An Omen Fulfilled “I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it” (Ray Bradbury). Bradbury is an American author known for his science fiction novels on technological advancements. The dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, illustrates a society that burns books in the future. He writes about how the world will be backward (firemen will start fires, being outside is considered weird/illegal, books are banned/burned, relationships are not made with love/acknowledgment, etc.). Life is what Bradbury warned. Modern technology has discouraged people from nurturing interpersonal relationships and reading. We live in a world that Bradbury feared. Just like the society in his novel, today's society is obsessed with buying a multitude of newer technology. For instance, Mildred asks Montag “how long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall-TV put in… If we had a fourth wall, why it’d be just like this room wasn’t our at all, but all kinds of exotic people’s rooms” (24). Nowadays, people are obsessed with TVs, phones, movies, shows, etc., and filling their houses with such devices. Mildred symbolizes all the people who …show more content…
For instance, when Montag asks Mildred to read, she questions “Why should I read? What for?” (75). Finding no use for reading is a great downfall in one’s mind. Technology blinds people from reading, causing them to lose interest in books. Additionally, multiple students and people alike would rather read a summary of a book than read the whole book. Reading books as a whole is important for brain and language development. Reading a shortcut version of a book will not give the reader valuable information and influential life lessons. Technology can disrupt the mind from the wonders of reading by desensitizing and being found more significant than