Persuasive Essay: Why People Don T Burn Books

Let’s begin with censorship. Many books are challenged and banned in the United States. Fortunately, censorship has not gotten to the point of banning all books, as in Fahrenheit 451. In Fahrenheit 451, the burning of books started because they offended too many people-- “‘Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don’t

Lance Morrow sees burning 400,000 books as a huge loss and compares it to the Holocaust. He talks about this Loss and how it affects Russians and Americans. Russians love their literature. Russians have gained strength by listening to a group of poets during the siege of Leningrad. However, Americans don’t care as much as the Russians. Books have been replaced by computers; if burned there are plenty of more copies. Books are very valuable to some people no matter how stupid it is, however, if you notice they are just like humans. The binding decay then falls apart in your hands, but if there is a death of words everything comes to an

(MIP) This meme shows one of the most well-known laws of the society in Fahrenheit 451, which also plays a key role in the novel. (SIP-A) The society within the novel bans and burns books, helping to create the country of mindless citizens they now have. (STEWE-1) Beatty, a fire captain who burns books for a living, explains to Montag the government’s logic behind why books are burned. He reveals that as people lives sped up books lost content as they got shorter and shorter (52). In addition to this he says “‘Someone’s written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag’” (57). All controversial books were burned, and the rest chose safe, bland topics. With books

Book burning is defined as “the ritual destruction by fire of books or other written materials. Usually carried out in a public context, the burning of books represents an element of censorship and usually proceeds from a cultural, religious, or political opposition to the materials in

Ban books or burn them? Ray Bradbury wrote his famous novel Fahrenheit 451 in 1953 fantasizing about a world in which books were banned, and when a book was found it was burnt and destroyed. Little did he know that his thought of books being banned could actually happen and that it would be one of his own. Today Fahrenheit 451 is being banned and challenged in schools all across America. How ironic that a book about books being banned is now being banned around the country. A prize winning book by a prize winning author is now being questioned as to whether it is a good book to teach in an English class. Though Fahrenheit 451 may contain controversial elements such as language, discussion of

They also don’t burn books because it’s not against the law to read. In our society in school we have to read, we want to read. People that read will be the people that our society admires. In Ray Bradbury’s dystopia people that read are sent to jail and punished for wanting to learn and also being inspired by a writer's work of

When I read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, I felt very depressed and angry over the idea of burning books. In Fahrenheit 451 society it is against the law to read or own books. If you do, you could go to jail or be killed. And burning down houses, if there are books in them, is also acceptable. But in real life burning houses and books is not good. Fahrenheit 451 society and our world are very different because they have different laws and rules. Another example of how Fahrenheit 451 and our society are different is that in the book it was not against the law to run over someone, but in our society it is against the law.

“There are worse crimes than book burning. One of them is not reading them.” The author of the novel in question, Ray Bradbury, said this statement regarding censorship and book burning, a main topic in his most famous novel Fahrenheit 451. The novel is set in a futuristic dystopia in which books and other activities that don’t offer instant gratification (such as being a pedestrian) are banned, and in the case of books, burned. The protagonist of the story, Guy Montag, goes about a journey of self-discovery and a realization of the corrupted world around him. The book offers a deep insight into the potential dangers of our society that is obsessed with instantaneous satisfaction. Fahrenheit 451 has no logical reason to be banned from the

Books have impacted and used our most needed resource in the world which is trees. Books have caused deforestation which has taken away beautiful scenery views, oxygen, and protection for some homes. Obsolete books would help the world from this cause and save a lot of people and animals. Trees need

It is ever present, always burning, maybe killing, maybe cleaning, maybe restoring in a society that has long forgotten what books were and are, and which, in fear for the loss of its current status, pronounced books as prohibited. In fact, without books, people won’t need to rethink things or philosophize about life, and in the event of transgression, fire is the antibiotic which can be used by firemen to kill the virus. Additionally, Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 not long after World War II, in which the Nazis resorted to burning books during Adolf Hitler regime. In fact, book burning has a long and dark history that represents an element of censorship (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, n. pag.). Many readers may not recognize the relationship of this novel to the Holocaust, but it is a strong and rigid one because it focuses on the fact that fire is not just a symbol of a fiction novel, but it is a concrete reality that has affected many human beings in the past. For instance, in a symbolic act of ominous significance, on May 10, 1933, university students burned upwards of 25,000 volumes of “un-German” books, presaging an era of state censorship and control of culture (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, n. pag.). With this last words, regardless of the position that readers may assume, the significance of Ray Bradbury’s novel and fire, along with all the symbols related to it,

For instance “colored people dont like Little Black Sambo. Burn it” (Bradbury pg.97). “White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it” (Bradbury pg.97). For as in our society we do not go to the extremes of setting fire on books but, we do indeed cut off knowledge, literature, and education by censoring material.

How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?" (Bradbury 1-25). The entire society believed that books were bad for you since they brought other emotions on you besides happiness. Hence why they burn books in this story.

Some citizens are so passionate about their novels they would burn with their books as the firemen set the books on fire. Firemen in this crooked society will do anything to disallow people from books, even if it means burning them with the books, Captain Beatty tells Montag “...these fanatics always try suicide; the pattern’s familiar.” (Bradbury 39) Citizens who protect their books and die with their books as they burn, proves how important books are to people who have discovered there “powers” and how great they are for relaxing and such. The world is so ignorant about how much you can benefit from books, but throughout everyone’s life all they learn about is how books should be hated by all. People who do not take the time to explore book’s greatness believe (like the rest) that books are evil and should be burnt, so they think everyone who reads them is better than those who do not read, Montag is to be believed to be one of these “book loving freaks” when Beatty says “You think you can walk on water with your books. Well, the world can get by just fine without them.” (118) People in general no matter what society, dystopic or not, believe anything the government throws in their face. By burning books, the government is making citizens believe reading is terrible, expanding your mind with literature is disgustingly bad, and create people who read

In the words of Fahrenheit 451 author, Ray Bradbury, “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” The purpose of the novel Fahrenheit 451 is to make the reader aware of how technology, specifically television, kills society’s desire to read literature and effects individuals' ability to think critically. This purpose is established and made clear by the author’s illustration of a dystopian future in which society relies so heavily on technology that books are outlawed, and as long as everyone is having fun and being entertained, thinking isn't necessary

As I read this passage it began to develop into one key idea that particularly spoke to me: groups were burning books to make a point. It seems that all the people that burned books, even in the far past, were of one race, religion, etcetera. Leaders typically want their group of followers to act in a specific which led to them wanting to find a way to instill certain morals into their heads. So they burn the books that had morals they didn’t want in their society. It was such a shocking event it almost forced people to support it. They simply wanted to erase all ideas in books that are controversial to their own. It shocked me at how Pastor Jones wanted to burn these books because he is a role model for the christian religion and he was tarnishing it by wanting to do this. Overall this passage provided me with the understanding that all groups of people have their own opinions, and sometimes they think the easiest option to get rid of the ideas they hate is to eradicate them.