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Technology In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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In the end, the mechanical Hound is searching for Guy Montag because of the hidden books they found in his home, and because of the death of Captain Beatty. Guy Montag wants to find Faber to get his help. Faber explains to Montag to run away from the city to meet up with other people. Those people discuss about the hidden books because they have all the novels in the world memorized. The Hound chases Montag to the river, but can’t get in the water because the Hound is mechanical. Thus, the Hound leaves him alone and fakes Montag's death. The war starts: books vs. technology. Montag finds the special people Faber had spoken about across the river, and together they plan for the new city that will rise soon after the war. Bradbury makes us …show more content…

Bradbury's use of descriptive phrases creates vivid images that creates scenes in the reader’s head while reading. I was able to visualize the books that were being ignited by kerosene, the flamethrower that neatly but wildly sprayed out flames of destruction, the misery people went through when their books and how homes were ablaze. All in all, these events made me think about the huge impact technology has on people. Technology makes you into one of the zombie people in the book while books make you think of reality. I have found myself wrapped around technology sometimes not knowing what is happening around me; it seems to lure me into the futuristic American world described in the novel where I feel and think nothing but the pleasure of having my phone or TV on. On the other hand, when I read books everything changes; I think and feel a multitude of emotions that make my brain visualize the words. Books don’t give you images like technology and TV does, you make your own images, movies and characters out of the descriptions out of the words that play in your head. Books make us human. Books gives us an opportunity to think about life, and how the story or content of the book helps us in the real world, while technology sucks out the intelligence and comprehension away from

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