Why Is Fahrenheit 451 Be Banned
Look around. I’m sure if you look around your house, you will find a book or two. Now imagine living in a society where books were not allowed. How would you learn things? How would information be passed down? Books provide so much to life, and think what life would be like if there was nothing to read. Regardless of whether you're a reader or not, you still use books. They provide the information that is the basis of life; the everyday things. People that live in the communities of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and The Giver by Lois Lowry don’t have books. How do they live? It seems very hard to a person in today’s society to understand the lives of the people without books. In Fahrenheit 451 books are completely banned. The protagonist Guy Montag’s job is to burn books so that others can’t read them. Jonas, the protagonist of The Giver, is the only person in his community
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Nobody else in his community is allowed to read books. In these classic dystopian novels, we wonder if the author uses the common theme of banning books to show a change in a community. In Fahrenheit 451 and The Giver, the authors, Ray Bradbury and Lois Lowry, write to show the protagonists want change. They want something to be different. And each time the change is rebellion. Knowledge is the foundation of change, and this causes people to rebel against the rules when they are unfair. In life, many people want to make a change, so they stand up for what they believe. In some cases, that involves rebelling. In both The Giver and Fahrenheit 451 the protagonists use rebellion to try to make a change. Throughout Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury notes to the reader how powerful the government is. In this quote, “Any man’s insane who thinks he can fool the government and us,” it shows that a possible reason
Nobody else in his community is allowed to read books. In these classic dystopian novels, we wonder if the author uses the common theme of banning books to show a change in a community. In Fahrenheit 451 and The Giver, the authors, Ray Bradbury and Lois Lowry, write to show the protagonists want change. They want something to be different. And each time the change is rebellion. Knowledge is the foundation of change, and this causes people to rebel against the rules when they are unfair. In life, many people want to make a change, so they stand up for what they believe. In some cases, that involves rebelling. In both The Giver and Fahrenheit 451 the protagonists use rebellion to try to make a change. Throughout Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury notes to the reader how powerful the government is. In this quote, “Any man’s insane who thinks he can fool the government and us,” it shows that a possible reason