Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a book that opens ideas about futuristic technology and predicts what lives would be like with advanced technology. In this society, they have many technological advancements like, Bluetooth and big TV walls, but with those there comes circumstances like: people not doing stuff on their own, they listen to what other people say instead of researching facts themselves, suicide is a regular occurrence, and people don’t care about gaining any knowledge. The firemen that burn down houses think they are stopping people from reading books, but now the people just don’t care to read books or gain knowledge from them. This book predicts today’s society and most predictions made are very true, from the technological advance we have to the way people act. In the book, it presents ways what life would be like with Bluetooth, big televisions and other technological advancements. In the houses, people will have a whole four walls of just televisions. Guy’s wife, Mildred, has three walls and she is wanting four. She talks to the people through the TV …show more content…
Whenever Montag starts with his reading, Mildred always hates is because she does not see the point in it. She just sits and listens to Montag read, but never thinks about what the book is actually saying. Just sitting and watching is how most of the community in this society thinks. Most just sit and watch TV walls, and none of them actually learn about politics or English. The narrator describes the setting as Montag reads, “The parlor was dead and Mildred kept peering in at it with a blank expression as Montag paced the floor… squatted down and read a age as many as ten times, aloud” (Bradbury 67). As the quote says, Mildred just sits and listens it shows she does not care about the books. The books to her are nothing, and that is also how everyone else in this society