Fahrenheit 451
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Have you ever wondered what ignorance can lead to? Have you ever noticed how television has gotten very intellectually unchallenging? If you have ever asked any of these questions it would have probably led you to think of what our society would be like if it keeps on this declining track of intelligence. When Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451, he kept these ideals in mind. This novel takes place in a futuristic society yet was written in the 1950's, shortly after when televisions came out. It takes place in a typical metropolitan city in the United States of America. This novel could probably be thrown in the genre of science fiction. But the whole meaning of the novel was to show a civilization deprived of books and why it just doesn't work. It is shown that Mr. Bradbury's reasons for writing this book was to stress the importance of reading, stress the importance of asking questions, show us what a censored society without books would be like, and how life would be empty without books...