Thought can take time and effort, it can be meticulously simple. Thought can be quick and easy, simply saying the first thing that pops into your mind. Thought can be anything you want, imaginative, serious, etc. In the book Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury shows that everyone is capable of thinking for themselves, some people just don’t want to, or they feel like they don’t have the time. Time is one of the most important things to think, if you don’t have the time to think, you simply won’t. The people in the book Fahrenheit 451 are taught a certain way, where they don’t have time to think, they just have to answer. Time is money, so they try not to waste it thinking. “You laugh when I haven’t been funny and … you never stop to think what
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Clarisse is a very big example of free thought in Fahrenheit 451. “The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike all around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies, I’ll show you my collection sometime.” (Bradbury 23). People may have the right to free thought, but not many of them exercise that right. When one person thinks for themselves it kind of influences the people around them as well. “They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won’t tell them what. I’ve got them running. And sometimes, I tell them I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you tried it?” (Bradbury 23). Clarisse, being how she is, being ‘weird’, she makes people think. She makes them think about how weird she is, they become curious as to what she does and why she does it. It only takes one seed to start a forest, Clarisse is a seed of …show more content…
In Fahrenheit 451 people have their parlor walls yelling things at them, entertaining them for hours. “‘Will you turn the parlor off…’ ‘That’s my family.’” Mildred along with many other TV wall owners consider the people on them ‘family’ because they often act how members of a family would (Bradbury 49). The people on the walls feed them information about life, and about their lives, just like friends or family would. Everyone watches the walls, everyone has those ‘friends’ to listen to. “Couldn’t you get the shows in your own parlor?” Mildred went to a friend’s house just to watch the walls some more, to watch with her real friends (Bradbury 50). The way they’re taught in school they’re taught to watch the walls. People in Fahrenheit 451 do what they are taught, they don’t want to try anything different. They don’t think any different from each other, they all are driven for the same
Clarisse is a very big example of free thought in Fahrenheit 451. “The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike all around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies, I’ll show you my collection sometime.” (Bradbury 23). People may have the right to free thought, but not many of them exercise that right. When one person thinks for themselves it kind of influences the people around them as well. “They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won’t tell them what. I’ve got them running. And sometimes, I tell them I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you tried it?” (Bradbury 23). Clarisse, being how she is, being ‘weird’, she makes people think. She makes them think about how weird she is, they become curious as to what she does and why she does it. It only takes one seed to start a forest, Clarisse is a seed of …show more content…
In Fahrenheit 451 people have their parlor walls yelling things at them, entertaining them for hours. “‘Will you turn the parlor off…’ ‘That’s my family.’” Mildred along with many other TV wall owners consider the people on them ‘family’ because they often act how members of a family would (Bradbury 49). The people on the walls feed them information about life, and about their lives, just like friends or family would. Everyone watches the walls, everyone has those ‘friends’ to listen to. “Couldn’t you get the shows in your own parlor?” Mildred went to a friend’s house just to watch the walls some more, to watch with her real friends (Bradbury 50). The way they’re taught in school they’re taught to watch the walls. People in Fahrenheit 451 do what they are taught, they don’t want to try anything different. They don’t think any different from each other, they all are driven for the same