The Importance Of Reading Books : Books And The Cons Of Books

Imagine a world where simple tasks such as reading books or walking outside, are acts seen as taboo. Well, that is precisely the case in the book of Fahrenheit 451. In this world, books are illegal, in fact it is considered normal for people to stay inside all day and watch the four walls. Their world is made that way in order to guarantee that all of the citizens are happy and peaceful. However, happiness is a mask that people wear instead of actually experiencing. In the book, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, to be happy and fulfilled a person has to conform to what is considered normal in the society.

Ray Bradbury wrote the novel Fahrenheit 451, which is a story about a society that believed books were for burning and where thinking was discouraged. Throughout the novel there are several incidents that can be

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury tells a story about the utopian future where the government controls human identity. In that society there is no place for free thoughts. Those who read are outlawed and sometimes killed. On the first pages of the novel, Juan Jimenez wrote a striking quote:” If they give you ruled paper write the other way”, and that quote pretty much shows the author’s attitude toward public pressure, censorship and oppression. It unquestionably can be stated that without knowledge there is no freedom, books- are the only answer to the demise of the oppressor.

Rules exist to keep order. Rules exist to prevent chaos and evil from running rampant in society. Rules, however, can exist to limit the freedoms of the people that are meant to be protected instead. In these cases, do the people have the right to break these restrictions? Author Ray Bradbury, in his post-modern novel Fahrenheit 451, illustrates this idea in the form of a story of a fireman, Guy Montag, who takes a stand against the censorship and oppression of free thought present in the novel’s setting. Using dystopian elements, Bradbury brings to attention the mindless use of technology as well as the decline of meaningful thoughts. In comparison to Bradbury’s literary work, Patrick Henry’s historical speech titled “Speech to the Second

Albert Camus once said, “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” If something is not the way that it ethically should be then it is acceptable to rebel within the parameters of what is morally correct and just. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, he presents a world where the government has restricted access to printed literature so that they can have increased control over their citizens. The main character, Guy Montag, shows incredible growth in his character through his journey of enforcing and blindly accepting the government restrictions to stop the flow of information to a realization that that the sharing of knowledge leads to a stronger community.

Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, details a world filled with mindless entertainment and a lack of self-expression. Everyone is not only discouraged to think for themselves, but also fearful of unique thoughts and ideas. A quote from the book that would describe this is, “It was a pleasure to burn…with the brass nozzle in his fists…blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history…While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark and burning.” (1) Books, which would provide information and knowledge, are forbidden and burned. The owner who is caught with them is put in prison. The idea of a society run by one who dictate the rules, take away all freedom. These consequences for disobeying and being an “individual” are strong reasons the

“We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought. We have our fingers on a dike. Hold steady. Don’t let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world. We depend on you. I don’t think you realize how important you are, we are, to our happy world as it stands now.” (Bradbury 59). This quote illustrates, how the societies government is making people think that books and theories are what makes the society unhappy. This is what makes the people that start theories and read books separate from their society and hide from the government and their cruel punishments towards the book readers. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, a man named Guy Montag, goes on a journey to find out about the books that are hidden from his society. Along the way, Guy starts to notices that he is different from the others who watch the “parlor walls”. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, the author, Ray Bradbury teaches the readers the theme of censorship to show how the protagonist, Guy Montag, changes as a result of the conflict in his dystopian society.

If you couldn’t read or write, how would you tackle your daily life? Being literate is a crucial part of everyone’s life; reading and writing are essential for a person’s success. Every single day, it’s used, whether it’s for an Advanced Placement Language class or reading a billboard as you’re driving past. As a child, I grew up reading on a daily basis and I believe that I am as successful as I am on behalf of it. Countless memories have been created, thanks to the multiple books that have been read and the umpteen amount of papers that I’ve written. Throughout the numerous years of my education, my teachers and parents left a long lasting impact on my reading and writing skills.

“Great minds think alike” is a popular quote in the world today. It means that more often than not, great minds have similar ideas. But what if everyone thought the same way? Would we be so great then? The book Fahrenheit 451 explores this idea by creating themes around censorship and knowledge, as well as the discontentedness that comes along with a combination of these things. The author manages to develop and tie these three ideas together into a central theme by the end of the book. Throughout this novel Bradbury implies that a lack of happiness or contentedness is caused not by knowledge or ignorance, but by censorship.

To begin, Fahrenheit 451’s world is very similar to ours, but the catch is, books are outlawed. “[Montag] Happiness is important… And yet I kept sitting telling myself, I’m not happy” (Bradbury

Throughout Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury demonstrates a different kind of censorship. He exposes an insidious censorship that is brewed from distraction. The distraction is achieved by the banning of books, claimed to be a step toward equality. But, Bradbury shows that without intellectual freedom, equality is an empty promise which leads itself to totalitarianism and rebellion.

In Fahrenheit 451, owning books is not allowed and they are burned if they are found. Society had lost interest in reading, and stopped thinking intellectually in favor of entertainment and instant gratification. Banning books in our society may seem like a thing of the past, but there are still some books that are banned today. In “Anti-Intellectualism Is Taking Over the US,” Patricia Williams talks about the books that have been banned in the Tucson, Arizona school system within the last decade. According to Williams, the people who force bans on books have “a rather stunning sense of privilege, the confident sense of superiority that allows someone to pass sweeping judgment on a body of work without having done any study at all.” Like Fahrenheit

Have you ever thought how another society is? Fahrenheit 451 has a society worse than ours. Their society banned books and in our society we need books, to help us learn. Their society they can’t read it’s illegal to read. If in our society if books are bad, people Bann the books instead of making them illegal. In their society if they

“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.” This quote by Juan Ramon Jimenez means that sometimes rules are meant to be broken and sometimes rules are not always for the betterment of society. Rules give us structure, but they can hinder our humanity towards one another. The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is about a dystopian society where books are burned and outlawed. Guy Montag, a fireman, comes along, and he learns about a past where people were not afraid to read and break laws and learns this all cause of a girl named Clarisse McClellan, then he meets a man named Faber who teaches him how to understand books. Then

Reading has at all times and in all ages been a source of knowledge, of happiness, of pleasure and even moral courage. In today's world with so much more to know and to learn and also the need for a conscious effort to conquer the divisive forces, the importance of reading has increased. In the olden days if reading was not cultivated or encouraged, there was a substitute for it in the religious sermon and in the oral tradition. The practice of telling stories at bed time compensated to some extent for the lack of reading. In the nineteenth century Victorian households used to get together for an hour or so in the evenings and listen to books being read aloud. But today we not only read, we also want to read more and more and catch up