Fahrenheit 451 - 12

In my opinion, I believe the author of Fahrenheit 451 must have very good values and moral standards. I think he wrote his book showing the negative things about our society, except he put them to the extreme. I think he did this to help the reader see how awful it is and identify that the things that are happening are bad, and then see that those things are happening in our society, but just in different ways and on a smaller scale.

I believe that Ray Bradbury's perspective in writing this book was that he was against all of the bad things that were happening in our society and wanted to portray that to others in a way that they could understand and realize the reality of. Since he did not want those things to happen, he had much knowledge of the things, and amped them up so that it would show the reality of the bad things and help the reader to realize that those things are bad in nature and can ruin families, friendships, societies, and countries.

Fahrenheit 451 confronts how people deal with issues such as family, character, integrity, morals, time management, electronics, fun, leisure, pleasure, laziness, etc. In the book, it shows people who do not manage their time well, instead they do whatever they please and do not spend time doing important things. The book also tells of people who have no character or moral standards and do not value family or helping others. This book shows many people who simply live for themselves.

I think Ray Bradbury's focus on the book was to show what living for yourself can do to the society as a whole, and to show the damage that can happen when you try to run from your responsibilities and consequences. He portrays those things by showing the behavior of the people in the society that he writes about. They do not solve any of their problems, instead the burn them. And most of the people in the city live as sluggards and live a life that only touches the surface and does not go deep at all.

I think another thing he wanted us to realize that being fake and only talking about things on the surface and never going deep with people and having hard conversations or being vulnerable can lead to a sad and desolate world of fake people

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. Print.