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This 3 page paper discusses what Ray Bradbury was trying to warn us about in his novel “Fahrenheit 451.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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us about. Discussion Ray Bradbury says that people have grossly misinterpreted his classic book. Although it is easy to read it as a treatise on totalitarian governments censoring their citizens;
or as an indictment of the McCarthy witch hunts of the 1950s, the author insists it is not about any of this. Bradbury, who is living "in the creative and
industrial center of reality TV and one-hour dramas, says it is, in fact, a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature" (Johnston). The book is about a "fireman,"
Guy Montag, whose job it is to burn books and who finds himself questioning the necessity, and the ethics, of doing so. He is particularly shocked by an old woman
who would rather burn along with her house and her precious books than live without them (Bradbury). Finally, after hiding books himself-and being found out and pursued for it by
his former friends-Montag escapes from his "authoritarian culture" and joins "a community of individuals who memorize entire books so they will endure until society once again is willing to read"
(Johnston). At first glance its easy to see why critics and readers alike have seen this as a fable about totalitarianism, but Bradbury insists that its not. Instead, he
sees television as the thing that will eventually kill books, and that is what hes warning readers about (Johnston). He points out that news is no longer news, but "infotainment";
he worries about the impact of TV on "substance in the news. The front page of that days l.A. Times reported on the weekend box-office receipts for the third in
the Spider-Man series of movies, seeming to prove his point" (Johnston). Bradbury calls TV news broadcasts "useless," saying "They stuff you with so much useless information, you feel full"
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