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Fahrenheit 451: If Books Could Talk
If Books Could Talk Reading is something Society has grown a custom too but just think what our Society would be like if there were no books allowed. In Fahrenheit 451 By: Ray Bradbury books are illegal. If anyone gets caught with a book Captain Beatty and his crew will try to burn everything they can get there hands on. In the book Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury illustrates how books affect how people act towards other, and how they start to ponder their decisions in life. In the book Fahrenheit 451 Guy doesn’t even think about how him and Mildred act until, he talks to Clarisse. Guy realizes that him and Clarisse have a lot more in common than him and Mildred. Guy realizes that Mildred is closer to her Parlor family than she is to him. “I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read." (Bradbury 78). Guy realizes Mildred is more …show more content…
If technology wasn’t so advanced then Mildred and Montag would’ve had a happy marriage. “Will you turn the parlor off? He asked. That’s my family” (Bradbury 44). Mildred loves her fake tv family more than her caring husband. She’d rather him and all of his books be gone and have the parlor. Mildred accuses Guy of acting like he’s sick but she only wants him to go back to work so he can buy more family. If Mildred there were books and Mildred realized how she acted she would talk to him more. If books were not in our society our way of life would be like the book Fahrenheit 451 and we would not be happy we would result to not talking and our society would fail. This is important because we want our society to last as long as possible and if everyone is independent and does not talk to anybody then earth would not be as simple as it is
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