Midterm Exam Science-Fiction authors write about a dystopian society where they critique the things they do not like about the world that they are living in. In the dystopian societies that Bradbury creates, he includes a person who has decided to not let the things around them control their life. For example, Clarisse. These people that Bradbury created are treated with hostility because they have not allowed technological advances to change the way they think or the way they see the world. For example, Clarisse never allowed technology to take over her life and “force” her to lose the curiosity she has about the world. Technology and technological developments cannot save humanity, and actually have the capacity to destroy it. In …show more content…
After Clarisse causes Montag to “wake up” and see how messed up their society was, she is unfortunately run over by a car and later passes away. After Montag hears the depressing news about Clarisse’s passing, he meets a retired English professor named Faber. Faber teaches Montag about how wonderful literature can be. As he says in the text, “Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is in what the books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us”(Bradbury 79). This causes Montag to question why books were stereotyped as “bad”. After Montag is accused of reading books, he leaves the city and meets an ex-fireman named Granger. Granger still has a lot of hope for humanity. As he says in the text, “And someday we’ll remember so much that we’ll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up. Come on now, we’re going to go build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them” (Bradbury 157). After all mankind has done in this society, Granger still has hope that mankind will learn how to solve problems by communicating with one another instead of creating violence. The technological advances made in this piece of literature did not save