Realism In Fahrenheit 451

Fahreneit 451 is an excellent dystopian novel that teaches people about what the future is like without books. In Fahrenheit 451, the setting is a universe that does not read books because they are considered bad. It is a parallel universe in which firefighters actually start fires and burn books. All of the citizens agree with everything the chief firefighter says and the citizens just watch television all day and let their brains rot. Nobody ever thinks maybe books are good until a girl comes along and talks about how she loves books and it convinces Guy Montag, the main character, that maybe everyone else is wrong. In America, reading has gone down significantly and television has gone up extremely leading some people to think, maybe we live in Fahrenheit 451. The realism of Fahrenheit 451 is still very real today. The novel is a best seller, a winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal, as well as one of only four Best Novel Retro Hugos ever given, in 2004. To say that this book is highly praised would be an obvious understatement. Fahrenheit 451 is still used widely today in almost every grade level that includes middle and upper level reading. As early as fourth graders start reading the novel and
It is extremely difficult to just search ‘realism in Fahrenheit 451’, it is literally impossible. Maybe the people of this time do not want to look at how it could so closely relate to the novel itself. Just by simply looking at a few articles about the novel, an article popped up called ’10 Ray Bradbury predictions that came true’. Immediately taking interest, it appears that it is not exclusively about Fahrenheit 451. However, there are quite a few things mentioned in the article that are going to be used in this paper to be used as more proof that the novel Farenheit 451 is what we are living in