Fahrenhiet 451 - Free Week

For my free blog this week, I chose to do it on the second part of Fahrenheit 451. Last Blog, I lift off where Clarissa was killed and how she is the opposite of Mildred. Throughout the book, Ray Bradbury has many technological predictions. It’s awesome how someone could write a book in the fifties-sixties and it’s a futuristic book and today his predictions came true. Such as a robot dog, ear buds, wall televisions, and even the nuclear bomb. He tried to make the book symbolize the cold war and it does in a few ways. Such as, he uses “censorship” throughout most of the book. People were not allowed to do whatever they wanted; their “fire-proof” houses were burned down from the books. The books’ ending is quite interesting, it ends with a nuclear bomb hitting the city and Montag was watching from the woods, with the people who had memorized entire books. They state that they are going to start a new world and try to redo things without judging and everyone being happy. I recently just finished a paper on happiness in the book, and for mine I chose to write about Beatty and his mind games towards Montag. He sort of tricked Montag into doing what he wanted throughout the book, such as burning the houses, he claimed that’s what we have always done. Beatty was the smartest character in the book, he explained the books to Montag, and used his knowledge to “better” the world. Overall, the book was pretty different. I liked it some ways, but the overall story was quite bizarre.