Comparing Fahrenheit 451 and Modern American Society :: Comparison Compare Contrast Essays

Fahrenheit 451 Similarities to American Society   Fahrenheit 451 is a apprehension fiction book that still reflects to our current world. Bradbury does a nice job predicting what the world would be like in the future the future for his time block and for ours as well. The society Bradbury describes is, in many ways, like the one we are living in now.   We are always demanding more advanced machinery, and from the past, we have adult into a much more technological society. Lately, more and more plurality not only want more technology, they want them to be quicker. Things such as quicker computers, quicker connections to the internet, better cell phone connections, pagers, cars with more power, voice mail, palm pilots, etc. are in greater demand. People dont want to neutralise time anymore. We want things done quicker without as much effort. We want things to take less time to do them so we can have more time for other things. Their society is exactly like ours. Besides having advanced technological machines, they also have much larger speed limits, so people could get where they want a lot faster. Clarisse and Montag make it obvious to the reader that they live in a fast-paced world when they first meet for each one other. Before Clarisse runs into her house, they notice how fast drivers go that they dont know what grass is, or flowers because they never slang them slowly, she said. If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes hed say, thats grass A pink blur Thats a rose garden White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows. My uncle drove slowly on a highway once. He drove forty miles an hour and they jailed him for two days(9). Their speed limit is so high that everything that they see seems like blurs. They never see objects they only see colors. Our speed limit isnt as high as theirs is, but people usually go much faster than the speed limit is.   Another undercoat their society reflects the one we live in is that the people there are b ecoming more and more violent towards each other. Clarisse tells Montag that shes afraid of children my own age. They come out each other... Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car wrecks. Im afraid of them and they dont like me because Im afraid (30).