Fahrenheit 451

Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451 was very hard for me to follow. If I'am not capable to figure out the time period in books, it really bothers me. In this book it never really gives any hints to what point in time you are. I liked it for some reason though, it was really shocking how the main character, Guy Montage's outlook on the world is pretty accurate. Many people become numb to their surroundings and look for a way out, they ignore everything around them for awhile and then have a sudden shock of realization. That puvalrizing wave shock strucks there inspiration to try to fix things in this world, try to put pieces back to together and make things happy. Even though there goal might not be for the world but just themselves. Some times there inspirtation may be crazy, but they crave for something drastic to change and make them better again. They are starve for just a little rush of adrenaline. This is what happened to Guy Montag.

Montag was bored with his life, until he met his new captivating neighbor, Clarisse McClennan. She is like an angel on Earth, a weird one though. She completely opens Montag's eyes and he realizies after she dies that he needs something better in life, he wants to heal and leave a footprint in life. His job is to burn books for a living, he wears a Salamader on his yellow jacket everyday. He is what you would call a fireman, but he actually starts the fires instead of preventing the blazing fires, he does this because having the possesion of books is a violation against the law. Clarisse shows him little things in life and asks him pecilur questions, for example if he ever reads any of the books he burns.

He takes a book home and begins to read it, which changes everything. This crime he does brings in many types of new futuristic items. Many people belive that by this book being written has now became a reality in our days because of Bradbury's novel. I dont believe that this book contributed all that much to shaping our world today. This book is very famous and all but I dont think that scientists and technogolists went around reading literature, instead of investing all of there time into science and tenchonoly, there wouldnt be any new inventions if they did that, we would just end up with alot more books than newer technology .In the book it describes a totally invincible, robotic 'Hound' that is able to track down anything you put infront of it. Today we do not have those. In the book it shows the world's attitude to books, which are of not of importantce to them. Everyone believes they are just a pile of waste taking up space, they dont believe that they contain any information. Which is also very NOT true, to get rid of books in our schools today, the government would probably have to be over thrown for that to happen. I just dont believe that this small 167 paged book could possibly have shaped our world today. This is just my opinion on the topic though, who knows maybe it did, heck the Bible COMPLETELY changed our world, without it who could imagine how different our world would be today.

Star Trek

It amazed me how Star Trek was so accurate about the future, which now be our modern days but to them 2010 was 50 years ahead of their time. In just watching one episode they showed boxes that had magical buttons, and when you pressed them food appeard in the split of a second! The showed other interesting gadgets like communicators and guns that would beam people, into capturing them. The also had things that would transport you from place to place, as if you were I Dream of Jeannie. You were able to appear anywhere you want in just seconds. All of the technology they showed on the old show, was pin point on where our technology has went today.

Although everyone was amazed and anticipated having all of the incredible items on Star Trek, it is now an everyday thing for the world of 2010. We now have microwaves that automatically heat your food in seconds for you, our type of communicator are our pro-status cell phones, and now we have every type of weapon you could think of. The only thing we are waiting on now is to be able to transport yourself in a matter of seconds to any destination you prefer! Who knows what they will come out with in 2050!:)