I write this review, the year is, We do not live in a perfect world in fact, in many ways we don't even live in a good world.
But one thing I believe with all my heart is that we live in a world which, on the whole, is better than it was fifty years ago.
Now, I know I'm writing with limited perspective and that progression and development hasn't been the same all over the globe and even the definition of those words can change depending on what part of the world you live in.
But here's what I do know: the average world life expectancy is higher, the infant mortality rate is lower, access to education is greater and the amount of countries that hold regular, fair elections has increased.
On average, people today are smarter than they were fifty years ago, And I know this is where older generations throw up their hands in indignation and start yelling about how exams were much harder in "their day" and they really had to work for it.
I am not disputing this, I have no idea if it's true or not, But what is true is that more people today than ever before are going on to further education after high school, the barriers that once stopped the working class from being as smart as society's more privileged members are slowly starting to break down bit by bit.
Literacy rates have been on the rise the whole world over:
It's true, We have entered the age of computers and electronics, social networking and personal media players, . . and the world has not ended, the robots haven't taken over and people haven't become so stupid that they feel the need to rage a war against books.
And this is the main reason why I think Bradbury's dystopian tale is out of date and ineffective.
The author was writing at a time when technology was really starting to get funky, the digital age was still decades away but people were doing all kinds of crazy things like listening to music with little cones plugged into their ears.
Bizarre.
Readers often choose to view Bradbury's story as one about censorship instead of technology because that allows a more modern reader to connect with the world portrayed.
But taken as it was intended, I just don't share the author's sentiments, Not all technology is good, but I'm of the opinion that the good outweighs the bad: medical advancements, entertainment, access to information via the internet.
. . I'm the very opposite of a technophobe because, in my opinion, forward is the way to go, And I'm sure it's because of the age I was born into, but I cannot relate to the apprehension that Bradbury feels when he tells of this true story note: this is not in the book:
"In writing the short novel FahrenheitI thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades.
But only a few weeks ago, in Beverly Hills one night, a husband and wife passed me, walking their dog.
I stood staring after them, absolutely stunned, The woman held in one hand a small cigarettepackagesized radio, its antenna quivering, From this sprang tiny copper wires which ended in a dainty cone plugged into her right ear, There she was, oblivious to man and dog, listening to far winds and whispers and soapopera cries, sleepwalking, helped up and down curbs by a husband who might just as well not have been there.
This was not fiction. "
I know many still think today that we are becoming a completely unsociable species because of mobile/cell phones, social networking sites, etc.
but I have made friends from all over the world thanks to technology, I have talked to people that fifty years ago I would never have known, I have learned about different cultures and ways of life because I have access to most areas of the world through the web.
So, no, I'm not scared of this socalled technological threat that is somehow going to turn our brains to mush and create a society where we cannot concentrate long enough to read a book.
And here is where I finally get on to details of this novel,
What I am supposed to believe in here is that because of technology humanity has become so stupid that they couldn't concentrate on books.
So books were simplified at first for easier understanding, then banned, then burnt, Why I am okay with the realistic aspect of "people have short attention spans because of technology so they don't want to read books", but why burn books I don't see why this would need to happen and why it would become a criminal offense to have books in your home.
This is where I understand why so many people prefer to apply this novel's message to censorship, because it works so much better that way.
The argument for the technological side of it is weak even for the time in question,
The best thing about this whole book is the discussion about the phoenix and the comparisons made between the legendary bird and humanity: in the same way that the bird dies in flames only to be reborn again from the ashes, humanity constantly repeats mistakes made throughout history and never seems to learn from them.
Secondly, to give credit where it's due, the writing is suitably creepy for a dystopian society and I understand why people who do actually share Bradbury's concerns would be caught up in the novel's atmosphere.
But, overall, this wasn't a great dystopian work for me, I didn't agree with the point it was trying to sell me and I don't think it made a very successful case for it.
Furthermore, I had some problems with the pacing, The book is split into three parts and the first two are much slower and uneventful than the last one which seems to explode with a fast sequence of events in a short amount of time and pages.
Disappointing.
An absolute antiutopian classic of theth century, I did a speech about that book in class inI guess to convince the other pupils how important this books is.
The temperature at which books burn, No slowdown, only highspeed on the streets, reality shows at home with you being part of it, a world dominated by a government given truth.
What happens if someone dares to look behind the scenes Dares to read a uncensored book Who is this group trying to find the truth beyond the fact falsifying system of the government This is a must read.
Ray Bradbury had a look into our modern times when he wrote this groundbraking classic, One of the best books of theth century! “Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays”
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit
Who is one of my favorite authors Neil Gaiman.
When I opened Fahrenheit, who should write the introduction but none other than Neil Gaiman, So how can I not like this book
Just to give some historical context, Fahrenheitis a fantasy book written in.
This was before cell phones, color television, and of course the internet, The story is premised on what if firemen started fires instead of putting them out, What if firemen burned books
Fahrenheitis about censorship, but it is much more than that.
Bradbury was writing about the future which is now our present, It is almost eerie to see how closely he predicted the future, The book even mentions!
There are also a lot of great quotes in Fahrenheit, and this book is especially chilling in the modern era of book banning.
“And if you look”she nodded at the sky“theres a man in the moon.
” He hadnt looked for a long time,
When was the last time that you looked at the moon
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Fahrenheit, Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheitis a dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, published in.
Fahrenheitis set in an unspecified city at an unspecified time in the future after the year,
Guy Montag is a "fireman" employed to burn houses containing outlawed books, He is married but has no children,
One fall night while returning from work, he meets his new neighbor, a teenage girl named Clarisse McClellan, whose freethinking ideals and liberating spirit cause him to question his life and his own perceived happiness.
Montag returns home to find that his wife Mildred has overdosed
on sleeping pills, and he calls for medical attention.
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز سوم ماه فوریه سالمیلادی
عنوان: فارنهایتنویسنده: ری برادبری مترجم: علاءالدین بهشتی تهران آشتیانیدرص موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان ایالات متحده آمریکا سدهم
این کتاب را جنابان آقایان علی شیعه علی و معین محب علیان و علی عامری مهابادی و سرکار خانم سارا زرگر نیز ترجمه کرده اند
انگار یکی بوده که میدانسته روزگاری باید هر کس یکی از کتابهای خوشگوار را از بر کند و تا هستیم و هست نگذارد و نگذاریم واژه های داستان و شعر و نثر بمیرند باشند و خوش ببویند و هماره از واژه های دلدار بگویند دارم میاندیشم اگر چنین روزی آمد و این دل سرگشته هنوز زنده بود کدام کتاب را برخواهد گزید شاید: غزلیات و دیوان حضرت حافظ را,
داستان در جهانی رخ میدهد که خواندن یا داشتن کتاب جنایتی بزرگ به شمار میآید این مشخصات جامعه ای است که تحت ستم یک نظام سیاسی است که شهروندانش با قرصهای شادی بخش و داروهای مسکن و خوابآور و مخدر که نسیانآور هستند دلخوشند صفحه های بزرگ ویدئویی بر دیوارهای منازل هرگونه دغدغه ای را برطرف میکنند آزاداندیشی در آن جهان قدغن است زیرا تعادل جامعه را بر هم میزند و اشخاص را ضد اجتماع بار میآورد کتاب و هرچه خواندنی است عامل اصلی انحراف شناخته میشوند مسئولیت بازیابی و سوزاندن کتابهای باقیمانده در آن نظام بر دوش ماموران آتشنشانی بگذاشته شده است
از آنجاییکه خانههای شهر تخیلی ضدآتش هستند کتابهای یافته شده را در همان محل پنهان شدن کتاب به آتش میکشند برای کشف محل اختفای کتاب از یک سگ مکانیکی سود میبرند و پس از یافتن کتاب صاحب آن را که دشمن امنیت ملی نامیده میشود به قتل میرسانند اونیفرم و کلاه مأموران آتشنشانی به نشان سمندر یا آتشپرست مزین است این خزنده از دوران باستان نماد زندگی در آتش بوده است مونتاگ آتشنشانی است که از کار خود لذت میبرد کار او سوزاندن کتابهای ممنوعه است و از قضای روزگار همه ی کتابها ممنوعه هستند
اما او یکبار با کلهریس مککلهلن دیدار میکند که به او میفهماند که زندگیاش آنطور که فکر میکرده شاد نیست و این برای مونتاگ سرآغاز شیدایی است همان شب مونتاگ همسرش را در حالی مییابد که همگی قرص خوابها را نوش جان کرده و رو به مرگ است او دیگر به همه چیز زندگی خود شک میکند به زودی برای نخستین بار کسی را میبیند که حاضر نشده همراه پلیسی که او را یافته برود این زن مسن ترجیح میدهد با کتابهای خود بسوزد این رویداد مونتاگ را وامیدارد که کتابی بردارد و بخواند و
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