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Technology In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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Technology..Technology today is the brain and the humanś are the consumers , which technology is killing the human brain cells.In Ray Bradbury´s Fahrenhiet 451 Montag had a wife named Mildred and she overdosed on sleeping pills and had to be took into the emergency room.The medical practitioner had to replace her old blood with new blood.So, when Montag come home all she does is watch tv and sleep.¨No matter when he came in the walls were always talking to Mildred.¨ The have a room with Tvs on the wall and Mildred Would say that the tvs were like her family.Mildred didn´t work or anything she just stayed home and basically be lazy all day. In the book they were not allowed to read one book. If they were to read a book then the fireman (Montag …show more content…

I feel that when you read books or stay off your technology then your brain is going to be functioning and you can learn more that way.¨If only they could have taken her mind along to the dry cleaners emptied the pockets and steamed and cleansed it and reblocked it and brought it

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Mildred does not see how their relationship is being interfered with by the technology. Because she is too involved with her ‘family’, and their nonsense that they are making her believe. The readers also see how relationships are becoming the victims to technology when Mildred and her friends are over. Montag decides he has had enough of hearing the women talk about their lives, and how everything must revolve around them. So he decides to read a poem.

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