Fahrenheit 451

It’s evident that humanity has achieved seemingly impossible feats through technology and inventions; yet, it’s equally clear that technology can be a mindless distraction from unavoidable life issues that individuals try to escape. Though technology was intended for good, something people can benefit from, it’s become a quick escape for people so that they may easily sit and drool before a colored screen instead of applying themselves to something meaningful. Television and social media has hindered humanity because of its uselessness. It is an unnecessary addition to people’s daily routine that ultimately allows people to pretend to be involved in society, but in reality it creates a means to evade responsibility and endeavors.

Fahrenheit 451 is a classic book written by Ray Bradbury. It contains 249 pages. The book opens up to a futuristic society (dystopian setting) and introduces the main character to the audience by the name Guy Montag. Guy is the novel’s protagonist who works in the fire department and specializes in burning books. Other main characters include Captain Beatty; the head fireman in charge of Guy, Mildred Montag; Guy’s bland, stereotypical housewife who is obsessed with keeping to the status quo; Clarisse McClellan, Guy’s young neighbor who is a deep lover of nature; and finally Professor Faber who becomes a very important character later on in the plotline.

Choosing to be your own person rather than being like everyone else can feel empowering after a struggle. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, reading books is a crime. A “criminal” who is caught reading a book goes to jail and the fire department has to burn the book. After Montag, a firefighter, finds himself ignoring rules, he is caught by his chief and is forced to run away, in search of new books and people who understand him. After he finds a group of retired professors.

(MIP) This meme focuses on one of the key messages conveyed by the government in Fahrenheit 451, that books should be avoided and people should not read them. (SIP A) The Government trying to persuade people away from books, is a key implication in both, Fahrenheit 451 and this meme. (STEWE 1) When Clarisse McClellan encounters Montag for the first time, she seems to be hypnotized by the Salamander symbol on his jacket. As she starts to ask questions, she asks, “Do you ever read any of the books you burn ?”

Did Ray Bradbury write Fahrenheit 451 to warn people of the consequences we can encounter if we burn books? I wonder if he wrote it as a warning of what we can face in the future if we rely more on technology rather than books. I believe he wanted us to understand that books serve an important purpose in our lives and removing them can affect everybody as a society. Bradbury wanted us to understand that books are knowledge, they are power and without them, us as humans would lose a part of us. He also set a warning of what he thinks would happen if we keep getting led on by technology.

In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, books are banned from society as they fear it can cause outburst or issues with minorities. When Montag asked Beatty about the restriction on books, Beatty points out that “things began to have mass”(Bradbury, 54). Beatty believes as their society begin to produce more entertainment and technology, books have become more obsolete and useless. He also argues that mass media and technology have made things simpler such as resolving conflict due to illiteracy and lack of education. As Montag tries to hide the book from Mildred and Beatty, Beatty mentions that “we must be alike”(Bradbury, 58).

Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury is a compelling novel that takes place in a dystopian futuristic setting. In Fahrenheit 451 the twenty-first-century government wanted all books, paper products, documentaries, and any other sources of learning, especially about the past, to vanish. The government did not want any citizens remembering the past because it held dark, mysterious memories. Secondly, in the past people were different than they are now. People in the past looked, acted, and their personalities were all unique to themselves.

The scenario depicted in Ray Bradbury's story; There Will Come Soft Rain is one of destruction. The chilling message, underlined by the irony of robots, is that our society focuses its scientific and intellect on the wrong applications.

The poem and the book are similar about the fact that things will still go on even if mankind wipes itself out. For example, in the book the house was the main character. In the story a bomb went off and there were no humans just the house. The house still worked but no one used the house, the house just did the usual thing like make dinner for no one, keep the house clean etc. It keeps going until it ketches on fire and tries to get the fire

There Will Come Soft Rains Ray Bradbury foreshadows the materialistic outcome of the world in the future through his work There Will Come Soft Rains that results from the greed of humanity. Ray uses foreshadowing by telling his readers what he believes will be the future of the world through the voice of an empty house. Ray uses this story to portray his darker feelings on what he thinks people are doing to this earth. The main reason Ray wrote this story is to show that people may be the cause of this world ending. Most Christians believe that God will destroy the earth with fire because of man’s disobedience.

We see some more foreshadowing and symbolism in the story when "The empty chairs faced each other between the silent walls, and the music played.... the house began to die" (Bradbury). The music playing and the chairs facing the walls (as an act of respect) symbolized an atmosphere of a funeral which foreshadowed the "death" of the house. Suddenly, nature's fury physically attacks the house: "The wind blew. A falling tree bough crashed through the kitchen window" (Bradbury).

In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the protagonist Guy Montag undergoes a significant transformation throughout the course of the novel. At the beginning of the story, Montag is a loyal and content member of a society in which books are banned and critical thinking is discouraged. However, as the story progresses, Montag begins to question the society in which he lives and the role he plays in it, ultimately leading to his rejection of the status quo and embracing individuality. At the start of the novel, Montag is portrayed as a "mechanical Hound" (Bradbury, 17) who blindly follows the rules and regulations of his society.

On page two of the story, the author states that “... in a city of rubble and ashes. This was the one house left standing.” All of the houses in the city had been demolished by something. This something had to be powerful enough to burn and char everything in its path for the author also states, “... the charred west side where the house had been burned evenly free of its white paint . . . the entire west face of the house was black.”

He adds to the idea of personification by letting the readers in on the House’s fear of death in the following quote: “The house tried to save itself. (Bradbury 31)” by shutting its windows tightly to starve the fire and keep it from burning the house down. In this scene, it forgets all other things and concentrates simply on stifling out the fire to save itself. The emotional connection created with both these lines is meant to let the readers believe that life has not changed so much that humans no longer have a place on Earth anymore, even if it is emphasized that Mankind has deserted the planet long ago. Humans’ desires to be remembered are prominent in the human-like traits granted to technology and how they are played with in the

Blank, grey eyes stare back at the TV walls set up around their homes, forgetting about time, watching people slaughter each other on the bright, lit up screen. Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451, uses extremely advanced devices to help capture the point of the story. Seashells, reality TV, and other TV programs help him to jab at the injury caused by focusing on the wrong kinds of media in the society. Bradbury suggests media can be a fantastic outlet for entertainment, but when used incorrectly, people’s nature can become violent and poisonous; therefore, he implies that entire societies can collapse when media becomes twisted. To begin, one of the poisonous forms of media are the mindless TV shows put on by the government, which highlight