How Is Fahrenheit 451 Related To Today

Ray Bradbury once said “I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.” Over sixty years ago, without trying, Bradbury wrote a novel describing how our world might be today. He tried preventing the inevitable future by showing what our world would look like without books. Sadly though, there are many connections leading to the future Bradbury created through his novel and our world today. Bradbury’s own depiction of technology, school, and media are directly linked to today’s society. The novel, Fahrenheit 451, is similar to our world today which makes it much more powerful to readers. Most importantly, a direct connection on the use and effects of technology can be related to our world today. A specific connection shown is the

We first learn about the causes and reasons for outlawing books the morning after Montag saw the woman burn with her books. Beatty makes a visit to Montag and tells him the history of why and how books got outlawed. Beatty states how “School was shortened, and discipline was relaxed.” (53). He claims that this was the beginning to forgetting and not caring about books. Similar to our world today, school has changed immensely over time. In past years, school used to be more strict and structured. Students had to stand when they talked and had a much greater respect for their teachers. Now, school is much more relaxed because we can take more liberal classes such as foreign language. We are no longer confined to the typical generic classes like math and science. Students also don’t have the same respect for their teachers like they did years ago. As a student myself, I’ve heard students talk poorly about teachers behind their back. In years past, no student would ever do that because they knew there would be a horrible consequence for disrespecting their elders. The causes and reasons for burning outlawed books explained in the novel can be linked to how our world is

The major role of Montag’s occupation is burning outlawed books. The first page of the book gives insight to the feelings and actions that Montag has associated with burning books. “With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow, and black.” (1) With the growing amount of technology, books have become replaced. Books are definitely not as popular as they used to be a couple of centuries ago. Recently books have been stereotyped as being old-fashioned or outdated. However, this major role change is unrealistic. As we know today, books are not outlawed and firefighters have the job of putting out fires rather than starting them. Even though books are becoming more and more forgotten, there are hundreds or thousands of people who care about literature and would never let it disappear forever. This particular claim isn’t similar to our world today, but many little details throughout the novel shown from the lack of literature are becoming more evident in our world