The Frightening Future Farenheit 451 Essay - 856 Words

Have you ever read such a great book that you became completely infatuated with it? You feel the pain, happiness, sadness that the characters feel; you feel as if you personally know the characters. You begin to forget that what you are reading is just a creative piece of writing because you are so infatuated with it. Reading for pleasure is a way to escape reality, a way to be inspired, a way to become more knowledgeable, and even a way to gain a new identity (Storm). In this day and age however, students prefer not to read for pleasure during their free time, such as summer vacations (McGaha). A major obstacle that students face today is technology. With technology expanding so rapidly, it seems that students are more focused on owning†¦show more content†¦Walls are turned into televisions and these televisions replace families. Montag’s neighbor, Clarisse causes Montag to begin to question the way the new world works like she does. Clarisse is a young girl who is n ot like everyone else. Clarisse questions why the new world works the way that it does and she thinks for herself as well as spends time with her family. She is not taken over by technology like everyone else in the new world is. Clarisse fascinates Montag, until she is killed by a speeding car which then causes Montag to go into a sadness. Montag begins to start taking books from the houses he burns and hides them and reads them. Bradbury creates a new world in Fahrenheit 451 that appears much like what our present world is evolving in to. â€Å"The genius of America is overcoming† (Rowe 3). Stephen Rowe’s book Overcoming America, America Overcoming coincides with Fahrenheit 451 in a way that could be rather frightening. The two books go together in a way that shows what America will be like if our world continues to evolve the way that it is. As our world begins to become more modern, our world begins to look more like the world in Fahrenheit 451. We see people speed ing, people use headphones to block out the noises going on in reality, and television seems to interest many more people than sitting down to read a good book does. Before we know it America today will be the world in Fahrenheit