In the beginning of the book, it is clearly shown that technologies has taken away people’s …show more content…
By distracting the people from reality, many of their society’s flaws are being well hidden. In the second chapter of the book, The Sieve and The Sand, Mildred’s friends, Mrs. Bowles and Mrs. Phelps came to watch a television show in Mildred’s house. Montag then started a conversation between those two women and asked questions regarding their lives. “Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out, go home and think of the dozen abortions you’ve had, go home and think of that and your damn Caesarean sections, too, your children who hate your guts!” (Pg. 98) This quote shows the modern society that technology can distract people from knowing which was important and which was not. If Mrs. Bowles and Mrs. Phelps weren’t being so overdependent on the technologies around them, making them ignore their surroundings, then she would have been worried about her husbands and children. In the first chapter of the book, Montag asks Mildred about Clarisse, their neighbour. Ignoring the fact that somebody was missing, Mildred answered his question with a simple answer. “I meant to tell you. Forgot. Forgot.” “Tell me now. What is it?” “I think she’s gone.” (Pg. 44) This quote tells the readers that technology makes people forget about what was happening in