1.1 Background of the Research
Technology has always develop for a long time. Until today, it is still develops at a stunning pace. As a matter of fact, technology has touched every aspect of life; from the way we move by using a horse changed into automobile, from walking on the land to flying in the air and reach farther distance. The products we are using in our daily life also produced by the technology. Under those circumstances, including the economy, politics, and also society, are affected by technology.
Furthermore, the technologies that we are using have a great impact on the society. Technology has changed the way people live. This phenomenon was started from the time industrial revolution happened, where technology finally could be produced massively.
The picture of developing technology could be found in any writing document as well as a novel. From the using of technology for life on 1823 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein through the imaginary future in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley in 1932, literary works has explained the worst and best illustration of using technologies in our daily life. Specifically, one of the greatest author who talked about technology in his works is Ray Bradbury.
Known for his specialized on technologies and scientific novel, such as Fahrenheit 451 (1953),
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The name Douglas is taken from his own name and Spaulding is taken from his father. As we count the year of the setting of the novel 1928, around that time Bradbury who was born, on 22nd August 1920, he must be eight years old. He has calculated the setting so it would fit his real age during that time. Also, the setting of the place is in the summer, exactly the same with the time when he was born, which is in August. Bradbury had represented that he had been living and experiencing living through the year of 1928, which is the same as the time setting in this