Not only do people want to be alone, they also seem to enjoy hurting themselves. In the book Fahrenheit 451, everyone is supposed to be the same. No one is supposed to be smarter. There are firefighters who burn all the books found. There is a firefighter named Guy Montag who questions these rules. He rebels and joins a group of people who feel the same way. The lack of communication and interaction has made people callous, uncaring and mean to each other. People are more interested in using technology than learning and interacting. They would rather watch their wall-mounted TVs and listen to their shells than learn new things and talk to their friends. Mildred likes to spend most of her time watching her wall-to-wall television. This is evident here when she says, “It’s really fun. It will be even more fun when we can afford to install the fourth wall. » (Bradbury 20) Another example is when Mildred prefers to listen to her shells rather than talk to her husband. Montag wonders if she is listening to him in this passage: "He reached up and took the little musical insect out of his ear... It felt like he was one of the creatures electronically inserted between the slots phono-color walls, speaking, but speech does not cross the crystal barrier." (Bradbury 46) Additionally, Montag becomes frustrated when Mildred is distracted by her seashells. He compares it to using the telephone. He said to Mildred, "Wasn't there an old joke about the woman who talked so much on the phone that her desperate husband would run to the nearest store and phone her to ask what was in store for her?" dinner? (Bradbury 42) In this book, people are so focused on technology that they don't have time to learn and interact. Because they are in the middle of a paper, it shows how people don't care about him. "He looked on the boulevard... a car full of children of all ages, God knows, from 12 to 16 years old, who were coming out whistling, shouting, screaming, had seen a man, a very extraordinary sight, a man walking around, a rarity, and I just said let's go get him (Bradbury 128) These examples show how the characters in the book lost their humanity. So what we learned was that the. characters in this book have lost their desire to interact with each other. They spend all their time listening to their shells and staring at their wall-to-wall televisions. Plus, without books, they haven't grown intellectually. fact, they have very few important things to say Ultimately, without interaction or knowledge, people become indifferent and hurtful Works Cited Bradbury, Ray "Fahrenheit 451." 2013.