Warnings that the author is trying to get across

I believe that this book can be a warning of what could actually happen far in the future. Slowly in our world, individual’s freedoms are being taken away. Many of these freedoms being taken away are due to the ‘Patriot Act.’ The patriot act takes away our freedoms, and can intrude on our private life. This book could be a warning of how something such as the ‘Patriot Act’ can escalate and eventually turn into something way more severe, eventually, possibly turning the world into what has happened to the world in the book, a dystopian world. The dystopian world is run by an overpowering government which creates an awful place for a society to live in. This book shows what could happen to our world far into the future, and if our freedoms continue to be taken away, one day the world will become a dystopia.

Parallels between the world of the book and our world

This book shows parallels between our world and the future, dystopian world of Fahrenheit 451. In the book, the government tries to erase the past by having firemen burn books. They believe that by burning books, there will be less evidence of the past and people won’t know how things used to be. So they burn all the written evidence, and as more and more books are burnt, people will slowly know less and less information of the past, and when the point comes, they the society knows nothing about the past, the government will be able to have stricter control of everyone. Because if people know more about the past, and the government tries to take stricter control, there will be more chance of an outbreak among the society against the government. Like I said in the previous paragraph, the patriot act can escalate into what may someday be a world similar to the dystopia in the book. Now the government in our world and get our bank records, internet records, tap into our private phone calls, and even randomly search us. All of these are threats of our personal freedom which we are supposed to have in our nation. Our freedom is being slowly taken away, and can one day be gone. This is a parallel to the book, the fact that our personal freedom is being taken away to the point that the world can possible end up as a dystopia.

Important ideas and learning from your classmates

Doing the blogs was definitely very helpful. With there being pages posted by other classmates, on the same book, allow you to get a better understanding of different ideas which help reinforce your own thoughts for postings and other activities based on the book. Reading classmate’s blogs, which have similar ideas as yours, helps you compare differences and similarities between your thoughts, and helps you get a deeper understanding of things. Also, if while reading the book, something isn’t clear, you can go on the blog and read someone’s posting to help clarify things for you.