Family In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

In a world where 1,000s of people dying a day is not a strange occurrence. Ray Bradbury examines the idea of family and the little sympathy people have for one another in the book Fahrenheit 451. He paints a picture of a world where a great deal of people die everyday and the meaning of family is degrading from what it is ordinarily meant. He illustrates the theme as ruthlessness and not caring between each other and their families. He displays this through the amount of death, and the lack of consideration for their families and each other, an example of this would be Guy Montag and his wife, Mildred who are always arguing and don’t actually love each other.” The lack of caring for one another even their own family members shows how messed up this world Bradbury paints a picture of. Mrs Phelps is in Montag’s house and is being questioned by Montag as he asks, “how’re your children,Mrs Phillips?” (Page 96) She replies “You know I haven’t any! No one

For example, Mildred takes too many pills and dies, only to be brought back to life by the operator who says, “Sure, she’ll be okay.” (Page 16) “We get these cases nine or ten a night.” (page 16) To Montag. People taking too many pills and trying to die is not a way of suicide anymore, because they can just bring you back to life with a machine they made that was built for it. People don’t even care for their partners, some people that go to war tell their wives, “If I get killed off, you just go ahead and don’t cry, but get married.” (page 95) They have seen so much death that they truly don’t care for each other that they won't even cry. Mrs Phelps has had 3 marriages and is proving the point of nobody cares for each other because, she says, “let old Pete do all the worrying.” (page 94) nobody actually dies in wars usually but most of the men commit suicide while they are there, because of how depressing it