“I don’t describe the future, I try to prevent it,” (Ray Bradbury). Many dystopian books portray horrifying futures for our world. For example, you may think the the futuristic world of Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is a little acute to compared to our world, but it is not so different as it seems. Modern day and futuristic themes can be compared through two common communication systems: literature and technology. Literature is historic way to communicate. * But in both literal ways (Fahrenheit 451), and metaphorical ways, the two compared societies burn “Faber quote” . As Ray Bradbury explained in his “Coda”, for Fahrenheit 451, Books can be burned in more than one way. Bradbury continues with a story of how publishers wanted to use his story The Fog Horn for a high school reader. He declines the offer because he knows that the publishers will abridge the story. Bradbury explains how this can be considered burning books because the publishers take out the most important part: the microscopic details. We also have Fahrenheit 451, which LITERALLY burns books. This idea relates to the well known concept that Knowledge is Power. The …show more content…
For example, in Fahrenheit 451, homeowners have giant wall tv’s that cover their entire living room. People become addicted to watching these tv’s and begin talking back to them, like Mildred, the main character’s wife, who spends every single day watching the TV all day long. Do you see hints of technology addictions like this in our modern world? Siri, the talking device on your iPhone, is a lot like the TV’s in Fahrenheit 451, where they have you interact with the TV characters with a script. Even regular TV’s can be compared to the wall TV’s because you see many teens and even adults today who are never able to take their eyes off the TV and have it constantly on all the time in their