Are We Turning Into Fahrenheit 451 Quote Analysis

Are We Turning Into Fahrenheit 451? Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian fantasy, meaning that the book describes an imaginary world where people lead dehumanizing and often fearful lives. The author, Ray Bradbury, wrote the book describing how he believes the world will be in the future. I believe that modern society is similar to how he predicted it to be. Fahrenheit 451 is similar to modern society because there are bombings and/or surprise attacks, large numbers of citizens overdose every year, and citizens are becoming more reliant on technology. Surprise bombings and/or attacks are something predicted in the book and related to modern society. An example from the book is, “Perhaps the bombs were there, and the jets, ten miles, five miles, one mile up, for the sowing hand, and the bombs drifting with dreadful swiftness, yet sudden slowness, down upon the morning city they had left behind.” (Bradbury 151). In the book, the main character Montag is watching as a bomb came and crashed down on his city. An example from modern society would be “It was a day of indelible images — apocalyptic, surreal, violent, ghostly, both monumental and profoundly personal. Wrenching to remember. Impossible to forget.” This quote is talking about the tragic events that happened on 9/11. In both the book and in modern society, many bystanders watched as there was a

In the book for example it says, “ We get these cases nine or ten a night. Got so many, starting a few years ago, we had the special machines built.”(Bradbury 13). The medics are talking about how many overdoses they see in a day and the equipment built to handle them. Otherwise, in modern society, a quote says “Overall, drug overdose deaths rose from 2019 to 2021 with more than 106,000 drug overdose deaths reported in 2021.” In the book, there are many overdoses just on a daily, and in modern society the overdose rates are very