Prompt 16

One idea that Fahrenheit 451 related too was how people can be fake. When our class read The Great Gatsby, we talked a lot about how people act fake or pretend to be things that they aren't. Gatsby created a totally fake mask with his wealth and personality, when he really grew up poor. Also we saw Mrs. Wilson acting fake and taking on the role of a wealthy person when she really wasn't. In Fahrenheit 451 Guy realizes how fake the whole society is. They are taught not to have ideas and have personality. After talking to Clarisse and seeing her personality he sees how fake is life and people around him are. His wife Mildred just lives in her own little TV world and he realizes that their love and relationship is fake. When Mildred has her friends over Guy unplugs the TV and tries to make them have normal conversation. They are silent and there is lots of tension and awkwardness between them. This shows how things such as human relationships are even faked in the book, because they barely talk to each other.