Ray Bradbury Interviews

Ray Bradbury's interviews showed a lot about his writings. They show the feelings coming from his heart and how they were poored into his books.
Bradbury was trying to show in his book Fahrenheit 451 that television was taking away peoples imagination and their ability to think for themselves. Television or "walls" took away peoples desire to read to look beyond the surface of things in life, it took away peoples ability to be content with the smallest things in the world. "Clarisse was the essence of life and love," Bradbury said, and this is shown completely by the way that Montag feels about Clarisse. Most things that Montag brings up that is meaningful he relates back to Clarisse showing how that she is tied to all these things. In Fahrenheit 451 the absence of books makes the people seem as if they have nothing to live for and once Montag finds the meaning of these books he starts to have a joy and reason for life.
Bradbury was very effective in this book and makes the reader really look at things in life today that might be a hinderence to our values in life. Today we have more than television, we have phones, computers, internet, ipods, ect. and with all these different technologies in our lives it seems like some of us dont have time for anything else or time to "stop and smell the roses". Bradbury brings this point across so well in his books and his interview was so great to see how he spoke about these feelings and not just read them from a page.