Examples Of Technology In Fahrenheit 451

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In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury written during the early 1950’s and set in an unspecified dystopian world, Ray Bradbury presents a novel of one man, Guy Montag, who wants to read everything. However, owning books is illegal, especially for him because he is a fireman who are supposed to burn all books. Ray Bradbury writes about a world where free thinking is out of the ordinary. Guy goes on a huge journey of free will and knowledge. Firemen represent model citizens in the novel in order to explain how society is supposed to react to books or anything. Bradbury brings up firemen multiple times , like when Guy shows his wife all the books he has collected over the past year. When he does this his boss captain Beatty shows up who is a firemen. …show more content…
just like in fahrenheit 451 ,Guy and his wife live in a small normal suburb . but inside there is nothing traditional. they have three tv walls called relatives. power is confused sometimes with a who has the most technology inside their home contest. in school you are taught to not have any human interaction if you do you are most likely killed. clarise was a girl who was brought up in what she thinks is the wrong time period for her. montag says “no the same girl McClellan. McClellan . run over by a car…” clarissa describes herself as extraordinary. but because of that she was killed.books and technology go hand in hand , but they are also some of the most destructive things in the world if mixed. in montag 's society technology is everything you learn in school off of a computer not with interaction. firefighters have some of the most advanced technology in the world. the mechanical hound is one of those technolog is.in the book novels for kids a critic writes that “to an extent clarissa may be said to represent a natural and spontanious preintelectual human being...”(novels for students 139). she was ahead of everyone but held no power. firemen are some of the most powerful intellectual people of this

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