Ray Bradbury gives good examples in the book Fahrenheit 451 of people becoming complacent. For example Mildred, she was what he consider numb, meaning she was there but she wasn’t really there. Mildred would refer to the parlor as her family. All she did was watch TV and never acknowledge her husband Montag when he needed her the most.
Another example is when Montag was on the bus with a book in hands and everyone stared at him with they’re seashell in they’re ears thinking “what the heck is he doing!” they were thinking there was something wrong with Montag when really there was something wrong with them, but they’re so out of it they don’t even notice the changes they are making.
Today we can see things like this happen all the time. I ride the bus every morning to get to school and as I looked around I saw that many kids were lessening to they’re iPods rather than reading a book or finishing homework. That’s when I noticed that things have defiantly changed just like Ray Bradbury had predicted. Everyone owns a TV and almost everyone has a internet access at home and families don’t notice that its tearing them apart. Instead of going on a walk they stay home and watch TV, play video games or play games in the computer. And they stop communicating and doing things together.
All this new technology is not making things easer but making thing a lot more complicated. Society thinks we need all this high tec. when truth is we don’t! Half of the things we don’t need nor use in our daily lives. In my family we only have TVs in the family rooms but not in our rooms because if we were to have them in our rooms all me and my sisters would do is stay in our rooms watching TV. If things are going bad now think how much worst is going to be in the future?
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This book can help with change. Like the example you gave saying that Montag was on the bus with a book in his hands everyone stared at him. Some people don't understand differences that everyone has. Everybody is different in a way.
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