My project is supposed to be a newspaper article, but when I uploaded it the header messed everything up so I had to go back and take it out. But at the top it's supposed to say "The Washington Press" and under that the title of the article should be "Technology's Effect On Our Community"
Suppose the local community organization realized that people have stopped showing up for community events and more and more people have been staying at home with their TV's and computers. No one is going to concerts, art shows, and they have come to you (a newspaper reporter), asking you to make an appeal to the people that to be a community we need to get more out there and not just be at home 24/7.
In the novel Fahrenheit 451, everyone is obsessed with their TVs, as well as in my article. Guy Montag lives in a world where so many people around him are constantly with their wall-sized televisions, interacting with them as if they were real. He breaks free from that group of people, not afraid to be different from everyone else.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Fahrenheit 451
In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag lives in a world that is completely flipped upside down from the world we live in. Montag's boss seems to believe that burning everything bad, anything that may get an idea in their head, can solve all problems. "Ten minutes after death a man's a speck of black dust. Let's not quibble over individuals with memoriums. Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean." (60) Their government wants no one to have their own thoughts, and everyone under their control. They believe if one person gets an idea in their head, many more could as well, and their whole government would come crashing down.
While in Guy's world free thought is a horrible thing, it is something that is encouraged in ours. We have the freedom of speech, and the freedom of press. For us, anyone is allowed to say or write what they believe. Books are treasured by many, and millions are published each day. In the ironic world in Fahrenheit 451, books are banned unless distributed by the government. People found with books are punished, and many have their homes burned down along as well. As the novel progresses, Montag begins to become like the people he punishes for a living, and he starts to wonder if what his government does is right or not.
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