This discussion was based on three questions: “How does society tackle the subject of death now?”, “Why does the author write about the burning of books and how does it relate to our society today?”, and “What are the similarities and differences between our education now and in the book?”. For the question “How does society tackle the subject of death now?” I was expecting people to have a slightly similar experience to Montag. Like how we hear about people in our neighborhoods dying and though we feel bad for a moment, we don't really feel bad because we know them, we expect to feel bad when someone dies. Even though to us, like Mildred was to Montag, they were strangers. But it was the opposite, people saw this question, that's kind of like how the world inside the book is different from our own. They believed that we made connections that the people in the book didn't. Which allowed us to take def a bit more seriously and personally. And although the responses were different from what I expected, I was pleased with the results. …show more content…
The question of “why did the author write about the burning of books and how it relates to our society today?” But my first take on it was that. Society has started becoming more censored, especially with the development of technology. And despite being more connected than ever. We still have these gaps of understanding due to censorship. I also felt that the author writes about book burning to show how easy it is for people to erase history and its effect on people. The reason why he probably chose to burn books could probably be due to how new the Internet was at the time. though it existed it wasn't as prominent nor as efficient as it is today, he probably saw the Internet is something that would distract people from