Ethan Chavez In the novel “Fahrenheit 451”, there are various different technologies that tell us more about the society that Montag lives in. In my opinion, all the technological advancements are the government's way of manipulating the citizens to do whatever they say. An example of this is the seashells that the people use in the book, and is seen used in Montag’s chase scene, where the reporter orders everyone to check outside their homes on the count of ten. Another example of the government controlling their citizens are the TV walls. The TV walls are a sort of replacement for the books in Fahrenheit 451, so instead of people getting their mind stimulated by books, they use TV walls as a sort of mindless entertainment, which distracts them from wanting to do anything else. The last piece of technology that I want to talk about is the mechanical hound. In my opinion, the mechanical hound is an …show more content…
Due to the family playing on the TV walls, I think people are too distracted from the real worlds, and that's why they don’t have many social relationships. The lack of books in this world causes people to constantly rely on technology for entertainment, which causes Mildred to see the Parlor that plays on the TV walls as her family, which means that she spends so much time inside watching TV that she associates them as her family. In the book, the mechanical hound prevents the spread of books by sniffing them out, which leads to the use of books around the world to get very small, and everyone who doesn’t use books are basically addicted to their TV walls. The people in Fahrenheit 451 don’t have the time in their life to really focus about what's going on around them, they’re so addicted to their technology that they don’t ask any questions about life or take the time to look around, and when they talk to each other, they just give bland and generic