I have been jumping around on my claim a lot, basically because mine was not so great. Here is my tree map:
Intro:
In the world of Fahrenheit 451, most people seem to be happy with their life. They spend their days around the television walls, watching exciting shows by themselves or with friends. They laugh, and they smile, and are all around enjoying their life. There are no problems to deal with, no stress, and they can do whatever, whenever. They also have everything one could need to be happy, they have friends and family that they spend time with, a house, food, and plenty of entertainment. It would seem from all this that this is a perfect society where everyone is happy, having a good time.
However, there are some problems that can be seen. Small slip ups, or at least the characters make it seem. People on drugs, overdosing, apparently is a thing that a medical team will fix "nine or ten a night," and they don't even send a proper doctor. (Bradbury 15). Parents hate their children, and their children hate them too. There are suicides. If people seem to be happy from so many obvious traits, why are there suicides, and why is this seen as such a normal thing?
One way to look at this would be to consider that people are actually unhappy, and are trying to cover it up by passing these bad things off as normal. By doing this, they are also trying to make themselves feel better about it too, and for many of them it works. They submit themselves to their wall for distraction from being unhappy. They get sucked into it willingly to escape. Looking at it this way could let us see the characters differently, not as happy people with a few crazy ones, but many unhappy people trying to hide it and escape from it.
Intro:
In the world of Fahrenheit 451, most people seem to be happy with their life. They spend their days around the television walls, watching exciting shows by themselves or with friends. They laugh, and they smile, and are all around enjoying their life. There are no problems to deal with, no stress, and they can do whatever, whenever. They also have everything one could need to be happy, they have friends and family that they spend time with, a house, food, and plenty of entertainment. It would seem from all this that this is a perfect society where everyone is happy, having a good time.
However, there are some problems that can be seen. Small slip ups, or at least the characters make it seem. People on drugs, overdosing, apparently is a thing that a medical team will fix "nine or ten a night," and they don't even send a proper doctor. (Bradbury 15). Parents hate their children, and their children hate them too. There are suicides. If people seem to be happy from so many obvious traits, why are there suicides, and why is this seen as such a normal thing?
One way to look at this would be to consider that people are actually unhappy, and are trying to cover it up by passing these bad things off as normal. By doing this, they are also trying to make themselves feel better about it too, and for many of them it works. They submit themselves to their wall for distraction from being unhappy. They get sucked into it willingly to escape. Looking at it this way could let us see the characters differently, not as happy people with a few crazy ones, but many unhappy people trying to hide it and escape from it.
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