Essay

Thematic Connection
Taking over many lives, blaming others, and taking away freedom from the civilians is a thematic connection to Fahrenheit 451 from these three brilliant essays. The Plug in Drug relates to F451 because the civilians in the book live and die by the television and Marie Winn’s essay relates that most families watch television in excess. Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder and Didn’t Call the Police relates well to F451 because the fact of fear that trouble might happen to the innocent civilian that calls in the murder. Depriving civilians of their freedom of speech can cause problems to erupt, but when a man kills many innocent bystanders because he said the movie Natural Born killer made him do it, which the essay A Movie Made Me Do It   states. In the essays The Plug in Drug, Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder and Didn’t Call the Police, and A Movie Made Me Do It   makes the idea of taking away freedom a reality to civilians which are allowing the mindset of others to take control just like the book F451.
Watching television lets many families control their life because the programs on it keep the interested as stated in The Plug in Drug and in Fahrenheit 451. “Television will take over your way of living and change your children’s habits, but this change can be a wonderful improvement (Marie Winn pg. 283 paragraph 3).” Going to school was not an option for Clarissa from F451 because it was broadcasting from television and the whole town watches the television twenty-four hours a day. Marie Winn wants families to become more inclined on learning from outside a television or America could end up deprived of freedom. With the fear of getting caught or missing the television show that is enjoyable can cause a problem within society.
Watching an innocent person get murder from the essay Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder and Didn’t Call the Police and not call the cops is what thirty-eight people did because of the fact of getting their personal life brought out in...