Fahrenheit+451

 Summary: Fahrenheit 451 is about a fireman named Guy Montag that lives in the future. In this future, people are censored by the government to try and make them happier. They burn all books and the houses that hold them in an attempt to keep the citizen’s from realizing the pain and suffering of the world. Instead, the people watch TV all day long, rarely communicate, and live dull, meaningless lives. By getting rid of books, and censoring society many people commit suicide and there’s much violence. In this book an English professor, Faber, says that three things are missing from a world without books, quality of information, the leisure to digest it, and the right to carry out actions based on what we learned from the first two. That society is corrupt.
 * By, Ray Bradbury **

Reason: I thought this book would be helpful in the future because it teaches people their wrongs of censorship. That it limits people’s thinking and they just assume everything’s ok. You need to understand the world around before you can be truly happy. Hopefully, this will influence the people of the future to second guess the things they’ve been taught to figure out if what they’ve been doing is right. And make the changes needed to improve and not let society control you. Also, this book describes how too much technology isn’t always a good thing, and that all this technology can make you lazy and non-sociable. In Fahrenheit, Guy’s wife’s idea of socializing is watching TV together. They don’t talk about anything or have deep conversations like we do now. It’s ok to have technology but you can’t let it control your life. And that’s a very important message that people of the future will receive when reading this book. Finally, I believe this book can give people the courage and will to want to stand up and make a difference. In Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is sick of how society is being run. So, Guy and Faber think up a plan that might make a difference. And the people, who read this book, might realize the only way to make a difference to get up there and do it. All in all, this book teaches many life lessons that might be lost in the future. And that’s why I think it’ll be a helpful resource to keep.

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