Monday, January 22, 2007

Fahrenheit451-2

Are there are any current situations in the world that relate to the novel? what are they, and how do they relate? does the novel shed any light on how current situations could be resolved or "fixed"?
There are current situations in the world that relate to the novel. For instance, In Fahrenheit 451 the main character named Montag has a problem with his wife. Their relationship is not stabled. Montag question was why he loved her or did he even love her. Kids in Africa wouldn’t have enough money to go to a school to get their education, but in the story people would burn up the books and not know anything about the society. Also in the book, suicide was not a big deal, but in our current world it still is instead it isn't important like it used to be. We sort of ignore suicide now days because it happen a lot and people are used to it for some reason. There are going to be better technologies and the technologies would take over, so people won’t have to worry about anything serious. The setting of this book is they people are in war but the people don't care. Right now people are like that. They don't so much about the war now days. Most of them are the theme of dystopian. Our life itself is dystopian. This is how the book and the current life related. Our life can be like Fahrenheit 451 if we don’t care about the little stuff and only think about the big stuff in life. Current situations could be resolved by fixing are bad behaviors of how we live. We should Notice what we have done before and what we have not done these days.

3 comments:

Beginning with all new heart (Ray) said...

Hi, Margaret!
I agree with you on the point that nowadays people consider only big things, but not much small things. There were several suicides by female entertainers in Korea, but people consider suicide as not a big problem because it became too common. Although suicide cannot be justified, I agree that if people do not look back the dark side of society and try to change the world, it will soon became dystopian society.

African Globe Trotters. said...

Super ideas and well written. Mrs.Mc

Jean Eun Jin Lee. said...

I TOTALLY agree with you. Technology is going to rule over us! Oh no! I was shocked that people don't consider suicide seriously these days. One life that a person has is gone! This is crazy! Ugh...I think we need a hero.
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