Ray Bradbury

When Bradbury first wrote Fahrenheit 451 it only took him 18 days in a library basement with a typewriter to flush out the dystopian future where the majority of society is ignorant to the knowledge within books.
I think that Bradbury's major motivators were the failing education system and when Hitler and the Nazis were burning books in Berlin. Bradbury wrote through his characters. Bradbury's characters wrote themselves, as he put it. Bradbury probably felt that he needed to write a novel where the main character rebels against society and its ignorant ways. Clarisse was the spirit that people needed to have; curious, questioning and positive.
I definitely think that if our society keeps heading the same way it's going, that we could very well end up like the the society in Fahrenheit 451; ignorant and uncaring. I believe that Bradbury wrote this novel as a warning to our society; if we keep heading in the same direction, we will burn to the ground.