Edgar Ray Killen

known for his many short stories, some of which have been described as prophetic. It was Ray Bradbury who conceived Bluetooth headsets half a century before the concept was even considered possible and not sci fi, this is true with facebook, flat screen tvs, self driving cars, electronic surveillance, ATMs and artificial intelligence, but even these give just a small experience of the prognostication of ray bradbury. He also conceptualized mass surveillance, technological control and accentuated…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like without books? If so then read this book to get a feel for what is could be like without them. This book is in a world where there is no books or a lot of knowledge. The reason why is because there is no way for people to learn anything that you could learn from books. The point the author is trying to get by this is that we need books to learn, and that actions have consequences. Radbury wanted the readers to imagine what it would be like in a world…

After reading the book "The Giver", I think the community in the book is a very bad society. Yes it is a dystopian society. The people in the society live in a dehumanize society and also the people are afraid of the world outside. Citizen live in a dehumanized society. The people in that community can not make their own decisions, only the Chief Elder can make the decisions for them. The citizen doesn't order their own food. The people also don’t know what is music. They can't know any…

It rots the core of the perfect world, transforming from utopia to a dystopia, “no matter how much engineering and conditioning is put forth society remains the same” (Firchow 9). A community can be made to look as pure as possible, but mankind will always be there and always be flawed. The illusion of perfection is perpetuated by propaganda. Ironically, propaganda within Brave New World is used to extend the delusion of perfection and to prohibit outside sources from “brainwashing” the masses.…

If you want to save one hundred and twelve minutes of your life and overpriced movie ticket, go onto your laptop and watch the trailer of Fahrenheit 451. In my opinion, it is a lot more exciting than the movie itself. This movie is one of the most pretentious movies I have ever seen. Although there are many aspects of the novel “Fahrenheit 451” which are very significant, Francois depiction of how the events where portrayed in the movie, weakens the message Bradbury was depicting in the novel.…

Kristen D Randle”s “The Only Alien On The Planet” focuses on an intelligent , yet unidentified by it’s “extraterrestrial” behavior boy, believing friendship isn’t neccessary as he ignores everyone that comes his way.Without communication with teachers,friends, nor even his own family, The protagonist of this novel talks about a girl having to exit her comfort zone while moving out of her hometown to a new one.When she catches a glance of this “alien” called Smitty in her new school, she gets…

Interest in dystopian fiction has surged in recent years because of the popularity and astonishing success of dystopian movies such as The Hunger Games (2012), The Divergent (2014) and The Maze Runner (2014). All three movies focus on the struggle of a community which is forced to conform because of a powerful governing system. Individuality as such does not exist due to the restrictions imposed on society. Readers and spectators alike are intrigued by tales of oppressive societies which deal…

during the Roman’s navy attack to the port city of syracuse 2200 years ago. It is illustrated in the reading that the Greeks could not have been using an inventive weapon called ''Burning mirror'' which was a clear surface of cooper to direct the sun's rays towards Roman's ships. In order to question the tale, three different evidence have been provided by the author which the lecturer finds all reasons false and provide solid proofs for each of them. First, the professor claims that, in order…

The knowledge and ideas from books attribute to whom a person becomes. In Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Montag is questioning the way he lives his life. He is a fireman, but he burns books instead of put out fires. Clarisse McClellan plants the seed in his head that there was once a time where people would read books and see everything from the ideas that come from the books, instead of television, that everyone uses now. Montag becomes very curious as to what’s inside these books, so he…

The novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury revolves around a thirty-year-old fireman in the twenty-fourth century, Guy Montage. It introduces a new world in which is mostly controlled by the mass of media, and the censorship has taken over the general population. The individual in that society is not accepted by the government and the retaining knowledge is now considered an outlaw. Television has replaced the common family time like talking to each other to playing a board game. In that society…