Theme Project

Hey you're, um, Bob from Ms. Delaney's Class. And you're Tim. Yeah! Fancy Meeting you here. So your reading Fahrenheit 451. Yeah. Have you ever thought society seems to resemble the one in the book? Yeah. Sometimes. Yeah you know like in our society people are always spending their time on frivolous entertainment. You make a good point Tim our society does seem to spend lots of their time on entertainment. Like in the book people are always wearing earbuds(earphones). You make an equitable example Bob, also in the book Mildred is attached to the T.V. parlor, she rarely turned it off, likewise today's T.V. supplies us with 24/7 entertainment. Not that good of entertainment really. Precisely Tim. Now we have found more ways to entertain ourselves. Now days we have smart phones, the Internet and video games. People seem to be atached to their smartphones like Mildred was attached to the t.v. parlor. Small and portable, most people are supplied by the entertainment by their smart phones almost everywhere. That proves your point Tim. Totally Bob. Yeah, I think that one of the themes of Fahrenheit can really connect to our socciety You mean the theme "If all a person has is entertainment all a person has is nothing." Pretty much sums it up. We have plenty of entertainment but no leisure, no time to reflect on ourselves and barely any self consciousness. What's up with that? I agree. We don't have time to reflect. Very true Tim. Like in the book people don't have leisure. Take that guy for example, he could have been reflecting on stuff instead of beeing hooked on his smart phone. Like the book said "The mind drinks less and less." True. But you know one of the themes of Fahrenheit 451 was the dispute between being happy and being intellectual. Because some people might argue that knowledge can only make you sad. Like when Montag started to pursue knowledge when he started to read books he lost his job wife and life. Yeah but in the end the pursuit of knowledge made him meet with people that had the same desires as him it even made him escape a horrible fate. Like the theme of the whole idea was "Knowledge can come at a price but at the end it can show you the path to true happiness." Bradbury makes a persuasive argument Bob. You know another way we are stating to resemble Fahrenheit's society? We seem to getting more violent like their society that killed for fun. We seem to be killing for fun in our own ways. All those new games like Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed are based on the entertainment of killing. You know that's pretty legit Bob. So don't act like Fahrenheit's society. Take time to reflect on yourselves. And read more often. Don't be violent.