Carleigh Barringer
Honors American Lit.
Period 4
October 30th, 2013
Fahrenheit 451 First Draft

In the book Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury tells the story of a futuristic society that burns books and interacts with parlor walls. Bradbury’s intentions were not to predict the future, but rather prevent this futuristic society from existing. Throughout the story, Montag is faced with reality while the people around him are oblivious to everything. His wife watches television an extensive amount of time every day. His wife’s friends could care less about their children, and the whole city is ignorant to the war happening. The people in Fahrenheit 451 are totally absorbed by technology, completely disconnected from emotion and utterly unaware of the violence their society portrays, much like our people today.
Technology in Fahrenheit 451 distracts and causes people to be oblivious to everything. Mildred, Montag’s wife, cannot seem to remove herself from her parlor room. She sits and interacts with her television for unhealthy periods of time without even realizing it. Mildred cannot seem to be bothered with anything besides playing her part in her TV shows. On page…, it says “______________________________________.” Mildred does not even care about the issue at hand or that she has almost died, all she wants to talk about is her shows. She is indifferent about herself taking a whole bottle of pills. In our world, people are on their phones twenty/four/seven. From personal experience I know, a teenager cannot be asked to put their phone down for more than three seconds without picking it back up. Parents are so distracted by phone calls or emails that they hardly pay much attention to their children. Our society today is corrupted by technology.
The corruption caused by technology in Fahrenheit 451 also leads to the disconnection of emotion in the book. The