What does the writing reveal about the author's values and attitudes? From what perspective does he/she write? "Fahrenheit 451 is basically about the direction that Ray Bradbury saw America going in during the 1950's. This novel is predominantly about his fear of the world losing its love for books. This is shown through the tendency to burn books in "Fahrenheit 451." Well it is more than a tendency, book burning's are actually quite popular. They happen numerous times throughout the novel. This novel explicitly tells us how much Ray Bradbury valued books. It shows us he values them as irreplaceable and tried to express that through "Fahrenheit 451." It also shows how much he did not value television. In the book, television has become a large part of everyone's lives. To big in the authors opinion. I believe that Ray Bradbury wrote this to express his fear that television might some day come to replace books. Ray Bradbury must not have had a very good attitude towards television and radio and such during his time. Color television had just been introduced around the time this book was written, and ,being the new thing, people were probably glued to it like duct tape on leg hair. No one had time to read a good book once television came around and you could simply watch the book right in front of you , in color no less. It appears that this scared Ray Bradbury, that all the precious literature of the world was slowly being replaced by technology. Imagine what he would do in this generation with Kindles and Nooks and such... He shared this fear with us through "Fahrenheit 451." The book is told from third person. We can see into the main characters thoughts, Guy (can I just say Guy is such an unusual first name...) Montag. We know all of his thoughts and feelings throughout "Fahrenheit 451," however, we only know his thoughts and no one else's. This makes it limited omniscient.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967. Print.
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