Paper On Fahrenheit 451, By Ray Bradbury

Mia Brown Klever English III 05/12/24 Fahrenheit 451 Research Paper Ray Bradbury’s novel “ relentlessly accurate” is a really great book to be read and taught to me and future generations in school because of its sometimes scaryly accurate relations to our modern society today. The novel is about a dystopian futuristic society where the government doesn't allow anybody to read or own any books to take away their right of personal knowledge. The book was first published in 1953 but has some crazy modern similarities to our current life that we know today that someone like Ray Bradbury could have only imagined back then such as technology obsession, drug use, and government control. This book is a great eye opener and wake up call to realize

React to me. Basically making it seem as if technology has real human emotion and that is scary. Furthermore, another parallel between the book and our modern society is government control and censorship. In the book, the government completely controls everybody and bans everyone from owning and reading books to attempt to take away their right to seek knowledge. There is a sense of like a parallel universe in the novel because in our society fireman are there to put out fires but in the book everybody is sort of brainwashed on what life was like before censorship and now in the book fireman are there to start fires and their job is to burn all of the books. Whereas our government does not burn our books and our firefighters don't start fires, there are still many similarities to the idea of power in the book and modern society. A quote from the book about government control is "We must all be alike." Not everyone is born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone is made equal. Each man is the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against." This quote is saying that the government is happy when everybody is alike and there is no