We are reading Fahrenheit 451, a short novel that features a "dystopia" where American citizens in the future, by their own choice, don't read books or talk about ideas. In this society, their fire fighters burn books instead of put out fires because books contradict each other, the people in them aren't real, and the ideas and words in them might cause pain. Rather than read, citizens "[sit] by in a drug-induced and media-saturated indifference." One brave fire fighter, Montag, realizes he is unhappy and tries to change his life and society. Will he succeed?
National Endowment for the Arts "Big Read" Fahrenheit 451
No comments:
Post a Comment