How Can Fahrenheit 451 Be Our Future

Can Fahrenheit 451 be our future? It doesn’t seem so deranged as it sounds. Fahrenheit portrays a future where people were highly addicted to technology, they had parlors the size of walls and seashells in their ears all the time. All the excessive entertainment extracts the peoples ability to think for themselves, as we see with Montag struggling to form his own thoughts and ideas. For instance, I think one engrossing topic explored is how a society with technological advances would drift further apart as opposed to becoming more connected with one another. Instead of communicating with someone from a distant part of the world, everyone seems isolated in their own world; not only are the citizens disconnected from the world outside the city

but with the people around them. Ideally, technology would unite us with other cities and countries, we would know of events occuring on the other side of the world within minutes. Likewise, the citizens would be well-informed with access to the resources and information needed to make edcuated decisions and contribute to a better tomorrow.

I have mixed feelings about the end. For one, the book just ended, there was an explosion that destroyed the city and that’s it; I feel like the ending was rushed. Compared to the beginning where events were unfolding slowly, towards the end everything was occuring pretty rapidly, one event after another, which made the novel captivating and interesting. However, I would have liked more elaboration on the survivors, the city, and the war. Although despite the book just abruptly ending, I do like the optimism for a better future the story conveys. It seems like Montag and his new friends were going to rebulid the city by bring back books and their knowledge. Overall, I would recommend this book to others because of the striking similarities to today despite being written sixty five years ago.