Explanation In Fahrenheit 451, By Ray Bradbury

As I read this short story, I thought the story was kind of ironic. First ironic explanation was when Bradbury explained that there is only one house left in the city of Allendale, California, "The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes. This was the one house left standing" (Bradbury 1). There is only a few silhouettes left, the rest burned off, "The five spots of paint- the man, the woman, the children, the ball - remained. The rest was a thin charcoaled layer" (Bradbury 1). I thought that the silhouette could possibly refer to the people who live in the house and the rest charcoaled layer could refer to the people who died in the town from fire. Another ironic explanation was, ". . . the stove was making pancakes which filled the

The dirty dishes were dropped into a hot washer and emerged twinkling dry" (Bradbury 1). As I read the two story, the two sentences gave me a thought of maybe there is no one in the house. Also I got to think that maybe all the household appliances could be some kind of machines or robots that work without any human work done. Another clue that hints the household appliances in the house are robotic was, "Out of warrens in the wall, tiny robot mice darted" (Bradbury 1). Bradbury clearly says that even mice are robotic. Then, "A dog whined, shivering, . . . The front door recognized the dog voice and opened. The dog, once large and fleshy, but now gone to bone and covered with sores, moved in and through the house, tracking

I liked how he said there was no more water left due to the regulated usage in page 3, "But too late. Somewhere, sighing, a pump shrugged to a stop. The quenching rain ceased. The reserve water supply which filled the baths and washed the dishes for many quiet days was gone", but baths and dish washing processes were not ordered by humans, possibly the owners of the house and they were just another examples of automated and robotic actions. One interesting description in the story was, "In the kitchen, an instant before the rain of fire and timber, the stove could be seen making breakfasts at a psychopathic rate, ten dozen eggs, six loaves of toast, twenty dozen bacon strips, which , eaten by fire, started the stove working again,hysterically hissing" (Bradbury 4), which terrified me a little, but allowed me to think deeper in to the meaning of the sentence. The stove cooks breakfast even during the fire, automatically because it thinks that the human has set fire on to cook and eat food. Here, Bradbury Bradbury shows how much the house is full of automated