Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Ray Bradbury: Fiction or Reality?

Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 which many people have misunderstood the true meaning of the book. Some people think the book is mainly about government censorship. In interview three, he said that was his book is nothing about government censorship. It is more like explain the fear of technology on the future. By the way in the 1st and 2ND interview, he said the characters came to him and talked to him. He wrote just what they told him in his head. He didn't write anything bad about the government.
Another question arise from this book. Is Ray Bradbury's fantasy coming true or was it a reality? I believe that image of the world is not happening yet, but may happen if we keep going the way were going. Ray Bradbury feared that the Television and technology would ruin children. Today, children don't read books anymore. They watch non-stop marathons on television. They play for hours on video games and computer games. Now when children want to read, they point a finger and the book reads to them. This technology will lead us to become lazy and uneducated like the world in Fahrenheit. I will admit that even though it may not be seen now, Ray Bradbury's idea of the future can become a reality if the people continue to depend on technology.

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