Prompt 1
In Fahrenheit 451
being a pedestrian is considered a crime. In this society technology took over.
Everybody is always in their car or in their house. Everybody is antisocial.
There’s no need to walk anywhere when you have all the technology they have
now. In the book “The Pedestrian” the
main character gets arrested just because he was walking outside. They cops
thought he was going to get in trouble since no one else was walking around and
no one else ever did. I think the main reason the higher authorities say it’s a
crime to go walking around outside because it makes you think. Knowledge is
power. Normally when people go outside they observe things and think about
stuff. In Fahrenheit 451 everybody
has the same knowledge and no one is allowed to read or walk outside. If
someone becomes smarter than the higher authorities they could over run the
government. Even worse they could discover the secret of the books and the firemen.
if they discover the secrets of the pasts than they could go and tell the rest
of the people about it. Then their whole society would be ruined.
Prompt 4
Beatty hasn’t been punished because none of the other guys
are smart enough to realize that he reads the books. The mechanical hound doesn’t
catch him because Beatty is the one who programs him. So the mechanical hound
will never find him. Also he is the captain of the fire department so if there
is no Beatty than there is no one else to tell the other firefighters what to
do. I also think he just pretends to hate books so no one knows that he
actually loves them and reads them.
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