Groups in Society- Fahrenheit 451

The novel Fahrenheit 451 reflects history pretty well. In this book they have people who do not want to have the books burned and want to keep their society intelligent and well spoken. Then their is another group who just wants to burn all the books and do what the society says to do. This book is kind of like the Holocaust. The Jews who were captured were to afraid to say anything or just to stand up to Hitler. They did not want to go out and be independent so they decided to stay with Hitler and follow his orders which got most of them killed. Another example is the war that is going on right now between Iraq and the United States.

Most of the people want the war to go on so that we can just get it over with, but then their is a small group of people who really want the war to stop so more troops do not have to die. These examples are events that happened in either the past or the present to this day, but since this book is in the future, all these events are history to the book. The various groups in this society was the ones who listened to the societies directions and then their were the ones who did not go by the societies directions. The ones who went by the societies directions like Captain Beatty, and the other firemen were just trying to keep their society the same. Then there were the ones who did not follow the directions, like Granger and his friends, they were just trying to keep the society intelligent and not act like robots who followed every order.

When Bradbury wrote, "So many people are. Afraid of firemen, I mean. But you're just a man, after all..." (Bradbury 7). When Clarisse is talking to Guy she said that a lot of people were afraid of firemen, but she was right that they were just firemen. They were not bad people just because some people did not like them. They were just men that were doing what they were told by the government. There are a lot of events that influenced this author just like the Holocaust.

Bibliography

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Print.