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Mindless Entertainment In Fahrenheit 451

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Fahrenheit 451: Essay
Mindless entertainment can serve as a gateway to fun, but also keep us from what really matters. Through the pages (51-58) Beatty explains to Montag how technology took over, and pure common sense in the world for academics has faded away. That useless information has been filled in the heads of people. “There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation...”. However some form of entertainment can serve as a stress reliever or just pass time. Some of it can fill our heads with educationally useless information. Also it may shorten our attention span just because nothing is happening in real life at the moment that is interesting. Playing games can open our minds to what …show more content…

Especially now that young kids are being exposed to technology at an early age they practically know how to enter into different apps or play games on it. By the time they enter school and are exposed to tablets or computers they will be ahead to those that hardly know what a computer is back in the day. Kids will be able to process the information they are given easier from the technology they are accustomed to. By giving people a task it can be hard to do but with technology we can experience different ways to finish the task and games can help us process it to. Getting young kids exposed to technology can help strengthen their minds. Soon they can also possibly troubleshoot problems on their device they can solve any technical difficulty by themselves. In the story Mildreds whole life in controlled by technology, “She was an expert of lip reading from ten years of apprenticeship at Seashell ear-thimbles”. (16) She is surround by it 24/7, and by having those shells in her ear for so long she has adjusted to lip reading if she has to. Mildred has developed, or strengthen a skill. In a way to use here technology without hurting her real life as

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