In his novel, "Fahrenheit 451", Ray Bradbury describes the havoc which occurs when the government starts censoring books by burning them all and introducing brainwashing television programs and other advanced objects, such as their cars, weapons, and mechanical hounds, in order to control the populace. Unfortunately, today’s society has not heeded the warning. If all books were destroyed, it would erase all written history and knowledge, the government would want to do that to be able to control the people more easily. They would have full control over what goes into the people’s minds. Filling them with irreverent facts and dramas through ear pieces and T.V. In Fahrenheit 451 most of society is ignorant of what is really going on because they are preoccupied with all the new technology surrounding them and could care less about the books turning to ash. This new generation is taught that books are full of lies and rubbish. Cars are made to go at expeditious speeds. Everyone is always on the run and never takes the time to look around and talk to one another, making their minds dull. This society starts to lose its humanity by forgetting what family and love really is. Ray Bradbury tells a story of a fireman named Guy Montag, who is as ignorant as everyone else. “It was a pleasure to burn With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. “(Bradbury3) Guy thinks he is doing good for the people by burning books. This is all he has known, and besides he enjoys seeing them burn. When he meets Clarisse McClellan. She asks questions and plants seeds in his thoughts. Thoughts about the Government, his relationship with his wife, his work, and the world. No one looks around or takes the t