Fahrenheit 451 Essay

  There are many ways Fahrenheit 451 can be connected with our everyday lives, and most of which were thought to never happen, and yet, here we are. One of the biggest parallels I noticed was the lack of communication between people throughout the book, but as the book progresses, we see that there are more people that are still "normal". Mildred barely knows anything about Montag, except that he exists, and even then, she will still be clueless about his presence. When the medics/mechanics arrive, they seem like attempted suicide is a norm in their society, and quite frankly, I can understand why. One reason may be because of the lack of attachment they require to stay professional, and the second being that they just don't care whether their patients die or not, its sad, really.
  My next reason would be the constant, repetitive, non-stop bombardment of advertising and marketing. The reason that parallel exists is because of the economy and the way they need to make their money, thus bringing the over-used cliché commercials we all know and hate. In the book, Momtag experienced massive amounts of ads that kept rolling over him like a wheel of purgatory. In our lives, gas stations, t.v. shows, cars, stores, walls, whole-freaking buildings, floors, windows, big events, hell, I've even seen pencils with ads on them, its everywhere and there is no escaping it, dare I say, it's inevitable.
   My next parallel would have to be the censorship (to a degree), mostly because of the school and how it works. See, the school is primed to teach students about the "history" of our so-called great nation, but I call b.s. The reason being that they block certain sections of history, leaving blips and gaps in the timelines, leaving nothing but questions. In the book, history is taught a completely different way, stating that firemen have always burned books, and that they were never saving people from fire. I'm not conspiring or anything, but who knows, the history we were taught may not be the history that actually happened. Schools no longer let students read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn because of its "racial insensitivity", or Catcher In the Rye, for its "negativity and filthy content", God's sakes, even Fahrenheit 451 has been censored in schools for going against religious beliefs.
   In conclusion (God, I sound a kiss-up), Fahrenheit 451 has theorized a lot of the future's downfalls and uprisings, but mostly downfalls, being the lack of social butterflies, or the abundance of god-awful advertisements, or the tainted history we may or not be being taught.

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