Fahrenheit Rising
Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time! I know, I have a lot of those! Of all the dystopian novels out there that people like to compare to the current day, this one might just be the most accurate to our day. Animal Farm, 1984, Alas Babylon, Hunger Games, Matched, Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, The Giver, and many others all have parallels to our current time and can be said to have accurate truths. After listening to Fahrenheit 451 again in preparation to teach my teen literature class: Seeing Society Through Classic Literature, I think we are living in Ray Bradbury's world. We may not have firefighters that start fires rather than put them out, but everything else in this book is our world today. Bradbury describes a world where no one talks to anyone, no one thinks anything, and no one really does anything meaningful. Bradbury loved literature and with the rising technology in the 1950s he was worried a great deal about ...