Dystopia in Fahrenheit 451, reading the first lines of the opening paragraph of Fahrenheit 451, we get the feeling of a dystopia right away. Firefighters were burning books, instead of putting out fires that start in houses. Who has ever heard of this? <Avoid the USINing questions, they made the newspaper. We are the invisible eyes that see the cataclysmic events that turn Guy Montag's life upside down. We watch him rise, then fall, then meet strangers like him. We watch how fugitives are found using a mechanical dog and how people enjoy watching the chase on their TVs "Off the Wall". Could this be how Bradbury thinks our society will transform? Maybe not as drastic, but maybe censorship could happen, right? Ray Bradbury is compared to Arthur C. Clarke as a "poetic science fiction writer" (WATT). This is so because Bradbury takes a more elegant route to exposing his dystopia. The people in his story are so in the present and enjoying the moment that they forget the morals and ethics they come from, as they are clouded by smoke. Take wall-sized TVs, for example. It has become the way the population interacts with others without physically interacting with them. The people on stealth television were your "family", who would keep you company and be your "friend". Yet a place where books were burned and houses were supposedly "fireproof", you have to admit that this world is out of control. People have become grounded and just want to be happy, they don't care what happens to the ideas that are in books. I think Bradbury is trying to tell us not to rely too much on technology or it will consume us. In the future, we can take books for granted because they are the essence of free speech and free ideologies. By burning the books, people forget, and have nothing to trace, leaving only what is the reality of the presensure.