The effect today's readers have on reading science fiction stories is, they are less likely to believe the stories could be true.
Answer: Option A
<u>Explanation:</u>
This is an era of technology and advancement. If we talk about the readers of previous era, they couldn’t really differentiate between the real ones and the unreal ones while reading stories.
But that’s not the case today, and that’s mainly because almost each one of us try to reason everything based on facts and knowledge.
We’ve sources to get to known about the genuineness of particular books and stories. So today when readers read science fiction stories they’re less likely to believe it because fiction stories in itself are not true.
The significance of this quote is Montag's realization of what his job is actually about and what it implies. He became a fireman because he was meant to. However, he is now haunted by this new feeling and does not know anymore what is right and what is wrong.
"Usher rose from a sofa on which he had been lying at full length, and greeted me with a vivacious warmth which had much in it"
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