Ray Bradbury

Although Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451, in only 18 days total, he has prooven himself an incredible and influential author. Ray Bradbury shows his audience how dependent our culture is on technology. In his interviews he tells us that tv is a bad thing, and that is replacing books in our culture. I strongly disagree with this statement. The literary rate of people in the United States is very high, and because of our media authors are receiving more credit than ever. Newspapers, talk shows, and public television help new authors get their name out.

Ray Bradbury has very strong ideas about how much technology has negatively impacted our culture. Because of these strong ideas, Bradbury has created an influential piece of literature called Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury himself, said that he represents Clarice. They have in common a love of life and enjoyment of literature. Although Bradbury created this novel and received many awards for it, I see him as very hypocritical. During an interview Bradbury talks about how harmful television is for our culture... WHILE HIS TV IS ON. He did have enough respect for the interviewers, to kindly mute his program during his interview. He also has a website which he uses to share his strong ideas with the world. How is he not hypocritical??? I personally feel, that even though Bradbury is an excellent writer and has created many pieces of literature that have influenced our culture, he is a very hypocritical person.

Farenheit 451

Farenheit 451 is an entertaining story, with a powerful meaning. The moral of this novel, is that life isn't worth living unless your living it the way you want to. One character in this story perfectly represents living your life on your beliefs. Her name is Clarice.

Clarice inspires Montag with her joyfulness and love of life,to question his own happiness. He realizes that he doesn't even love his wife, and probably never did. He also realizes that if he continues his job of being a fireman, he will never be happy. He also begins to question the culture of the world he lives in. In a world where no one is allowed to have or even read books, the knowledge of the people is dependedent on what they learn from television. Clarice makes Montag question this. Another important theme shown throughout Farenheit 451, is the idea our culture is depending on technology too much. This is represented in the book mainly by Millie. She truly believes that the TVs in her parlor are her family!

The themes represented in this novel, are shown through the culture. Clarice changed Montag's life, even though she barely knew him. She made him think twice about his life, and was the most influential character in the story.