The United States was going through a dark and gloomy time after World War I and World War II. American culture has changed dramatically and has become less intellectual and more technological. Around this time, Americans realized that they too could be attacked by enemy nation states and they began to live in fear. The United States was overwhelmed by television screens due to the fear that gripped it during wartime. In Ray Bradbury's intriguing novel Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury creates this society to demonstrate the importance of the individual and the intellectual value of literature. The novel depicts a scene where government plays a major role in society, similar to that of 1950s America. Ray Bradbury constructs a warning about what he believes will happen to America in the 1950s and beyond . Ray Bradbury was a very interesting author in 1950s America. Bradbury was fascinated by literature. At a young age, his family moved across the country to Los Angeles, where he forced his family to stop at numerous libraries along the way so he could acquire new books. Ray Bradbury was a true advocate of literary expansion and despised censorship of authors. Bradbury really enjoyed researching new ideas that he would never have seen without his books. One of the many reasons he wrote this book was to expand the boundaries of censorship. Oddly enough, this book was heavily censored to not allow others to see all of its opinions. Bradbury was a self-taught man and therefore respected literature and education. The actual writing of “Fahrenheit 451” took place in the basement of the UCLA library. Bradbury wrote the book on a typewriter that cost a penny for every thirty minutes of work. He found refuge in the middle of paper......arAmerican Dystopias. " Journal of American Studies 28.2 (1994): 225-40. Web. April 28, 2014. Ruppert, Peter. " The Post-Utopian Imagination: American Culture in the 1950s by M. Keith Booker. "Utopian Studies 13.2 (2002): 109-11. Web. April 28, 2014. Bradbury, Ray. Farenheit 451. New York: Ballantine, 1953. Print.Gale. "Historical Context: Fahrenheit 451." Exploring the Novels (2008) : n. pag. Student ResourceCenter Web, May 19, 2014. “The Big Read”: 1-97. Infobase Publication. May 19, 2014. “Presidential Reactions to Joseph McCarthy.” (1950): b. May 19 2014. .