Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451
“Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head,” says Jasper Fforde Imagine a world completely controlled by technology. That's the life Montag had and this story depicts his journey through. Fahrenheit 451 is a good novel because it has slew of thought-provoking characters, a well thought-out plot and it really makes a reader think about the consequences of what censorship can really do to our society.
Bradbury was a really good author, and he focused mostly on science fiction. Fahrenheit 451 was inspired by a real event that happened which was World War II. Fahrenheit 451 was

These books about Communism were so powerful that they really scared people with their ideas of what living in a Communist government could be like. It scared them so much that the government went as far as taking some freedom of speech rights away from people for the well-being of the rest of the population. There was a dictatorship in Germany and the Soviet Union right before the book was written. This is where the idea of democracy versus Communism comes up (“Fahrenheit” np). Bradbury gets his ideas of censorship and mind control in media from history. It wasn't really that long before he wrote this book that there was a world war going on against freedoms such as religion or speech. The book was a really big political statement against the censorship that America was also going through at this time. The themes revolve around our chance of becoming a conformed country (Eller np). The book was how Bradbury expressed his fear in Communism and censorship from the government. The book was a really big political statement against the censorship that America was also going through at this time. The themes revolve around our chance of becoming a conformed country (Eller

She tells him that the huge billboards hide the real world and everything they think is being controlled (E. Eller np). Clarisse is the reason this all happened because she got Montag wondering about things like this. Even though they were little things, they made a difference. He starts asking questions and he realizes that burning books is not the best thing for society. Captain Beatty becomes Montags teacher. He is the fire chief, and he says that the rejection of books were because they were contradictory to what people wanted to hear so they jot banned (E. Eller np). Beatty says they were contradictory to what people wanted to hear, but it's actually against what the government wanted people to know. It became easier to just get rid of them instead of letting people hear two sides to one story because they would begin to question. Edward E. Eller says, “The problem, however, is that if books are the way to "melancholy" and unhappiness, then why is Mildred so deeply depressed and Montag so angry? Montag's third "teacher" explains the source of their unhappiness. Faber, the old college English teacher, argues that the "telivisor" is irresistible. Furthermore, if you "drop a seed" (take a sedative) and turn on the televisor, "[It] grows you any shape it wishes. It becomes and is the truth." It makes a people into what it wants them to be, a conforming mass