The book, Fahrenheit 451 takes placed around the 24th century where technology controls our everyday lives and books are thought of as bad things because it opens our minds. This book takes place in the future, there is a chance that we might end up relying on technology more than we rely on our self. The society in Fahrenheit 451 is very similar to ours, technology has taken over and made society very close-minded. Technology makes you see what you want to see, not what is real. People don’t want to remove their eyes from large TV screens to see why things happen, and to notice all the little things in life. Another good example of how technology is reducing the amount of communication is how Mildred has replaced her actual family with her “TV family.” Mildred is addicted to watching TV on her parlor walls. She spends most of her day interacting and watching with the parlor walls and telling her friends about it. It helps her not have to think about her life and how sad she is.” Will you turn the parlor off?’ he asked. That’s my family (Bradbury 48-49). Montag calls the characters “The family,” because she cares for them, and because she spends a lot of time watching it. …show more content…
Montag states “One time as a child, in a power failure, his mother had found and lit a last candle and there had been a brief hour of rediscovery, of such illumination that space lost its vast dimensions and drew comfortably around them, and they, mother and son, alone, transformed, hoping that the power might not come on again too soon..." (7) The meaning of this Montag’s happiness and need to escape his society. When he remembered about the candle his mother lit made him miss the past. Soon people will be looking into technology in every part of their