Fahrenheit 451 Should Not Be Banned

Fahrenheit 451 was published in 1953 by Ray Bradbury in the US. His book is set in a dystopian society where books are illegal and and thinking is restricted. Instead of firemen putting out fires, they start them.. Bradbury’s famous book has been mainly challenged by middle schools and high schools. While Fahrenheit 451 maybe the most controversial novel in the 20th century, it holds the award as being one of the most notable banned books in history. No other book has been written like this so mysterious and real. The idea of how books are banned doesn’t really matter to most people. While Fahrenheit 451 might include some vulgar language and profanity, it shares ideas that can help young people.

Do you think that our society is bad or good? Should Donald Trump be president, or should Bernie Sanders be president? Fahrenheit 451’s society is terrible. Their government/laws is worse, the fireman are bad and the banning of books in their society. “Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light” (Vera Nazarian). If books are being banned then a door won’t open and let in more light. In Fahrenheit 451 they have a living room like in America and the similarities is that there are electronics and no one communicates in the living room.

Have you ever heard or read a banned book? Chances are if you have, you’re older than 18. Banned books are books that have been banned from schools because of mature themes and other beliefs that might contradict or offend people. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is one of those books. The book has mature themes and some beliefs that would offend people; it should be banned because it would not okay for some age groups as well.

Our society that we live in at this moment may be headed for destruction. In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, the characters live in a society that is truly awful, but the author shows us that our society could be headed down that path. However, in the story, the beliefs of the main character Guy Montag change drastically, from beginning the novel as an oblivious citizen to ending it by trying to change his society for the better. Guy lives in a society in which the government outlaws books because they cause people to ponder ideas and develop new ones. The stories stripped from their lives as if they had never existed, the citizens of this society blindly follow their government. Throughout the novel, the main character Guy Montag

“Books aren't people. You read and I look all around, but there isn't anybody!” That quote was taken From Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. “We'll never feel safe again, and so it's bye-bye innocence. It's been nice knowing you, but you're gone now.” A quote taken from the book Tomorrow, when the war began By John Madsen. Two books that have numerously been challenged. While these books have some common points they also differ in the lesson that they teach at the end of the book. Fahrenheit 451 should be banned because it shows a world where people are technology involved and where violence has taken over. “

Short of just 70 years ago, the United States was detached; segregated into communities of race and color. In the eyes of our modern society, this practice was cruel and inhumane, an example of just how much a culture’s perspective can change in time. Fahrenheit 451, a novel written and published by Ray Bradbury in 1953, focused on the consequences of change in a society through the eyes of Guy Montag. In the fictitious story, Guy serves as one of many firemen in the community; rather than removing the fires, they set them upon books, which had prohibited and illegalized. After a series of events that transpired in the novel, Montag would begin to recognize the intellectual censorship caused by the absence of books; beginning his crusade

Within the last couple of decades, schools have been banning books due to the reoccurring problems in modern day time, like profanity. Use of language should not limit what a student can and cannot read. Fahrenheit 451, one of the many books that have been put into consideration for being banned because of disputatious issues. The story of a protagonist who finds joy in his job as a fireman, setting fire to illegally owned books and their owners homes. However, the fireman soon starts to question the value of his job and his life. Throughout the book, characters are left to deal with censorship, restriction, and put in life threatening situations. Although the novel contains reoccurring controversial issues, Fahrenheit 451 should be included in middle and high school curriculums because it allows teachers and students to freely discuss the importance of language use included in reality.

Books have been outlawed, but some citizens refuse to follow the rules. In this novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury tells the story of Guy Montag and his fight against the government. As the story unravels Montag finds himself wanting to read books not burn them. Throughout the story Bradbury uses Mildred and Clarisse as an influence for Montag. Montag's job makes him burn books to earn money, but throughout the book Montag learns the importants of books and the wonderful information inside them.

Ray Bradbury originally wrote his novel, Fahrenheit 451, as an indictment against the censorship evident during the McCarthy era of America, and it has since become one of the few modern science fiction books that can be considered a classic. The adulation of this novel is due to its plethora of symbols, metaphors, and character development. Bradbury’s character development is singularly impressive in this book because he shows the evolution of the main character, Guy Montag, “from book-burner to living-book” (Johnson 111). His maturity is displayed by his growing understanding of the world in which he lives and by seeing the flaws in his society. Bradbury illustrates Montag’s metamorphosis with him changing from a mindless burning drone

It’s quite an unwonted feeling to read a book about a place where books are prohibited and frowned upon; knowing that at any second, the book can be ripped from your hands—burnt at precisely four hundred and fifty-one degrees Fahrenheit. This place is the future.

Imagine living in a black and white world where all your thoughts, the way you speak and our daily routine are controlled by someone else. In Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag starts to question the intentions of his own government after meeting Clarisse McLellan. Ray Bradbury explores the different forms of censorship through Montag’s wife, Mildred, the burning of books, and technology, in order to show there are consequences to censorship.

Once Montag begins reading the book that he took from burning the books at someone’s house in the past, he realizes how censored the world he is living in is. He thinks about the whole issue with Faber, a professor, about everything that is wrong, along with the fact that they are not happy because the world they are living in censored. Montag later returns back to his wife who was watching “her family” on television, when she discovered that he had a book. He talked to her all about the restriction in their world, then went to work. When he arrived, he got ready to go to the next house to burn the books, and it was his own. He thought through everything and decided he would live a happier life away from all of the censorship, so he decided to run away. In the end, the whole city ended in a war, in the search for Montag, all because of the censorship that took place, causing all of this to happen. The people living in the novel thought that they were happy, but their lack of knowledge made it hard for them to see how miserably they were living. The novel Fahrenheit 451, displays the dangers of censorship, and the fact that people should be living in a world where they are

In our world today, books are legal and loved by the people, and firemen put out fires to keep people safe. It’s different in the world of Fahrenheit 451, firemen burn down houses, and books are illegal because it supposedly makes people sad. Guy Montag is a fireman who decides to rebel. In the novel “Fahrenheit 451”, author Ray Bradbury illustrates to the reader that a society that is built on censorship can not exist without resistance of the people. This becomes clear to the reader when Montag realizes how important books are and how unfair and cruel the laws are about books and what they do to people that have books in their possession.

Eighteenth-century British novelist Laurence Sterne once wrote, “No body, but he who has felt it, can conceive what a plaguing thing it is to have a man’s mind torn asunder by two projects of equal strength, both obstinately pulling in a contrary direction at the same time.” This is especially true in Ray Bradbury’s dystopian fiction novel, Fahrenheit 451. In the novel, all books are banned and happiness is found primarily in technology and routine. Main character Guy Montag is a fireman, a prestigious job that burns houses that are found to have contraband books. As he begins to wonder about the past and the meaning behind everything around him, the government does everything they can to keep him from knowing the truth. In the end, Montag is forced to choose between his perceivably happy life, and a life of truth and suffering. The two forces of truth and insincerity pull on him throughout the novel, emphasizing the need to clear away censorship and corruption to find truth, regardless of the sacrifice.

Fahrenheit 451 is a timeless novel that shows the overtaking of technology and manipulation of censorship. In America, technology has severely affected the way free speech is used and/or viewed. We are given the right to free speech to an extent. We are given free speech while the government has the power of censorship making our words selective and politically correct. This causes outbursts of anger by the public. My purpose is to explain that this novel is important because, the oppression of freedom within the dystopian world of the novel is, in some ways, apparent in the real world. The feelings felt by Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451 are similar to feelings felt by everyday Americans whose words are repressed by the government, but when