Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury: Literary Analysis

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Every time we peek into a book, we have faith that each mystery behind the tale will unfold in an engaging conclusion that will leave a mark upon us. Now imagine wiping knowledge off the surface of the earth, it’s like plucking the petals from every rose that ever grew in the world. The only thing left of a rose is the stem and no growth. Similar to books without them, there is no knowledge of any kind. Literature would just be a word with no actual evidence that it ever existed. Like the novel, Ray Bradbury wrote called “Fahrenheit 451”, although it’s a fiction novel, it takes place in a future dystopian American society, I can’t help but compare it to our reality. Can we expect for such thing to occur in this new era? Or has it slowly begun? Many questions to why literature matters, or the value of why we should read books. Maybe our future was made to perish knowledge and with it all books. Though I don’t quite believe that it is so. Many books have shown to prove otherwise. I believe the importance of books are being used to help connect, learn and grow. In the plot Bradbury describes a future society to be thoughtless humans with no sense of individualism. The protagonist is a …show more content…
We are set to read what is seen in social media, news or anything else that involves technology. Also, the feeling of books or smells of them no longer matter. For many book readers there is always a connection to how a book is remembered. Like a character in “Fahrenheit 451”, named Faber. He was a retired English professor that was an ally to Montag. He states, “Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy.” He compares the smell of books like a spice from another country. Many people can’t have the same experience because they have never had the same connection to feel beyond. To see more than just a book, but a book that holds all the secrets to the