"We get these cases nine or ten a night of suicide”. We have been asked the question over and over. The dystopian society in the novel burns all books in order to try and control the thoughts of its citizens. Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books in a futuristic American city and realizes society isn't right. A robot dog that was created to literally sniff out people who were reading books and or bucking against the system of order the firemen and society, in general, were sworn to keep. Over the course of Farenhight 451, themes have been repeated throughout the book. Fahrenheit 451 is not modern-day society because of suicide, dangerous techonology, and government control over citizens. The first topic is suicide. Some examples of suicide …show more content…
In the modern day, there is almost no government control over citizens in the U.S. But the book there was a ton of examples I could pick over government control, A few I picked were “It had an eye. By wearing a special optical helmet, the impersonal operators of the machine could gaze into a person's soul he was pumping out. What did the eye see? He did not say. He saw but not what the eye saw”. I also found "If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it.". As you read throughout the book it gets worst almost nothing like the U.S. When I did my research I found that "The Federal Government is composed of three distinct branches: legislative, executive, and judicial, whose powers are vested by the U.S. Constitution in the Congress, the President, and the Federal courts, respectively." and “More than a year after fighting broke out between colonial militia and British forces in April 1775, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia finally decided to declare the independence of the North American colonies.” The Declaration of Independence was one of the biggest turning points of the U.S. and government control in