Beatty wishes to deter Montag from reading, but his speech has the opposite effect. Although he tries to shrug his actions off as a joke, he visibly upsets the women, who leave the house and immediately turn him in to the firemen. Instead of obeying, Montag sets Beatty on fire and flees. Montag escapes the city, floating down a river that ushers him out of the city and into the country. There he meets a roving band of like-minded intellectuals who devote their lives to preserving great books by committing them to memory.
The novel concludes with a bomb falling on the city, reducing it to rubble. The band of intellectuals, led by Montag, head toward the destroyed city, hoping to rebuild. Although he has yet to master the information he receives from books, his thinking undergoes enough of a change to enable him to reject his society and embrace the possibility of a new one.
Whereas the previous society collapsed due to its refusal of knowledge, knowledge will serve as the foundation for the new society. Ace your assignments with our guide to Fahrenheit ! SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Why did the government ban books? Instead, he insisted, the book was written at the dawn of the television age and was a cautionary tale of how society could well reach to TV as a sort of opiate. Fahrenheit , Bradbury said, was a depiction of a society willfully dumbing itself down by staring at screens, stuffing its collective consciousness with useless factoids, empty ideas and throwaway reality.
Bradbury forewarned us all of the coming dawn of the inch flat-screen culture we inhabit today. Some readers were disappointed by Bradbury's comments.
Internet message boards crackled with spirited debates on the meaning of the novel. I worked with Bradbury for 12 years as his authorized biographer. I spent hundreds and hundreds of hours in conversation with the man. We talked at his home into the small hours on many an occasion.
I drove him across Los Angeles countless days — time-traveling sojourns down his memory lane. Bradbury grew up near Hollywood during its golden era and loved to revisit memories with me. We spoke at length about his love of books, reading and libraries. I went to the White House with him in when he was given the Medal of Arts.
Because of this singular, decidedly complex relationship between biographer and subject, people often inquire about my opinions of Fahrenheit and its themes. Did Bradbury really mean it when he said his book was not about censorship? Could this great book, so long placed in the pantheon of anti-censorship literature, not be about censorship at all? Because of this, he has been hailed as a sort of technological soothsayer. Yet Bradbury never once drove an automobile himself. He never owned a computer, and he deemed the Internet a towering confluence of mostly inane chatter.
Another example of his contradictory nature: Bradbury insisted to me that an older writer should never go back and rewrite his earlier published work. Yet his canon is peppered with revised versions of stories, altered tales rewritten at various stages of his career to better suit connected story cycles.
In , Bradbury wrote his first television script, beginning a long and successful run of writing for the new and burgeoning medium including eight scripts for Alfred Hitchcock Presents and three for The Twilight Zone.
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