Fahrenheit 451 Without Memory Analysis

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What is the point in real memory? Why should we remember all the moral and immoral from the past? How does it even help us? Some people say most conditions in today's world are pointless but one item that stands out is memory. Everyone has to have memory, even if it just an image popping up in your head of the last time you took your dog on a walk or helped an old woman cross the street. Sometimes it is difficult to regard that memory will always be with us even if we choose not to have it, we really have no choice. The moral, the dreadful, the bitter, the disappointed, the lazy, there is so much from the past that interferes with our daily lives. Elie Wiesel had once spoken, “Without memory there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.” I ask myself, “How does such a small quote have so much potential and meaning? How could someone write a quote like this with so much power? One story that really stands out is, Fahrenheit 451. The society in Fahrenheit 451 is so bland and tedious. The people in this story, wake up everyday and basically, repeat the same cycle over and over. The author always like to discuss Mildred. Mildred …show more content…

What does this mean and how can it even relate to the objects assigned? After I read the Declaration of Independence for the first time, the texture confused me, which made me think, there was no way out of this. I finally began to realize what was really happening. I began to understand the tragedies and horror that these poor colonists had to go through. These decisions made for the colonists did not only hurt them but it also helped them become more independent and reliable towards one another. In The Declaration of Independence, it states, “ He had plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.” This describes the terrifying pain/suffering that the colonists really had to go