Aspen R. ELA 6* 4/18/2024. “You do not have to burn books to destroy a culture”. Just get people to stop reading them” (Ray Bradbury). Fahrenheit 451 is what Ray Bradbury thought our future was going to look like. Although there are still many differences between our two societies, as the years progress, we are merging even closer to being the same. In Fahrenheit 451 their society is completely consumed by their screens and struggle with drug abuse, war, and an oppressive government, even though we only struggle a little with these current attributes of their society only time will tell into what we might turn. “What, was it always like this? This firehouse our work?” “I mean once upon a time” (Bradbury 31). Montag begins to question everything …show more content…
In our modern-day society, in contrast, we are allowed to have books and to read them, but they are on the decline as more books are beginning to be banned and replaced with modern technology. This is like the society in Fahrenheit 451 because books in our country are getting banned for the same reason, offending diverse groups of people, this is also why there are no books allowed in Fahrenheit 451. In the book, one of the reasons, they are banned is because the content of the books is offensive to certain minorities. Likewise, in our society certain books are getting banned because of their content. However, Fahrenheit also banned books because it helps control the intelligence of the population; this in contrast to our community, the government only bans books due to the material they contain, not because they want to control the intellectual level of the population. “A book is a loaded gun” (Bradbury 58). Fahrenheit 451 can be compared to our society in so many ways, from their oppressive government to the role drug use plays in both societies. In the book, the citizens live in fear of the government and the laws that they have placed over them. This can be compared to our society because we also have an oppressive government and rules