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How Does Montag's Society Focus On Material

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(AGG)Montag’s society focuses too much on materials and less on what is happening outside, being focused on materials causes them to not pay attention to anything else.(BS-1)Montag’s society has a lot of materials and people are way too focused on them.(BS-2)The people in society pay attention to technology and materials more than anything else.(BS-3)People in society can’t live without materials because they think they absolutely need them and others don’t care about materials.(TS)The people in Montag’s society should focus less on materials and more on people around them, one of Bradbury’s messages was too not focus so much on materials.

(MIP-1)Montag’s society has a lot of materials and people are too focused on them.(SIP-A)Montag’s society is so obsessed with items …show more content…

(STEWE-2) Everybody in the society just sits watches or listens to either the seashell radio or their TV." And in her ears the little seashells the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind."(10) This quote shows that all they want to do is sit and watch tv nothing else. They show materialism through doing nothing but that. (SIP-B) People in Montag’s society can’t go anywhere without watching something or paying attention to something.(STEWE-1) Montag shows some materialism too. Montag’s house gets burned down by Beatty and all he notice was the materials burnt into ashes. "He stepped into the bedroom and fired twice and the twin beds went up in a great simmering whisper, with more heat and passion and light than he would have supposed them to contain. He burnt the bedroom walls an the cosmetics chest because he wanted to change everything, the chairs, the tables, and the dining the silverware and plastic dishes, everything that showed that he had lived here in this empty house with a strange woman

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