Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: The Illustrated Man

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“You can't stop the future. You can't rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret...is to press the button to play.” Yet, here we are in the present thinking about how small the world seems, but due to the ripple effects of little things, it makes everything extraordinary. Ever since, the mind existed, we human beings have always imagined living in a society where technology would be exceptional. Some have gone as far as recording these predictions through the works of fiction, which is known predominantly as science fiction. Today, work of science fiction doesn’t shows us what we should expect in the future, but it instead shows that we have an endless amount of possibilities. One writer, Ray Bradbury was able to present these ideas through his work, such as The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit …show more content…
Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois, to Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, an electrical expert for power and phone utilities, and Ester Moberg Bradbury, a Swedish foreigner. According to www.biography.com, as a young child, Bradbury had a delightful childhood in Waukegan, where he grew up loving the idea of magic and reading stories that incorporated the genres of adventure and fantasy fiction. By the time Ray was 12, he decided he wanted to become a writer, because his memory would last through his works of fiction. Then, his family moved to Los Angeles, in 1934 and he joined the drama club where he became friends with Hollywood celebrities. Once he graduated high school, he wasn't able to afford to go to college, so he spent three days a week at his local library for ten years. He would sell newspapers to support his writing career and

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