In Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury had written an accurate prediction about how future generations would lack the ability to read books and fall into the effects of societal trends. Society is starting to lack the reading of books and knowledge in Fahrenheit 451 since books are banned and everything is done for them."Mrs. Bowles stood up and glared at Montag.'You see? I knew it, that's what I wanted to prove! I knew it would happen! I've always said, poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feelings, poetry and sickness; all that much! Now I've had it proved to me. You're nasty, Mr. Montag, you're nasty!'"(48) During this event in the book it really shows why this is one of the many reasons people stopped wanting to read books …show more content…
They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the chemistry of earth. Yet somehow we think we can grow, feeding on flowers and fireworks, without completing the cycle back to reality.”(79) This quote tells us exactly why people fear books, it's because they are afraid to face reality they live in. They rather live in a fantasy world then instead of facing the real world. Many of us nowadays try to distance ourselves from the real problems our world is facing and also the ones we must face ourselves. We rather not read or hear what is going on around instead we rather choose to pretend none of it exist. “Books aren't people. You read and I look all around, but there isn't anybody!”(34) Mildred is showing her frustration to montag when they are ready together because she can't see,imagine or understand what monag is saying, Because in their society people are more engaged with technology and since everything is thought out for them so they don't have to think or do much it's