“Fahrenheit 451” Compared to Modern Day Society

Fahrenheit 451 gives us a glimpse into a future where people are surrounded with instant gratification and constant entertainment. This is a future where books have become insignificant to their lifestyles and treated with disrespect. In Fahrenheit 451, we are introduced to a firefighter whose job is to rid his society of the ideals that books represent by burning them. Society feels threatened by the division between groups of people that results from reading books and sharing the ideals within….