Knowledge In Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 conveys that knowledge is important and that books are an essential part of life, and should not be put to waste.

Ray Bradbury conveys to us in his book that Knowledge cannot be achieved by listening to other’s ideas and being told what to think, but by reading books and finding our own knowledge and creating our own thoughts. The text stated “Ah, love, let us be true to one another! For the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night.” (Bradbury 100) This text shows that the world can lie and give of pain. Bradbury writes in his book that we need to achieve our own knowledge by reading books.

“Last night I thought about all the kerosene that I’ve used in the past ten years. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of those books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And id never thought that thought before.” (Bradbury 52). “It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! It’s all over.” (Bradbury 52) This shows that books have a deeper meaning and that they were written with a purpose not just to be covered in dust or burnt but put to use. Bradbury hopes that we don’t put books to waste because they were written with a big purpose and the author could have spent a big part of their lives writing the book contemplating life and the world with a deep thought. Books should not be put to