Fahrenheit 451 Research Paper

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Fahrenheit 451’s world is a heartless, dangerous society where people try to crash cars into one another’s for entertainment. Modern-Day is scarily transforming into this world, although the society has some differences . The world of Fahrenheit 451 and the United States share technology addiction and violence, however they also differ on family values. First of all, Fahrenheit 451’s world and United States is equally addicted to technology. For example, as Montag asks Mildred to turn off the parlor, Mildred says that the tv characters are“ my family.” (Bradbury, 46) This means that if Mildred had time to develop a ‘family’ on the parlor, imagine how much time she spent talking to them and going on the television. Mildred is addicted to the point where she cannot shut the parlor off for just a moment, and she can’t even do it for her own husband. Similarly to Modern-Day society where in one day, “...teens in the United States spend about nine hours using media…” (www.cnn.com). As a result, …show more content…

For example, Clarisse says that she’s afraid of people her own age because “six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car wrecks.”(Bradbury, 27). This means that in the world she lives in, violence is overwhelming since all 16 of Clarisse's friends got killed. If Clarisse new 16 people who died imagine how many died from violence in other areas. Furthermore, in Modern day United States, school shootings are occurring more often, in a recent Florida school shooting, the “Sheriff's Office identified the 17 victims…”(www.cnn.com). This proves that in just one shooting, 17 died that day. Modern day has gotten to the point that even students are killing one another, and many people have lost their lives from this outbreak. Therefore Fahrenheit 451’s life compared to Modern-Day United States both have complications with

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