Is our world too close to a world that is considered so bad by other people who ban it? This is a world where reading a book, owning a book, or questioning laws is forbidden. A world where the media takes over your life. This is the world in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, where we see a firefighter whose job is to start fires, fires where they burn books. Books that were banned because they would make people think differently, offend others, and prevent them from questioning the world they find themselves in. Our world today is like the world in this book, seeing that we both live in a society that is largely media driven, wanting everything done right away, without patience, demanding it now, at the moment even. In Fahrenheit 451 books are illegal, and people are encouraged to spend all their time watching TV and only caring about what's happening. on their favorite TV shows. They don't think about what's happening in the real world. Our society is a lot like this because we are obsessed with the latest trend and the newest technology. want to know everything about this celebrity and the drama that goes on in the shows they watch on TV. It's amazing how similar these worlds are playing in their living rooms and we're attached to our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts. The Fahrenheit 451 people are also said to be obsessed with these social media accounts. It has been written about it as in this Time Magazine article: "But a 2009 study found that when extraneous information was presented, participants who (based on their responses to a study questionnaire) performed a lot of media multitaskers performed worse on a test than those who don't do much multimedia...... middle of paper ...... 83) In this quote from a writer who actually discovered the importance of books and the need for them, "For another, the battery of a book will never die. (Tiffany Lewis) All of this is important because it shows us the truth behind our world. It shows the good things that we have and the things that are not so great in our world This means that we must work to improve our society without letting others determine how we act The world of Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury shows us that we. We are like this world in the sense that we want everything to go well at this moment that we are obsessed with. technology and let it take over our time. But we think books are important and not something that should be illegal and harmful to us. Seeing this, we wonder if we are transforming into the world found in Fahrenheit 451 or if we are improving by moving away from that world..