Ray Bradbury pg 21-22 “You’re not like others. I’ve seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me. No one has time any more for anyone else.”
Pg. 55 “She didn’t want to know how a thing was done, but why... You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed”
Bradbury is approaching what he thinks would happen if books were outlawed. Three major things:
People only have time for themselves “You’re not like others. I’ve seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me. No one has time any more for anyone else.”
People aren’t creative and curious
“She didn’t want to know how a thing was done, but why... You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed”
People lose emotion for other people
What would happen without school? What if no one cared about education? What if learning didn’t exist? What if there were no books and how would society react to it? Ray Bradbury tries to predict the outcome of such a society in Fahrenheit 451. The story follows a man named Guy …show more content…
With no books around, people don’t ask questions. They tend to be content with not knowing because they don’t know better. Bradbury tells us that an uninquiring mind is unfruitful in progressing humanity in a better direction by the sentence dictation. To the speaker in this quote, inquiring is viewed as not satisfying and even dangerous. Bradbury wants to think what this type of mentality would accomplish, which is nothing. Warning us that this mentality is unhelpful to humanity is this quote’s underlying
Pg. 55 “She didn’t want to know how a thing was done, but why... You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed”
Bradbury is approaching what he thinks would happen if books were outlawed. Three major things:
People only have time for themselves “You’re not like others. I’ve seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me. No one has time any more for anyone else.”
People aren’t creative and curious
“She didn’t want to know how a thing was done, but why... You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed”
People lose emotion for other people
What would happen without school? What if no one cared about education? What if learning didn’t exist? What if there were no books and how would society react to it? Ray Bradbury tries to predict the outcome of such a society in Fahrenheit 451. The story follows a man named Guy …show more content…
With no books around, people don’t ask questions. They tend to be content with not knowing because they don’t know better. Bradbury tells us that an uninquiring mind is unfruitful in progressing humanity in a better direction by the sentence dictation. To the speaker in this quote, inquiring is viewed as not satisfying and even dangerous. Bradbury wants to think what this type of mentality would accomplish, which is nothing. Warning us that this mentality is unhelpful to humanity is this quote’s underlying