People want technology to evolve. They say that technology will help us in many different ways, one of them being that it will be able to fight the global warming that we humans caused. Now, how will technology fight something that was the effect of technology itself? Ray Bradbury expressed how he was afraid of how fast technology was developing and warned us in many of his books. One of those books is Fahrenheit 451, a science fiction novel, that is about how technology was able to blind humans into becoming obsessed with it. In the book, society is obsessed with technology, and the protagonist Montag is willing to risk everything since he had lost his loved ones already, to fight for the rights of books and knowledge. Humans invent new …show more content…
In the case of allusions, they don’t make the reader feel a certain way as allusions are there to enhance the quality of the text. An allusion is a powerful rhetorical device as it is straightforward and tends to clarify something that you may not understand in the text. It gives the reader a deeper understanding of what the author is trying to say by making a reference to something or someone well-known. In the book Fahrenheit 451, there are some examples of allusions being used as Ray Bradbury wants us to understand what he is trying to convey. For example, at the end of Fahrenheit 451, Montag brings up something from the book of Revelation when it says “And on either side of either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manners of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations”(165). He quotes a section of the book specifically as a way of saying that on the other side of the river, they will find the rebirth of a new nation that will heal from its past. Montag wants to say this book to the people when they arrive as he wants them to know that everything will be reborn in a better way where they won’t get attached to technology. The country will come together to see life and the opportunities nature has to