Ray Bradbury Interviews

From the few interviews we read and watched about Ray Bradbury, I was able to learn alot about him and his reasons for doing certain things. I think that Fahrenheit 451 is a great contrast with who Ray is as a person, because of his message, "do what you love. love what you do." This message talks about living your life to the fullest while Fahrenheit 451 is all about people that don't really live at all. This shows how imaginitive Bradbury is and proves that it is like a "theatre" in his head. At one point in Ray's interview, he mentioned that in F451 Clarisse is him in a sense because of her love of life at such a young age, as Ray had. I think that what Ray is saying is that teaching children young will make them love life as it made both him and Clarisse love life.

Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 was a very interesting book to me, although I didn't like the forecast it had for our future. I hope and also believe that the people of our planet are smarter than to allow the government to take over and take all of our books away, to take away basically all of our knowledge. Yes, it's true that we have alot more technology today than many years ago, but it is also true that many more people are going to college and achieving degrees than in previous years, which is one of the ways the book is innacurate.
I believe that one of the main plots of the book was the idea that ignorance is not bliss. In Fahrenheit 451 most of the people are very ignorant about the fact that the government is taking away any chance they have of ever learning anything or broadening their view of life. Because the ignorant people know nothing but what they have always known, they do not understand that their is more to life than what they have. Like Guy in the beginning of the book, many realize that they are not happy but they have convinced themselves that they are. Clarisse on the other hand is not at all ignorant and is an extremely happy person.