Fahrenheit 451 Reflection

The 50’s presents a difficultly time in America. With the country still having been split in our culture with racism, the aftermath of World War 2 in beginning of the 40’s and the economy was still trying to grow after the great recession of 1939, it’s a sense of disconnection and lost hope, but yet people found a way to felt that life would get better. Ray Bradbury’s book, “Fahrenheit 451,” has that feeling, and some felt that this book was a prophecy for the future.
The story takes a place in the a futurist spin of the 60’s. Guy Montag, A fireman, but not the one that you would think that save fires, but he burns books that were outlawed. Montag is does everything by the book type of guy, he lack in confidences at times, as well as knowledge. Most of Montag journey throughout the book, he ran across people that would help him to find himself, even if it hurt him. His wife Milred or Clarrise the young girl he meet and all the characters made me think how similar we to them as a culture and people. We lack empathy, monogamy is always being tested, and people are now seemed distract from the world. The burning of the books symbolize to me, books vs technology or
When Montag started to question life, and started to think for himself, Mildred would try talk him out of it,bring him down to her level. Even when Clariise died, her reaction was of world that robbed of joy. She had two friends who was much like her named, Clara Phelps and Ann Bowles. I guess misery loves company. Mildred was a materialistic, depressed and inches away from causing her own sudiuce, and not caring about tomorrow. In today’s society it’s more Mildred than ever, but instead of just television, we have phones and computers. As much as I think this is scary for a large of amount people to think like, it’s happening now. Technology is our biggest killer of