Persuasive Essay On Fahrenheit 451

In Sherman Alexie’s poem “The Facebook Sonnet” Alexie brings up a controversy, over all social media because it absorbs society into the depths of dark unknowns and prevents physical face to face communication. Even though Facebook allows people to stay up to date with friends, whether they be new or deep-rooted, the platform tears its users away from substantial social interaction with others. People can connect to the world by the click of the mouse and know what is going on at any given time. Social media requires ones everlasting attention, and the addiction is almost comparable to that of a cigarette, one cannot give it up and is always thinking about when one can check it again. People become so caught up in trying to perceive what everyone else is doing, they forget that they have a reality to live and fail to maintain real relationships. “The Facebook Sonnet” belittles the social media platform by emphasizing how obsessed society is with making themselves look perfect for the screen. One is either gripping to their past or obsessing over the present.

In the year 1953, Ray Bradbury published a book titled Fahrenheit 451. This book explores a dystopian world where houses are completely fireproof, and instead of putting out fires, firemen start them. They do this for one reason, which is to destroy all books. The author has many things he wanted to convey, one of which is that books are people. The theme of Fahrenheit 451 is that books encompass the author’s entire life and their opinions. Along with this, Bradbury was trying to show that by reading a book, the reader also shares these experiences.

Fahrenheit 451 is often put in the genre of fiction, but should it really be placed there? In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury does not hesitate to exaggerate and explicitly state his beliefs. Bradbury portrays through mass media, censorship, and the divide between distraction and happiness. Fahrenheit 451, is a novel written by Ray Bradbury that shows Bradbury’s imagination and thoughts on a dystopian future. The novel is set as America is going through with it’s second atomic war, and the main character Guy Montag is a firefighter. However, firefighters in this novel burn things, like books. Books in this era are illegal, and owners are always arrested or burned along with their books. In this novel, Bradbury, uses

As human beings with personal struggles, as well as those within society, things that come easy to us are often not valued as much as those we struggle for. This is true because when one achieves a feat he has been working towards, the sense of accomplishment combined withe the achievement is valued. Additionally, anything that comes easily is trivial and often taken for granted. Examples of this can be found in the Civil Rights Movement and the book Fahrenheit 451.

Social media has become one of the greatest developments of human technology history. In today’s society, human are surrounding by the social media and wireless devices. In Shannon Matesky’s spoken word poem “MySpace”, the poet explains “physical contact is more important than our number of contacts” (Matesky). According to the poet, Shannon Matesky successfully redefines the word “Myspace” from a formal definition of “the distance from other people or things that a person needs in order to remain comfortable” (Merriam-Webster), to an operational definition of the contact created on the social media. People now forget how to stay with face-to-face relationship, social media become the new way of communication. “We can’t deal with the face-to-face so we let technology replace the space that people are supposed to fill”(Matesky), said Matesky, we are losing the ability to connect each individual face to face, and socially connection has been taking over through social media by using technologic device. Shannon Matesky has successfully redefined the actual meaning of “Myspace” from the distance between two to the space one’s create on the social media. MySpace no longer refers to distance between two, but to

In Stephen Marche’s article, “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” points out many reasons to which social media is making us lonely. One reason why social media is making us lonely is because we are so focused on the internet and we forget what is going on around us. Another reason is because we can see how our friends on Facebook are having a great life and we become lonely because our life is not as interesting as theirs. Even though I disagree with the author’s conclusion that social media is making us lonely, there is ample evidence to support my belief that the internet can also be a tool for communication.

When I read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, I felt very depressed and angry over the idea of burning books. In Fahrenheit 451 society it is against the law to read or own books. If you do, you could go to jail or be killed. And burning down houses, if there are books in them, is also acceptable. But in real life burning houses and books is not good. Fahrenheit 451 society and our world are very different because they have different laws and rules. Another example of how Fahrenheit 451 and our society are different is that in the book it was not against the law to run over someone, but in our society it is against the law.

Imagine living in a world where books are looked upon as evil. Well, Ray Bradbury wrote a novel on a dystopian world in which firemen would burn any books they see including the house. The reason Bradbury did this is to illustrate his beliefs that mankind was forgetting about books and moving to the next generation. In the 1950s new colored televisions became the new sensation for the world and everybody was watching movies and TV shows instead of reading books. In fact many people even started to hate them. Another thing that was big for the new generation was the Korean War. The Korean War had the world in constant fear of nuclear weapons. The medical field developed quickly and efficiently which led to the first organ transplant and exceptional

Is there an idea you would be willing to die for? The answer to this question is simple. Yes. I would gladly give up my life for my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. To give your life for something you love is an incredible act of self sacrifice. When you have something you believe in, you have a true reason to live . If someone had nothing to believe in they wouldn't be doing anything of value. That person would become passive.

I am going to agree because I personally believe that no one is going to be perfect and able to always make the right decisions and judgements. Just because they are leaders or experts doesn't make their claims automatically correct. It is necessary for people to challenge against the authority they are disagree to make it better for other people. Just as the book Fahrenheit 451, and the slavery time period in America.

Fahrenheit 451 shows us to critically think. Where there are soulless media like the ones on the parlor walls. We need time to think and to have quality information. Let’s place this in our society. Where we take many things for granted and do entertainment with no point, with no direction. Where some people do not take time to think, to learn from the past and to learn from books. Do we in our lives, take time to stop and think? Or do we watch the propaganda on the parlor walls or the tv, our phones, the screens of our computer?

In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, a futuristic society sends a message about censorship when Guy Montag and others of that time period are forbidden to read, which discourages them from thinking for themselves. Ray Bradbury wrote books and short stories that reveal powerful messages, including his popular novel Fahrenheit 451. Transformation and loneliness are common themes found in his novels and short stories, which are based on his own life, because he was introduced to books at a young age and always went to the public library with his brother. Since he was gifted in writing, he joined the Los Angeles Science Fiction League as age 15 (“Fahrenheit” ). In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury censors his characters by making up laws so they are not allowed to read, to send powerful messages when firemen burn books to get rid of society’s freedom.

When Bradbury wrote, “fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over,” he meant that the fictional stories that authors write—the made up characters, plot, setting—will convey a theme, a message, that helps the reader realize the true things about their society or surroundings. Many times, a book may have unrealistic plots and settings, however it’ll still convey a theme that’s applicable to real life and to the reader, and help guide the reader to many revelations about real life—the ‘truth’ in our society and lives. I agree with this idea because although many books are written for entertainment purposes, and are composed of unrealistic plots and events, they often send a message to the reader, and teach them about life lessons.

People should be given the freedom to think outside the box and outsmart technology. In the book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the society isn’t given an option to think or read books, but a man named Guy Montag decides to break that law and make a change in the community. In comparison to the real world, the government is taking away the opportunity to think by forbidding books, censoring many ideas to prevent people from wanting to see the outside world, and by letting technology take over people’s minds and attention.

I missed those times when I could chase the bus with my friends, when people cared about not just their own lives, but also their surroundings, and when people sat and socialized with one another before mobile devices were invented. It’s ironic how social media has done nothing but make us antisocial, and touch screens have caused us to lose touch with each other. Just like no one noticed the weary old senior who wished for nothing but a seat, no one would ever notice a lonely, depressed boy who was in pain and wished for nothing but