Close Reading Exercise

Please write down your answers for these, providing specific examples from the novel in your response.

1) Why do the firemen burn books in the novel? What effect does this have on society? Why is it seen as a good thing? p.56

2) What forms of our technology do the wall families resemble? What is the effect on the people of the Farenheit world, interacting with the wall families all day? Do we have any similar effects in our society, due to the types of technological, social media, and mass media interactions we experience in our daily lives? How have TV, email, and social media changed the way we interact with one another?

3) What role does conformity play in the society of the novel?

4) What parallels can you see between this world and the world of Nosedive? What about Stepford?

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