Similarities Between Usa In Fahrenheit 451

Aryn Lilly

Mr. Klever

Eng III

4/20/2023

Fahrenheit 451 Essay

Is the United States of America what we want it to be? While researching to determine if the United States is similar or different from Fahrenheit 451, I found that yes, the United States is WAY too similar. The government is trying to censor us, there’s a high suicide rate, and distracted driving is a big issue. The United States is similar to Fahrenheit 451 because of Dangerous technology, censorship, and suicide. In Fahrenheit 451, Clarisse’s life is taken, killed in a car accident. In Fahrenheit 451 Mildred says, “No. The same girl. McClellan. McClellan. Run over by a car. Four days ago. I’m not sure. But I think she’s dead. The family moved out anyway. I don’t know. But

In Fahrenheit 451, the people of the city aren’t allowed to read. “‘ Do you ever read any of the books you burn?’ He laughed. ‘That’s against the law!’” (Bradbury 8). This relates to the United States because the United States are trying to control the things we get educated about in school. According to UCLA, “Many are concerned that the bill will not only result in restricted or nonexistent education about the existence of diverse sexual and gender identities, but it will result in a chilly or hostile school climate for LGBTQ educators, students, and families because it suggests that something is wrong with LGBTQ identities……. Over 16% of LGBTQ parents have already taken steps to move their families out of the state”

In Fahrenheit 451, Mildred almost dies, having to get her stomach pumped because she took an entire bottle of pills. Bradbury says, “Her face was like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain; over which clouds might pass their moving shadows, but she felt no shadow. There was only the singing of the thimble-wasp in her tamped-shut ears, and her eyes all glassy, and breath going in and out, softly, faintly, in and out her nostrils, and her not caring whether it came or went, came or went” (Bradbury 13). Montag freaks out because he sees his wife lying completely still and doesn’t hear her breathing. In the United States, “Americans continue to die at younger ages over the past three years due to despair (deaths relating to suicide and substance use)” (CWLA). There are so many reasons behind suicide, the most common being depression. The United States has the highest death rate out of all the countries in the