“The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you.”(W. Somerset Maugham)In the novel Fahrenheit 451 there is a society where watching fire burn books and spending all your time watching T.V is entertainment and a relationship is spend a few weeks with someone and divorce them. These dull lifeless zombies don’t care about love and books all they care about is T.V. and the new car. If our society would travel down this path we would have no books, no love, and no importance for life which means no knowledge, no love, and no wish to live anymore which then turns us into the society of Fahrenheit 451. Books, life and love are very important to us all we just need to make sure we don’t mess it up for everyone. Webster’s-Dictionary …show more content…
Guy Montag throughout the whole book tries to have love with his wife Mildred but every time he starts it up she shuts him down immediately. “When did we meet? And where?... I don’t know Well can’t you remember.”(Guy Montag and Mildred, 40) The sad part for Montag is that his wife who he has been married to for ten years doesn’t even remember where they first met. In the past 144 years the marriage and divorce rate has rapidly increased and decreased throughout the various wars and The Great Depression. Now most people would believe that the divorce rate is rapidly increasing but the matter of the fact is that are rate is lover than the 90’s, the 80’s, and the 70’s. Now marriage has its own problems because people will spend a month or two with someone and they think they are ready to spend the rest of their lives with them. That fact is the reason the divorce rate is up because people will soon find out the people they married are too rude or have something about themselves you don’t like so it causes lots of divorces. Most generations before ours would spend a couple to a few years before they would decide to celebrate the sacrament of matrimony. The good news is according to priceeconomics.com 92% of the population spend at least a year together. Love is a precious given to us from the heavens we should appreciate it instead of destroy and disgrace