In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the author predicted a future full of negativity along with carelessness which is shown by the teenagers in the novel that have meaningless conversation, are overly judgemental, get into trouble, and are consumed by their technology exactly like the teenagers of the current world. From the beginning, the readers can detect that Bradbury is showing his concerns for society by making it easy for them to see the similarities between the two like when Clarisse is discussing the conversations she has heard while observing at the subway or somewhere else. She notes that all of what she has heard is exactly the same -- each one is about nothing. No moments shared between one another are deep at all, skimming the shallow edge of things.
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Plus, similar behavior is exhibited through other actions such as robbery. In the novel, it seems as if a large portion of these “young adults” cause disruption, some of which Clarisse notices. She admits that she acts older in a way sometimes because of her views of how wrong these offenses are and is even “afraid of children [her] own age” (27). She lives in a world where such a fear is driven into her, not veering far from how some currently live. So many horrible events occur that it is hard to focus on anything worthwhile, giving power to negativity since it is much more commonplace in both the novel and real life. Not only do people not want to be friends with her, but she doesn’t really want to be friends with them because she is too scared. Currently, life is like that too because no other teenagers can be trusted considering some of the disasters that have taken place. Lastly, it can be inferred that teenagers get lost in the world of technology which is evident with the wall-to-wall circuit. Mildred takes part in this, so using the clues on technology up to this point, it can be inferred that some of the teenagers do,
Plus, similar behavior is exhibited through other actions such as robbery. In the novel, it seems as if a large portion of these “young adults” cause disruption, some of which Clarisse notices. She admits that she acts older in a way sometimes because of her views of how wrong these offenses are and is even “afraid of children [her] own age” (27). She lives in a world where such a fear is driven into her, not veering far from how some currently live. So many horrible events occur that it is hard to focus on anything worthwhile, giving power to negativity since it is much more commonplace in both the novel and real life. Not only do people not want to be friends with her, but she doesn’t really want to be friends with them because she is too scared. Currently, life is like that too because no other teenagers can be trusted considering some of the disasters that have taken place. Lastly, it can be inferred that teenagers get lost in the world of technology which is evident with the wall-to-wall circuit. Mildred takes part in this, so using the clues on technology up to this point, it can be inferred that some of the teenagers do,