Fahrenheit 451 Book Report Essay

Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, fabricates a futuristic fellowship where it is illegal to be in possession of a book or books. If our civilization permits a guild of individuals to regulate what is appropriate to read, the world Bradbury had envisioned may become true.
A book that has been challenged with censorship is Tiger Eyes written by Judy Blume. Davey Wexler, along with her mother, Gwen, and her little brother, Jason, has just attended the funeral of her father, Adam, who was shot to death in a holdup at their 7-Eleven convenience store in Atlantic City. Davey’s mother Gwen, then decides they needed to get away for a while, so they take up an offer from Adam’s older sister, Bitsy, and her husband Walter, to come stay
with them. A few days before they were going to leave, Gwen finds out that their store was further vandalized, and she decides they are going to stay for a while longer, turning out to be the rest of the school year.
Meanwhile, as Davey explores the town on her aunt’s bicycle, she goes to a canyon and after climbing down she bumps into an older boy named Wolf. Davey calls herself Tiger when they introduce each other. She also becomes a candy striper at the hospital with her new friend, Jane, and meets a cancer patient, who turns out to be Wolf’s father. The inspiration from Wolf and his father changes Davey for the better. Unfortunately, he dies later on from the cancer he was diagnosed with and that causes Wolf to leave. Another topic was Jane’s alcoholism and Davey’s desire to help her out of it. Also in three different parts Davey describes the evening her father was killed which causes her to freak out each of the three times. She carries a paper bag with her, which is then shown to be containing the shirt she was wearing when she found her father and cradled him in all the way till his death. After a therapy session with Miriam, where she finally breaks down and is able to mourn her father, she eventually buries it and a bread knife she was carrying for self defense at the canyon where she met Wolf. Eventually, Gwen decides to go back to Atlantic City to start over, so
Walter helps them buy a car for a trip home. Once they’re back home, Davey often wondered if anyone will know how much she had changed, particularly her friend, Lenaya, and her boyfriend, Hugh, then also has the realization that some changes happen deep down and only you know about them.
Tiger Eyes, however, had been challenged with accusations of containing teenage depression and mild sex attitude.. It held a place on the ALA banned books list was made, falling around the 80s out of 100. For example, in 1984 over by Indiana, the book became challenged at Daleville Elementary due to sexual content, and over at Pennsylvania, it was removed from Hanover School Districts Elementary and secondary libraries, later placed on the “restricted shelf,” for being “indecent and inappropriate.” Davey who is a teenage girl, finds out her father was just murdered and she can’t come to terms with the fact that her father is gone. She goes to school the next day and starts hyperventilating and having visions that her father is there with her. This caused people to be outraged because Davey was going through teenage depression and that she was becoming a psycho, which caused people to not want their kids to do that when they had lost someone in the family. Another example of why people would be mad at this book is the fact that after Wolf and Davey or “Tiger” part ways, Davey goes to the bathroom and starts thinking about Wolf which is a normal teen thing. However, that wasn’t it, she starts to reach down her legs in the shower and rubs slowly, which was written in the book implying that she was masturbating, while she was thinking about Wolf even though, she had a boyfriend. This caused everybody, especially parents, to be outraged because they don’t want their kid learning about masturbation at a young age.
Judy Blume’s Tiger Eyes had also been banned for religious debates and underage drinking. For example, at Wyoming, it had been challenged at Casper school libraries due to alcoholism, and in 1999, over at Louisiana, it was removed from the many Junior High library shelves for religious debates such as Jewish Holidays but Christian ideology. In Los Alamos, they celebrate Hanukkah and Christmas. Davey noticed that in every church, scientists pray more than others because they have more remorse and shame. She said she read in Time magazine that organized religion was built on guilt and fear. Davey's parents were both half Jewish. Her family went to a Unitarian Fellowship for a while, then to a temple. Now, they don't go at all. Davey says dying scares her because it's so permanent. She'd like to think there's an afterlife, but she can't really bring herself to believe it.