Fahrenheit 451 “Let it Go”
“Are you happy?” Just like a quote from the book Fahrenheit 451, a question that brought up an emotion that couldn’t be answered by the main character. The same goes to the new generation of students that aren’t able to understand or read this book. With the beginning of new changes and becoming equal in our society, we start questioning everything that doesn’t seem right. Like how a firefighter is burning things up in smoke instead of putting it out. The word fire fighter is used loosely as someone who's actually fighting fire and making it bigger; in this case burning books. Maybe we are missing the main point, that burning up books has the same metaphorical meaning and erasing knowledge that could be able to change
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As a student goes into middle school, the students will be of the age 12, the age before hitting the teen era. With that in mind, the book Fahrenheit 451, introduces a world of metaphorical usage. This book goes into censorship as well as knowledge is the key to being free. Being able to think for yourself as well as challenge yourself is a key part of living as a person. The censorship of this book is book burning, but the correlation of the book being banned isn’t one issue to be raised up. Yes, a burning book is a symbol of burning the knowledge that could be used to resurrect the community, but also this book was also a symbol for burning people as well. I see this metaphor would be used to cover up a portion of our history in which the nazi’s were burning the jews. I do see this as an obstacle to bringing up the past, but with history repeating itself like everyone is saying, our students should also be able to handle that kind of burden as well. I’m not suggesting that our students should work in the fields like some generation before them, but being able to let the students imagine those hard times and see how far we’ve come as a race is astounding. With support from the American Library Association, we can hope to see some sense of relief in the future regarding literature that’s available in school