What Is The Theme Of Education In Fahrenheit 451

A Summer’s Reading, by Bernard Malamud, tells of the importance of education by explaining the life of a young man who dropped out of high school and then suffered the consequences of never returning. In Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, the ignorance toward education is put under light by the burning of books and the use of televisions for learning. Fahrenheit 451 depicts a more exaggerated form of today’s social theme on how vital education and books are to help youth succeed later on in life. A Summer’s Reading is a representation of the reality when people do not care enough to put effort into their education and then suffer the consequences. Bradbury’s social and political theme is very careless and enabling to the uneducated people

In A Summer’s Reading, it is a completely different outlook because of the social and political themes during the time it was written. George Stoyonovich, the main character, is asked by an old friend, Mr.Cattanzara, what he does during the day because he has seen George walking the streets at night. George replies with, “I'm waiting for a job,” but to take attention away from the fact that he does not have a job he continues, “I'm reading a lot to pick up my education” (Malamud, 197). George tries to change the subject and make it seem like he is busy because he lives in a working class neighborhood with his father and his sister, where it would be unacceptable not to have an education and a job. The political theme in A Summer’s Reading is that it is not as easy to just give jobs to people who have not worked hard to deserve

The social theme in Bradbury’s novel is that education is not important, because their future jobs do not require the people to know anything, unlike that in Malamud's text A Summer’s Reading. As one of the characters, Beatty says, “School is shortened…philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored” (Bradbury, 59). They are not learning anything useful, they watch television in school, they focus on sports rather than history or English, and the political theme is enabling the people in their society to do so. Their families are falling apart, but they don't care as long as they, themselves are happy. Another character, Mrs.Bowles, speaks of her children in such a negative way saying “I put up with them when they come home three days a month” (Bradbury,