Help!!! Fahrenheit 451 is scareing me!!! ?

Question

Okay, so im going to be a freshman this comeing school year, and we have to read this stupid book Fahrenheit 451. Im half way and IM SO CONFUSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Help me!!!!!!!! (im at the part where Guy Montag goes to that other old guys house and shows him the bible, and then he gives him this wierd ear thing and then he comes home and his wife is watching something on the walls. I dont get the wall thing)

Answer 1

The book is basically about a future dystopia.

Try and picture the "walls" that his wife is always watching as a room with every wall as a TV.

The author is trying to warn humanity against giving in to electronics and machines that do all the work for us.

He points out that many people are already 'dead' in a figurative sense because all they do is sit at home and watch the tv, it has become everything they are.. they have lost everything that once made them human

Its been about 3 years since I had to read the book for my school but if you need any further help i think i remember the general idea of the book

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Answer 2

your a freshman and you spell scaring :"scareing" .

Scary.

1) Ray Bradury's Fahrenheit 451 is not a stupid book.

2) You should try this awesome scientific method to help you out. It's called re-reading. Yes, I said it, re-read the section to find out what it means

3) turn off your computer and try again, CHEATER.

4) stop using the word thing

Answer 3

It appears you don't have a clue about the book's basic plot.  So here's a really simple summary:

In the futuristic society being portrayed, the government controls eveyone's minds, including their education and entertainment.  The wall TV is interactive so the government can control the people's actions.

Another way the government controls the people is by banning books because they don't want them learning anything but what the government wants them to know.  

The title of the book is the temperature that paper burns, and the job of firemen in the society is to burn books instead of putting out fires.

Montag accidentally reads a book and begins to question the government's total control over its citizens.  Eventually he rebels and joins the book-reading rebels who live in secret societies beyond the reach of the government.

Answer 4

I read that book for sophomore year. Basically Montag realizes that everything he knew was wrong. That books are magically and thrilling and that he shouldn't be burning them so he goes to that "other guys" house to show him, because he believes he's the only one that would understand. The ear piece is so he knows what to say, because he's afraid to go back to work without being caught. They're planning on setting up the fire house to make it look like they're keeping books.