Fahrenheit 451 Analysis

Envision a world that is so structured and censored that fireman exist not to fight fire but instead burn books. In Fahrenheit 451 this is the reality of the citizens that live in this time. In the book not many people realize that every story has a writer but think that it is just mindless words that mean absolutely nothing. Throughout the story books are looked at as dangerous, therefore, they burn every book they can get their hands on. Everyone in life is affected by media just like in Fahrenheit 451. Media tells them to just go along without questioning it such as books.
Throughout the book you learn that in the future books are looked at as dangerous and mindless. Fire fighters “protect” society from there mindless pages by burning all books. While talking to Montage Captain Beatty states, “…The books say nothing, nothing you can teach or believe.”(59). Captain Beatty was explaining to Montage that every fire fighter gets the urge to read a book from time to time. He admits that even he has read a couple in his lifetime but they have nothing to teach us and that taking a book is mere curiosity rather that the urge to learn something. The main question in this book is why fire fighters ignite fires instead of putting them out. People have fire proof houses so that things around them don’t catch on fire and the only thing that fire fighters have to worry about are the extermination of books. Fire fighters are not there to fight fire but are there to fight book. In this society you are taught to not question anything and accept what you are told and this will lead to a better, happier life. The only person that questions the way the fire station works in Clarisse and in the book they depict her as a depressed youn...

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...than thinking differently of them. Another difference is that books equal knowledge. It is said that the more you read the more knowledge you attain. In Fahrenheit 451 books are looked at as dangerous and they hold nothing but mindless words. In the future I do think that our society could become like theirs because media does affect us in the same way it affects them. Media affects what we do such as our appearance, our attitude, and other aspects of our life. Though this society is farfetched there could still be a chance that we could become like them.
Mass media controls the public like puppets. It affects everything a person does with their lives. Just like in Fahrenheit 451 we live in a society of fantasizers. We believe what the media tells us and to not question it but just go along with it. Media is everywhere whether we are aware of it or not.