Research Paper On Fahrenheit 451

Brett Lefler

Fletcher

English II

18 May 2018

Finals Research Essay Fiction books maybe removed from the curriculum as a whole. That has to do with the school board not seeing their true value. Fiction books can have an effect on the people who read them. Whether it be positive, or negative, fiction books can be just as important as nonfiction books can be. Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, for example, is set in a future where, about fifty years prior to the story, the populace gave up books and had most of them burned. The result of this was that most citizens had little to no free thought as countries control their citizens’ thoughts second handedly through propaganda. Though we haven’t given up books, this gives a good example of how

The lessons that can be learned from them, the entertainment or immersions that can be had, and all that could be lost if censorship goes too far are all reasons to keep books around fiction and nonfiction alike.

Fiction books, even at elementary school levels, teach lessons to their readers, sometimes more important lessons than nonfiction books. They can be as simple as learning the share, but also as complex as learning about the issues of keeping censorship from going too far. Fahrenheit 451 talks about censorship and how their society was affected by the censoring, removal, and burning of all books, which is best expressed on pages eighty one to eighty five. Bradbury’s purpose to this was to express that it is not the books that are special, it’s the knowledge and the lessons that are held within them that are important. This can relate back to how the school board wants to

In the times of Fahrenheit 451, the people who gave up books left their descendants with flat, depthless entertainment that was then taken over by propaganda. This was used to put the people into more of a mental blur with propaganda, prevent deeper thoughts, and create a second-hand thought control. In the world today there is flat, depthless entertainment on TV, but there is also very deep and meaningful forms of entertainment in other places, like books. This is because, unlike the people in Fahrenheit 451, we recognize the importance of books and reading fiction and nonfiction alike. Nonfiction books can take you back to ancient egypt or to visit ancient rome, but that doesn’t mean that fiction can’t do the same, in fact fiction can do more. They can be as ridiculous as a story about a pirate crew who live in the arctic or as serious as an orphan trying to fit in to a new home. The story Fahrenheit 451 elaborated on this when Montag evaded the police and escaped to the countryside, he felt that he had entered a world of dreams, one of beauty and one that he had only read about in a book. This relates back to the world in the sense that the entertainment of TV is meant to hook people for thirty to sixty minutes and make them want to come back next week. That shows that entertainment can be easily obtained, but not as easily moving or impacting for