Society has an everlasting hold on modern people and the people of the past. In the book Fahrenheit 451, Montag wants to read and understand what he's reading and why books are so dangerous. How is Bradbury’s vision of the future like humans real experiences in today's modern culture every day?, and how would today's society compare to the society in Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451. In the book Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury writes about a society that burns books and has a lot of technological advancements. The novel was first published in 1953 and some of the inventions in the novel are in today's modern society, some of the inventions are the wall-to-wall circuit and seashells, which in today's world are flat screens and earbuds or headphones. This proves that society in the past 64 years has changed and will continue to change. “It was a pleasure to burn” (Page 3, Fahrenheit 451) The quote from one of the very first pages, the quote shows that the society they lived in was so corrupted and bent on hating books that just burning them felt right, …show more content…
This proves that he did truly want change for his society, instead of burning books they should have been burning the society, the society that made him and so many others blind to the things that were really going on. Many would compare this to the US today, were all so focused on the politics the enemies and the wars that people forget. In the Bill of Rights it states “No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war but in a manner to be prescribed by law,”(Amendment 3). The problem with this is people are too used to “not having to” host soldiers in their homes, so most people don't do it at all. The homeless military rate in the United States is 11%, this seems small but these people served our country and they fought for the freedom humanity