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Technology In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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Technology, it provides entertainment and something to do, but if you get too attached to it, you won’t notice anything else, but it, this is what happened to the society in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The society in this book is so attached and addicted to technology that, that’s all they care for. The technology has affected the society’s way of life and has turned it into a way that is filled with distractions. The society can be and is much more healthier, when they don’t have the technology. This society in Fahrenheit 451 is deeply affected by the technology they have.

The society has become so attached to the technology that, that's all they care about. They are so attached to technology, that to them the technology …show more content…

Montag is sick and the parlor is disturbing him and he asks Mildred to turn it off, but Mildred doesn’t because she thinks of it as a family. Because everyone uses technology, that's all they start to care about. Mildred won't even turn off her parlor when Montag, her husband, asked her to when he was sick because Mildred has been attached to it for a long time, that now it feels like the one and only family that she has ever had. When the firefighters came to Montag’s home to burn it down, Mildred immediately fled and her reaction was, “Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone, everything, …show more content…

People who aren’t distracted by or addicted to technology know things that others don’t. When Montag visited Faber to have him, teach him about books Faber said, “It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books” (Bradbury 78). Faber is able to teach and help Montag learn and understand more about books. This is because he doesn’t care about technology and he doesn’t use it all the time. He hasn’t let technology distract him from important things, things like the three things he believes that the society is missing which are, the quality of information, le suite to digest it, and the right to carry out actions based off the interactions with the first two. When Montag learned that Granger and the other men used to be firefighters, Granger told him his story, “We’re used to that. We all made the right kind of mistakes, or we wouldn’t be here. When we were separate individuals, all we had was rage. I struck a fireman when came to burn my library years ago. I’ve been running ever since” (Bradbury 143). Granger was able to know that books aren’t bad and that the society’s way of life is wrong, because he didn’t let the technology distract him. He wasn’t addicted to it and still isn’t, he doesn’t let the technology waste his time and he doesn’t let it keep him from the rest of the world. Without technology

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