Imagine the world without books - even worse, imagine that everything you did read is unimportant and irrelevant. Books encourage conversation, spark controversy, and forge friendships and relationships between peoples. But why do we read books? Why not leave the old dusty tomes to rot because they are “old” or “irrelevant and filled with nonsense”? In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury outlines the 3 reasons why a society would forsake the written word and instead adopt lives talking to strangers that don’t care about you. Guy Montag has the profession of a fireman; the profession of burning books and any homes suspected of housing them to the ashes, as literature now exists in the scripts of movies and screenplays; any other form was banned for
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They have free time, but instead of seeking knowledge they “drive a hundred miles an hour, at a clip where you can 't think of anything else but the danger… playing some game or sitting in some room where you can 't argue with the four-wall televisor” (Bradbury, 38). Books have to read and analyzed, which takes up time, but these other pastimes are instant. When someone tells you something you don’t analyze their words sentence by sentence, word by word, you just accept it as truth because it happens so quickly. They are too concerned with the reckless danger and their meaningless conversations with strangers to think an original thought. We especially see this problem with Montag’s wife, she is always preoccupied with her “family” in the televisor rooms and when he tries to get her to read she would rather be talking about nothing important to people she does not care about. This kind of conditioning makes drones of people; scores of people who act alike, think alike, and do the same things, accepting the rules of society without question or thought, and not even being taught how to, anymore. Individual ideas and beliefs are now frowned upon, and lives are spent in televisor rooms, the street, or - well nowhere else,
They have free time, but instead of seeking knowledge they “drive a hundred miles an hour, at a clip where you can 't think of anything else but the danger… playing some game or sitting in some room where you can 't argue with the four-wall televisor” (Bradbury, 38). Books have to read and analyzed, which takes up time, but these other pastimes are instant. When someone tells you something you don’t analyze their words sentence by sentence, word by word, you just accept it as truth because it happens so quickly. They are too concerned with the reckless danger and their meaningless conversations with strangers to think an original thought. We especially see this problem with Montag’s wife, she is always preoccupied with her “family” in the televisor rooms and when he tries to get her to read she would rather be talking about nothing important to people she does not care about. This kind of conditioning makes drones of people; scores of people who act alike, think alike, and do the same things, accepting the rules of society without question or thought, and not even being taught how to, anymore. Individual ideas and beliefs are now frowned upon, and lives are spent in televisor rooms, the street, or - well nowhere else,