Fahrenheit 451: the Future Isn’t Bright, It’s Burning

Fahrenheit 451 The Future Isnt Bright, Its Burning Censorship happens each around us, even if most fall apartt realize it. People al government agencys think of it as close to far off concept, something that only happens in dictatorships or in Communism, such(prenominal) as in North Korea, entirely as Fahrenheit 451shows us, it is often closer to home than one might think. In it, people slang become adorefully ignorant to the world around them after(prenominal) the judicature bans books, and all other types of entertainment dissolve into flashes of sound and light, nothing to a greater extent than a pit stop until the next bit of fun comes along.Guy Montag is a fireman whose job it is to have a fit books. He loves his job, the brightness and destruction and yearning of the fire that consumes the books. That is, until he meets a teenage girl named Clarisse who is strange to him, a girl who thinks for herself. She and Montag walk home and she talks of of all timeything, her family, how she thinks, how the world is always passing game to fast, and then at the end, she asks a question that makes Montag question his entire manner She started up her walk. Then she seemed to remember something and came back to look at him with wonder and curiosity. Are you happy? she said. (Bradury, 10) After that, Montags eyes are unawares opened far wider than ever before. He starts to see things in a different light, even his wife, Mildred. He starts to see how empty and ignorant she is, and wonders how she got that way and how he never noticed. He wonders how everyone got that way. He sees everyone is as empty as the woman he sleeps next to every night, how no one notices anything any longer except their parlor walls and their Seashell radios. How did we get so empty? .. Who takes it step to the fore of you? (Bradbury, 44) he thinks after his wife passelnot even remember how they met. That was when he realized he doesnt really know his own wife. Montag thinks h e loves his wife, he believes it with all his heart, or at least he wants to. However, the more he watches her, the more he realizes she is a stranger to him, and he doesnt know how you can love someone youve never truly met. He slowly figures out that his wife isnt his at all, not really, not now that he can see.When he was blind and ignorant, he had indeed loved her, but now that he knew something of the world, she became a strange creature to him. Once Montag realizes this, he becomes slowly detached from Mildred, though he still cares for her in a strange way, and though he knows he doesnt love her in the way he thought he did for so many years, he still wants to believe he does. He still wants to pretend. When he leaves her after burning Beatty and the city is bombed, he still cries for her. He loves her even as he feels nothing.In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury paints a picture of humanity and society that is far too painstakingly true. Most people are happier in their ignorance tha n they could ever be with knowledge, even as that ignorance slowly kills them. Slowly, people are pity less and less intimately books and and learning and more and more about the next big thing, zooming from one distraction to the next. Eventually, Bradburys book exit become a reality for us all, and it too will burn in the piles. Works Cited Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York Del Rey Books, 1991. Print.