How do they learn to read?
When no books are allowed in this society since a long time, how did Montag and the others guys learn to read?
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Probably via computer (in those days, television) screens.
sharewell maybe learning how to read in this dystopian society was legal but it was the books that were illegal.
sharewell maybe learning how to read in this dystopian society was legal but it was the books that were illegal.
What's the point of learning how to read, if there's nothing TO read? share
This is not a matter of "what's the point" but there's always someone outside the herd like that group in the forest,people who were fighting the system and were not brainwashed. if there was nothing to read,those people wouldn't have their books hidden in their houses.
shareI was referring to the general, wider, 'law-abiding' population.
Indeed! but in a population in general there's always that big proportion of people as you said it and well "law-abiding" who follow the rules and are brainwashed and those that stand for themselves and question the system and it's those people outside the herd who in this case learned to read and it's these people who the law fears,so no matter what there's always a way to escape the system and there's always people against it,so I think in a way or another they found a way to learn. but of course this is my perspective.
sharewould have been interesting to see Bradbury's take on the "education system" [if any] under this regime.
note the matter of promotion depended on not having kids
http://www.kindleflippages.com/ablog/
Wasn't it only fiction and books that were considered against the state doctrine that were banned. They still learned to read.
I guess it's like looking at clouds. You see one thing and I see another. Peace.
I think it was all books.
I think the film suggested the television replaced books as a learning medium without going into the concept in depth. But I agree, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense having literate people who can't read literature. I'm not sure whether Ray Bradbury ever addressed this in the original novel.
Probably via monitor screens.
shareI was wondering the same thing today, and was about to post the question, when I spotted this thread.
What I want to know is how the living libraries in the book managed to commit the books to their memories, without memorizing them? Instant upload? Telepathy?