Imagine a world so structured and censored that firefighters exist not to fight fire but instead to burn books. In Fahrenheit 451 this is the reality of the citizens living in this time. In the book not many people realize that every story has a writer, but they think they are just meaningless words that mean absolutely nothing. Throughout the story books are considered dangerous, so they burn every book they can get their hands on. Everyone in life is influenced by the media just like in Fahrenheit 451. The media tells them to move forward without questioning them, like books. Throughout the book you learn that in the future books will be considered dangerous and senseless. The firefighters "protect" society from those senseless pages by burning all the books. While talking to Montage, Captain Beatty states, "...The books say nothing, nothing that you can teach or believe."(59). Captain Beatty was explaining to Montage that every firefighter feels the need to read a book from time to time. He admits that he too has read a couple of them in his life but they have nothing to teach us and that picking up a book is simple curiosity rather than the desire to learn something. The main question in this book is why firefighters start fires instead of putting them out. People have fireproof homes so that things around them don't catch fire, and the only thing firefighters have to worry about is book extermination. The firefighters are not there to fight the fire but they are there to fight the book. In this society you are taught not to question anything and to accept what you are told and this will lead to a better and happier life. The only person who questions the way the fire station works is Clarisse and in the book they paint her as a depressed young woman... middle of paper... than to think differently of them. Another difference is that books equal knowledge. It is said that the more you read the more knowledge you gain. In Fahrenheit 451, books are considered dangerous and contain nothing but senseless words. In the future I think our society could become like theirs because the media affects us the same way it affects them. The media influences what we do, such as our appearance, our attitude and other aspects of our lives. Although this society is far-fetched, there may still be a chance that we could become like them. The mass media control the public like puppets. It affects everything a person does in their life. Just like in Fahrenheit 451 we live in a society of fantasizers. We believe what the media tells us and we don't question it but simply go along with it. The media is everywhere, whether we are aware of it or not.