How Is Fahrenheit 451 Relevant Today

Our current world isn't perfect ,yet it isn't completely horrible. Ray Bradbury,the author of Fahrenheit 451,pictured that the future,our modern society,would be a certain way. Our modern society is somewhat different compared to Ray Bradbury's idea of what the future would be like.For example,he thought that our world would create fires in order to burn books.Although, Bradbury isn't that off when he describes our modern society. As he was walking home,Montag stumbles across a seventeen year old girl . She is quite strange,according to him. Our society and the society in the book in some ways are alike. "You're peculiar, you're aggravating , yet you're easy to forgive" (Bradbury23). Today, we have people who think about certain subjects in a different perspective. Sometimes we look at these people differently because they have a different thinking process. Montag doesn't have the same thinking process as Clarisse.Therefore,he finds her peculiar. In the book's society about the entire community has
When Clarisse said this, I took this quote figuratively and literally. The people in the book and in our society hurt each other physically.For example, people in both society's get bullied physically. Whether it's being pushed around or getting beat up everyday. I believe the author is trying to say is that people will do anything to fit it and not be looked at weirdly. If you don't fit in that brings attention to you and not the positive kind. People in both society's thirst for the feeling of being normal. As long as you act the same and don't stand out, you're normal. In conclusion, the author of "Fahrenheit 451", brings in Clarisse and changes Montag. Clarisse is one of those people we come across in our lives at some point. The type that makes you question everything you've believed was correct. Clarisse helped Montag realize how cruel the world ,he lives in,