'Midterm Practice' By Ray Bradbury

English 10 S1 (L1) Midterm Practice Essay Science-fiction authors write about a dystopian society in which they critique the things they do not like about the world they live in. In many of Bradbury’s works, he critiques the evolution of technological devices and how he thinks they will affect mankind in the future. Bradbury believes that as technology evolves, more people will lose the social skills they had previously. Many of his works have a character that has decided to not let the things around them control their lives. He writes about how the people in the dystopian society act quite hostile towards them simply because they choose to keep to themselves and do the things that make them happy,

It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history”(Bradbury 9). The use of complex and sensual language conflicts with the simple and barbaric act of burning, detailing the belief that humans prefer to follow the easy and gratifying path instead of a more challenging journey with effort. Montag never thought about how corrupt this government is until he meets a seventeen-year-old girl named Clarisse. Clarisse is known as the peculiar one in this work of literature. She does not go to school because she thinks that is unstimulating and because there are many fights at the school she attended and these fights lead to one of the students being killed. Clarisse makes Montag “wake up” and realize how messed up the society they are living in is. After Clarrise causes Montag to question the society and make him wonder if he is actually happy in this society, she unfortunately gets hit by a car and later passes away. A little while after Montag is bombarded with the depressing news, he meets a retired English professor, Faber who teaches him about how marvelous literature is as he says in

This destroys humanity because it forces people to lose their individuality and makes the world extremely monotonous. Most of the people in this dystopian society, sit around in their homes watching television. As it says in the text, “The police, of course, but what a rare, incredible thing; in a city of three million, there was only one police car left, wasn't that correct? Ever since a year ago, 2052, the election year, the force had been cut down from three cars to one. Crime was ebbing; there was no need now for the police, save for this one lone car wandering and wandering the empty streets” (Bradbury 3). This has made it a crime to just simply walk down the street and explore the things that are going on around you. This brings up many questions about the world we live in and how similar the dystopian society in “The Pedestrian” is compared to the world that we live in today. The technological advancements in this text did not save