stared at the parlor that was dead and gray as the waters of an ocean that might teem with life if they switched on the electric sun”(69). Montag has never really cared about technology but he knew that if you started to watch tv that your life will soon revolve around it. ”Going away from people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper”(134). Montag knows that the people in his society were inhuman. Montag has been able to get away from the technology in the world that he has human emotions and
(MIP-1) Technology is everywhere and the characters in the book live and survive on technology.
(MIP-2) People become so involved in technology that they become inhuman.
(MIP-3) People who step away from technology gain real emotions and memories.
(AGG) In Fahrenheit 451 there are many types of technology that are used everyday such as tv’s, earbuds, long billboards and mechanical hounds. (BS-1)People become so involved in technology that it gets rid of their human emotions. (BS-2)People become so involved in technology that …show more content…
(SIP-A)The characters in the story use technology for everything. (STEWE-1) The firemen use the Mechanical Hound to help them with their job, they are using technology. ”The Mechanical hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse”(21-22). The firemen use the hound to help sniff out people who have books and kill them. (STEWE-2) Mildred thinks that she has a great life by overdosing on sleeping pills.”This machine pumped all of the blood from the body and replaced it with fresh blood and serum”(12). Since Mildred constantly is taking sleeping pills she is being cleaned out by machines and is given clean,fresh blood. This also shows that she has no feelings in her heart for anyone she can just be cleaned out. (SIP-B) Montag has been around technology his whole life that he wants to explore the outside world and read books. (STEWE-1) When Montag was floating down the river he realizes what he has been missing out on. ”There must have been a billion leaves on the land; he waded in them, a dry river smelling of hot cloves and warm dust”(137). Montag has been involved in so much technology over the period of his life that when he steps out of it he sees everything that he had never seen before. (STEWE-2) Mildred only watches tv and does not care to try and read …show more content…
(STEWE-1)”But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a tv parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes!”(80). Faber is telling Montag that once a person steps inside of technology, the technology takes them and attaches them to tv. (STEWE-2)”He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors”(133). Montag has left his society and he now feels as if he was living inside a play with many actors. (SIP-B) Since Montag has kept away from the technology around him he has been healed. (STEWE-1)”He stared at the parlor that was dead and gray as the waters of an ocean that might teem with life if they switched on the electric sun”(69). Montag has never really cared about technology but he knew that if you started to watch tv that your life will soon revolve around it. ”Going away from people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper”(134). Montag knows that the people in his society were inhuman. Montag has been able to get away from the technology in the world that he has human emotions and