Change In Fahrenheit 451, By Ray Bradbury

Countless themes were present in the book Fahrenheit 451. One of the more prominent, however, is the theme of conformity. There are several examples of this in the novel, such as the government changing history so that people don’t question the firefighters and go against the flow. Also, all throughout the book, the government is causing people to think the same way and conform to the way the government wants them to be through the television and seashell radio. Another example is conformity being forced on the citizens by the mechanical hound and the severe punishments for not following the rules.

A group of kids were driving recklessly and almost killed Montag solely for the sake of pleasure: For no reason at all in the world, they would have killed me” (Bradbury, 122). The loss of innocent lives is seen time and time again in our world today. Violence is increasing at rapid rates in our

All throughout the world today crime spreads but more specifically,murder. The number of deaths by murder increase every single year. For example, the FBI has stated that from 2015 to 2016 murder increased by 1.9 percent. Just like in Richard connell's story “The Most Dangerous game,” where One of the main characters, General Zaroff, kills more and more people as each day breaks dawn. The Everyone in this gruesome world should have more hope and trust in themselves that the numbers with decrease in the near coming future.

The book i am responding to is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In Fahrenheit 451, there is a particular event in the book that rather shocked me. In section 1, from pages 33 to 37, Montag and his fire crew get a call to an elderly womans house in the middle of the night to burn her books. The firefighters demand she tell them where the books are and they tear up her house looking for them. What surprises me the most is that the firefighters start the fires and don 't put them out like in our modern day world.

“I’m not thinking. I’m just doing like I’m told, like always” (qtd. In 88). When Guy says this he is becoming aware that in this so called perfect society the government is controlling their minds, which is causing them to not have individual feelings and become adherent to the government and all the idiotic rules that they have. In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, he makes many predictions that are applicable today.

Imagine living in a world where expanding your mind was a crime and frowned upon by every citizen. A world where reading books could get you killed, and a world where TV and electronics took up the oh so wanted chance of sitting down and reading a book that contained stories… and the real truth. Mildred Montag, the wife of a firefighter, let this world engulf her own, affecting her attitude and choices toward others. In 1953, author Ray Bradbury wrote the dystopian and utopian novel, Fahrenheit 451. Guy Montag, a firefighter was taught to disrespect the readers, and to not fall upon this certain group of people.

In 2007, there was a shooting at Virginia Tech University, leading to thirty-three people were killed and fifteen were wounded. Many of the victims were students and shot in dorm and a classroom building. The murderer was senior-level undergraduate student. He was diagnosed with a severe anxiety disorders known as selective autism and major depressive disorders. Most people do not know what guns can cause the world.

In this society, they kill people because the goverment promotes people to kill one another. One of the characters, Clarisse, describes violence and how it is normal in her society. ¨But every one I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one another. Do you notice how people hurt eachother nowadays?¨(Bradbury,27) In the book Fahrenheit 451 when people get bored or sad, they kill people for fun.

The book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, was published in 1953. Fahrenheit 451 has to do with a society that thinks books change your brain in a negative way, and a guy named Montage who is on a mission to change and spread the word that books hold valuable knowledge. There are many ways Montage changes from the beginning of the book verses who he is in the end of the book, some of those significant changes are; how he feels toward burning books in the beginning, when he steals the book, and when he runs away to protect the books and meets Granger. The first sentence that shows his character progression is, “It was a pleasure to burn.

People rarely hear or men dying in war but there are constantly deaths regarding suicide. It has become a common situation, “ I've never known any dead man killed in a war. Killed jumping off buildings, yes,” (Bradbury, 91). Suicide ties into the bigger problem that because of all the distractions they aren’t able to take a minute to actually find themselves and see that they are

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While reading the novel Fahrenheit 451, i realized the author, Ray Bradbury described the role of censorship by putting together the personal freedom that one person has, to the freedom of expression that person was giving. Bradbury describes the right of the First Amendment and the rights we have as a human being. The First Amendment is about the freedom of speech that one person has for themselves. Once a man named Justice Holmes, said the meaning of the First amendment was “freedom for what we hate.” A role of censorship was played by sending a very direct or forward message that tells readers what may or may not happen if they allow the government to take control of what they do or do not read.

In this world technology has taken over the society and sometimes even destroyed humanity on its own. In Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury reveals how humanity and technology have taken over its time. In the book he proclaims how everyone turns against one another. He describes life at that time, which is based in the future as in black and white. In the passage if they don’t agree with a person or their beliefs and lifestyle they automatically plan to get rid of them with numerous pieces of technology.

Annotated Works Cited Eller, Edward E. " An overview of Fahrenheit 451. " Literature Resource Center. Detroit: Gale, 2014.

Essay 3: Dead or Alive In the essay The Fourth State of Matter, a tragedy has occurred at Jo Ann Beard’s work .Gang Lu, a physicist, shot six co-workers out of spite and took his own life because he felt guilty. According to The Pro Quest Staff, each year in the United States thousands of teens commit suicide. Gun control measures are not answer to preventing mass shootings; it all comes down to a choice, bad mental state of mind, and the outcome that can affect many lives by one action.