The future Awaits

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451 depicts one man’s struggle to rediscover the meaning of life in a society driven by technology once he is exposed to the one thing his profession deem to destroy, books. The main character Guy

Montag is on a journey to restore mankind’s faith in books, a challenging task yet once he is convinced of its relevance he lays it all on the line to protect it. Much like our society the author illustrates a society that is consumed by T.V and technology as a whole. Bradbury leaves the reader with the notion that television has dumb-down the mental compactly replacing the willingness to develop complex ideas with empty superficial desires. The author than depicts books as the ultimate sources of freedom because it gives the reader creative power to interpret information. I personally agree with this notion, most television shows do not require an enormous amount of thinking. A person is just simply being entertained by the bias information that is being feed. On the other hand, reading a book required a certain amount of comprehension and literacy that allow a person to think and form conclusions. Reading a book develops skills such as comprehension, vocabulary, writing and the list goes on. On the contrary television does not develop skills that allows for any critical thinking, but rather puts forth information that the viewer can choose to take in or not. Even with electronic book reader like Kindle I believe it takes away from the physical act of reading a book. There are some many skills that are being nurtured when you read that goes over look with an electronic book reader. For example as a child I learned to read with the help of hook-on phonics as embarrassing as it may sound I still use those techniques until today. You cannot learn or sound-out new words if there being told to you. To be physical engaged in a book provides a great value than any television or electronic reader can!