Imagine a boring world, one where no one has conversations or is even allowed to read because it is illegal. That is exactly what Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is about, a world where books are illegal and you get arrested for even owning a book, people are forced into conformity and practically brainwashed into believing they are happy. There are so many parts of this book that show how people have just let themselves be controlled by their government and how easy it is for them to be distracted by ‘Wall TV’. It becomes frowned upon to even think for yourself in this society yet the people think it is normal, they barely even speak to one another and if you do you are thought of as weird and are frowned upon by society. All these people want …show more content…
In the book, the main character Guy Montag meets his new neighbor Clarisse. Clarisse is depicted as this seventeen year old girl who is very curious about the world which in real life is completely normal and it is expected for a girl that age to be asking questions; and she even describes herself as “I’m seventeen, and I’m crazy” (heit 451, pg 5). At first, he thinks she is weird because of how many questions she asks him and how she even starts a conversation with him out of nowhere when he is walking home from his job as a firefighter, she asks questions like “Have you seen the 200 feet long billboards in the country beyond town? Did you know that once Billboards were only 20 feet long?” ( Taurang 451, pg 7). Or she says facts that Montag has never thought about, like how there is dew on the morning grass, or how there is a man on the moon. Montag sees this whole conversation as odd because in his society people hardly ever start conversations with one another, and if they do it is most likely a dry conversation about the weather or the shows that have been