Theses troubles that inflict Solomon should be used as a learning point for those who read the book. It gives the reader a sure idea that our lives should be lived for and with God, not against Him. For those who do not live their life for and with God, struggle to enjoy life's pleasures. Solomon had amassed god, horses, and women during his lifetime which lead to his downfall. This is an important lesson to learn from because Solomon did not use his life to honor God. Instead, he placed things in front of God, and Solomon's walk sunk to a new low with Christ. However, due to Solomon's experiences and downfalls, he can tell us that the downfalls are vainer in this life because they are not spent with God. We can tell through the time line of his life that the gold, horses, and women amounted in his life allowed him to stray from the actual and major part of his life.

Learning from this book, I should not let my life stray to the means and ends that Solomon had. In all that I do, should be done as if Christ were with me. The beautiful thing about having God around is that it allows me to enjoy the gifts God has given more enjoyable to a point where I do not have to worry about vanity. Of course one of the reasons why life may seems miserable is because either the sin life has allowed to get in between God and me or that my works and deeds are not done for God. My work should be done with diligence because God worked hard and is still working till this day. His hard work should be reflected with the work ethic in my own life. May work and diligence be not far from me in this life because a sluggard will not be able to reap that he has sown.

Vanity can still be in the people's lives whether it is a high or low point of their life. A person can still be happy with their life and their vanities and still not be a Christian. It is when things get bad that it is realized that they will curse those things that humiliated their pleasures. Still, I can still enjoy life with the downtimes and the uptimes in my life. All is to be done for God even though the times will be difficult.

Understandably, Bradbury could not have known what a great book he was writing at the time. The purpose of this book was to teach people to leave the television and the families' people had created on the screens and go back to reading classic literature. As he says “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them”. He also said that television is a thoughtless activity and as every one of those quarter second clips goes by on the screen we forget to think, all the fast pictures going by makes us think we're thinking. Books are not the opposite of televisions as they do not teach us how to think, but they are the catalyst for individually developing our minds in a good way. The main character Guy Montag brings up a story from his youth about how his older roguish cousin paid him to fill a sieve with sand at the beach. He continually tries and tries to fill it up, but the sand always sifts through. This is how books work with our minds, they never stick around for too long, but you have to keep trying because putting something worthwhile into your brain continuously is better than nothing at all. If no one ever put any literature, books, or truth into their minds, the world would turn into an awful place.

My version of what the word dystopian means is that the world has come out the opposite of what we wanted it to be like. I know that's kind of a crude description, but I've grown a love of dystopian style art. Movies like Idiocracy, Pleasantville, and Brazil show artist renderings of what they think the world will be like as we continue on our current course of action. Books like Fahrenheit 451, 1984, and Brave New World have much in common with the movies I mentioned earlier, but the one central idea that all anti-utopian media outlets possess is that mankind has become a wasteland of human thought.

The big difference that gives Fahrenheit 451 the edge over all the others of its genre is that it gives a logical and feasible reason to the breakdown of the mind, the choice to quit reading. Is today the same as Bradbury's depiction of the future? No, we aren't even close, colleges are still teaching liberal arts to young minds, English classes can still give reading assignments, and bookstores are still legal. Are we heading down the same path as the book? My unfortunate instinctual answer is yes, websites like Wikipedia, Sparknotes and Cliffnotes.com are shortening books so that whole works of literature can be read in under an hour. Movies like The Bourne Ultimatum, Moulin Rouge, and Sin City give us no time to stop and think about what's going on while we watch them. And I've heard too many of my friends say they only read when they have to.

To conclude, reading is a blessing of the people that writers give to us. Although our fast-paced lifestyle is fun and a part of our culture, I think that we need to begin reading more to add texture to our lives. As Professor Faber says “Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality.” And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores.” (Faber, 83) If we could add texture to our lives and still appreciate roller coasters, violent video games, and high-speed action movies, I think the world would be a better place. That would define the paradise of having your cake and eating it too.