Fahrenheit 451 And Ernest Cline's Ready Player One

Over the past several years, the average human attention span has dropped dramatically from 12 seconds to 8 seconds! This is shorter than the attention span of a goldfish. Creators of the entertainment industry should consider this when writing a book or making a movie. Human interests and the way people think have changed over the years. This has led to the evolution of the use of dystopian elements in books, too. Compared to dystopian-element novels in the 1950s, a reader can clearly decipher that current books are much easier to read and way more entertaining than older ones. Based on Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, it is evident that the Dystopian Genre has evolved to accommodate a new audience by using

For example, in the novel Fahrenheit 451, the text states, “He burnt the bedroom walls and the cosmetic chest because he wanted to change everything.” (Bradbury 110). This piece of text uses the vocabulary phrase “cosmetic chest”. People don’t really use this outdated phrase anymore; therefore, teens reading Fahrenheit 451 may not understand what modern-day object this is referring to. Today, people use the term “makeup bag” instead of “cosmetic chest.” If Bradbury had used this word, the reader would realize that Bradbury is discussing something that carries makeup. The purpose of dystopian books is to create a solid vision of a future problem, and if a reader can’t understand the words that the author uses to describe this problem, the author’s vision will not come across. In the novel Ready Player One, a teen reader in the target audience can easily understand the words since they are more modern and familiar phrases. Ernest Cline states, “Playing old video games never failed to clear my mind and set me at ease” (14). Most teens in 2021 know what video games are, since they tend to have a huge impact on the average teen’s