Many authors use cultural views in their writings to show how they feel about certain topics or issues going on with the world. One of these brilliant authors was Ray Bradbury. Bradbury was a well known science fiction writer who believed that we, as humans, are heading towards disaster. We are becoming technology dependent, numb to human emotions, and becoming addicted to substance abuse. Ray Bradbury uses Fahrenheit 451 to express his concerns with matters affecting human welfare. Ray Bradbury was born in the small town of Waukegan, Illinois on August 22, 1920. Bradbury had first gotten into reading and writing when he was three and he had whooping cough for 3 months. Biography Today states that during this time, his mother would read Edgar Allen Poe to him in candle light to pass the time (1). By the time Bradbury had turned eight, he had discovered science fiction (1). Discovering science fiction had been a turning point in his life and he had yet to realize this. His friends had mocked him for wanting to write and read stories that were science fiction (1). Even …show more content…
Although Bradbury had been primarily a short story writer, he had also wrote the occasional novel. With all his novels, only one of them had been science fiction; Fahrenheit 451 (2).
Harold Bloom tells us in his article “Fahrenheit 451” that Bradbury had written Fahrenheit 451 in the year of 1953 (1). Bradbury had called Fahrenheit 451” a dime novel because he had written the first draft in the basement typing room of the library at the University of California at Los Angeles where he rented a typewriter for 10 cents (Biography Today 3). It is believed that an inspiration for Fahrenheit 451 had came from a fire that he had witnessed at his grandmother's house and the terror he had felt