Emerson's Claim On Books

In the world of Fahrenheit 451, books are burned because they are “confusing”, schools teach students with meaningless facts, and people are forced to drive at high speeds so they can’t see what’s around them. We can see that people stopped pondering their surroundings in the world of the book. In schools, students are crammed with useless facts, and are not taught about the reasons behind it. By extracting the “meaning”, it limited types of expressions. Books were one of them. Knowledge changed to simply “knowing” facts, without the reasons. By manipulating the understanding of knowledge and inquiry, books were considered confusing and “not good”. In the end, it was the public that stopped reading books, as Beatty said.

Today, no one seems to give much value of literary works or reading. Not because it doesn’t give anything beneficiary, but because not everyone had the urged to at least finish a book. We now live in a world where social medias almost dominates our daily activities. It’s unlikely to have a place for us to consume a non-fiction or fiction book. As absurd as it sounds but that’s how people often think. We now live in an egalitarian society, where everyone is given the freedom and right of its own.

This book displays how our futuristic world would be without all the books in the world being accessible to us. “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture; just get people to stop reading them.” The destruction of books shows how the authoritative people are trying to manipulate their nation’s thoughts and the past. ‘We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says. But everyone made equal… a book is a loaded gun in the house next door.” This quote from Beatty indicates that they do not want their people to know about history and they want everyone to see the same things, hear the same things, and do the same things. These characters all believed in living the same lives oblivious to the world before them.

Books have been the main source of obtaining information and discovering a world of knowledge, imagination, and exploration throughout all periods of time.

“It’s not books you need; it’s some of the things that once were in books” Page 82 of Fahrenheit 451. I agree with this statement completely because many of the topics in many books are beneficial to know. However, I believe that certain concepts portrayed in books are one sided and vague and not completely suited to teach young or maturing minds the concepts they attempt to portray. I personally believe that books should be censored, at will, by parents who believe they have a more appropriate way to teach their own son or daughter about the topics they are censoring from them. I must add that banning all books as Fahrenheit 451 suggests is not the answer. Many literary works have the same concepts but teach these concepts from different viewpoints

In the year 1953, Ray Bradbury published a book titled Fahrenheit 451. This book explores a dystopian world where houses are completely fireproof, and instead of putting out fires, firemen start them. They do this for one reason, which is to destroy all books. The author has many things he wanted to convey, one of which is that books are people. The theme of Fahrenheit 451 is that books encompass the author’s entire life and their opinions. Along with this, Bradbury was trying to show that by reading a book, the reader also shares these experiences.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character." This quote is a belief that your beliefs show innermost self. Emerson believes that your thoughts and ideas of the world reflect your true self. I agree that your mental outlook of the world is a representation of your real character. Regardless of whether or not you expressed those thoughts and ideas out loud, they still show your true colors. Opinions are just another way of showing the world who you really are. Your attitude on the certain topics and people, marks your stance on the world and show your true beliefs.

Books open your perspective about life, they give you different perspectives and points of view. They carry knowledge and it

Emerson has a great style of writing that opens the eyes on readers to new perspectives. Emerson wanted the future societies to change their ways and he

Books allow us to learn more. For example, in the article, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains By Nicholas Carr, he says, “What really makes us intelligent isn’t our ability to find lots of information quickly. It’s our ability to think deeply about that information.” Google allows us to have the information right in front us, and we just write or read about what it says. It’s not only Google, it’s anything with a screen. A book makes you

This quote really shows the power of books in Montag’s society and how they control the power of books. It also shows society's attitude towards books because of how Montag laughs at being questioned about reading the books. This quote honestly depicts how books have been manipulated to have a negative

The quote makes it seem as though Ralph is losing hope, and is scared of losing control. His fear is evident in the tone the quote is written in, with the pauses and upsetting outcomes he speaks of, such as them losing their humanity and never being rescued from the island. This is the most scared Ralph has been be in the book so far. The idea of someone as brave and optimistic as him losing faith makes the fear even more evident, as it isn’t something one would expect from Ralph. Though it is just one statement, so much fear is evident in it, and really affects the atmosphere of the

In life, there are many different types of books from each genre, and each person has a choice on which one they like or don’t like, which one is the most helpful, or the least helpful. But sometimes, no matter how much you like books, or how helpful they are, some societies believes, or have been lead to believe by propaganda that books shouldn’t exist, all books are bad and should just be burned. They’re society believes that books just bring unnecessary emotions in life that books just brings people down, or that what people have been lead to believe. But in that society there are people who are trying to fight back by saying how books are actually useful in life, and brings excitement, or useful information into people’s life. But sometimes,

Before we divulge into the topic of this essay, let me begin by stating that neither the author of the main source, Steven Johnson, nor I intend to devalue books or look down upon them. In his book, Everything Bad Is Good For You, he starts off talking about the importance of books. He says, “We should all encourage our kids to read more, to develop a comfort with and an appetite for reading” (Johnson 21). Reading provides many different benefits, some including “concentration, the ability to make sense of words, to follow narrative threads, to sculpt imagined worlds out of mere sentences on pages” (Johnson 23). As an avid reader myself, I have always had an interest in books.

Books have been the exist to imagination, emotion, and knowledge, but mostly knowledge is shown in books. Knowledge has been part of ideas that books show and tell to make the imagination, the emotion, and understanding the book happen because knowledge is power. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury warns that without knowledge people will be easily controlled because they wouldn’t know the two sides of an idea. Therefore without books it’s a plain society.