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Fahrenheit 451 Compared To Today

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Fahrenheit 451 is a book written by Ray Bradbury in 1953. This book has a powerful message for readers today because of the similarities this novel has with our world. Some people may argue that this book has only differences in our world and not similarities. However, similarities also happen in novels. The characters of this book are Guy Montag, Mildred Montag, Clarisse McClellan, and Stoneman. One way this novel’s world compares to our world is the way the technology is advancing. For example, it says ”How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall tv put in? It’s only two thousand dollars. That’s a third of my yearly pay”. This means that they would really want a tv entertainment and they would take away a third of yearly salary for entertainment. Some televisions are …show more content…

For example on page 53, it says” School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected. Finally almost completely ignoring life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about work, why learn anything, save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?”. This quote means that the novel’s world is only receiving a kindergarten education because only the people that want an actual career go to school like in the novel. Another way this book shows individual rights is when Clarisse gets bullied. She antisocial and she chooses to be like that because according to the book, it says “Being social means enjoying sitting there and not asking questions, then going to the parks to "bully people around, break window panes...wreck cars...race on the streets...shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one another.". This quote shows how Clarisse chooses to be anti-social because kids her age are doing things that get them into trouble. Clarisse has a right to be

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