Fahrenheit 451 question 1

1. Fahrenheit 451 was a revealing book. It shows the way Ray Bradbury values God. In the book God is portrayed as an old fashioned idea. God is a thing of the past. He is something from a book long, long ago. In the book religion itself is ancient. No one wanted to be responsible for their actions. All people wanted to do was watch television. To them the bible was just another book to be burned. There was nothing special about it. The bible was just a way to call an alarm. In the book there is no reverence for God, or his power. It shows that Bradbury had no care for God. It also reveals his attitude about books. I think that Bradbury had a deep respect for books and what they had to say. The whole story is about saving books. Bradbury had a love for books and knew that they were important. In Fahrenheit 451 the author portrays a world without books as a very lonesome place. The only reason most people visited each other was to watch television together. There was no real social quality in the visits. To me it seemed like a very dull, and lame place to live. It was obvious to me that books meant a lot to him. I could tell he was trying to stress the importance of books in our lives. Not only books though, but literature all together. He knew that if there were not different views in the world then everyone would be the same. If everyone is the same then no one is special. That is why Bradbury stressed the importance of books in Fahrenheit 451. The way the author valued books makes me realize how important they are to society. Books give us different views on subjects like politics and religion. I think it is good for people to know all the sides of an argument. As I said earlier if we all had the same view the world would be a much less exciting place. Since he wrote from a third person perspective it was interesting to read what Guy Montag thinking. It was kind of hard to follow the story at some points, but for the most part it was good.