Religion In Fahrenheit 451

In a world in which at birth we colour code our children based upon their external genitalia in determination of their future, children of colour are shot repeatedly for playing with a toy gun, or simply walking alone at night, the oceans are polluted, the ozone layer is depleting, and there are simultaneously people dying of obesity and starvation, it can often feel as though we are living in a dystopian society, such as that of Fahrenheit 451, in which you can be arrested simply for walking alone at night, or doing something as simple as reading. In Fahrenheit 451, the suicide respondence team tells Guy Montag that they have nine or ten calls in a night. According to AFSP.org, there are, on average, 117 suicides per day.
Daily both adults and minors are exposed to and numbed by
We also tend to shame people for their activism, saying that they are either insane, or incompetent. Those people who have been shamed often tend to come to the conclusion that being knowledgeable, or educated, is a bad thing.These people then proceed to shame knowledgeable or educated persons, calling them snooty, pretentious, or “eggheads” which is defined as “a derogatory term for a studious, educated or knowledgeable person.” By Google. With all of this shame going around, how can a person be expected to desire to take part in the positive change in their community, intellectual and personal activities, and more fulfilling experiences as a whole, if they believe that these experiences will not make them a better person, but rather worsen them? We have even created the label overachiever, and tryhard, to define persons who put in a higher standard of work, study harder, or reach a standard above expectations. This relates to Bradbury’s novel because in Beatty’s speech, he states that shame in schools to children who were more studious, or, overachievers, was