Comparing Fahrenheit 451 And The Book Thief

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To many people books are just words on paper, but to others books represent a way of living. The books help citizens make choices on daily activities and help discover what knowledge to pass on to others. Books help a culture or society improve and grow in multiple ways. The words that are printed onto the pages of a story affects individuals, education, and culture as a whole. Since books affect all of those groups, it is hard to imagine a world without them. How different would life be with all the changes in the groups where books have affected them?
When you read a book you transform into both the author and the character. The story makes you see events or problems in a different way because you are looking at the situation from a different perspective. An example of this is between Montag and Mildred, “It tells you what to think and blasts it in.” (Bradbury 80). This is how Mildred lives her life, she allows the television to do the thinking for her. …show more content…

Literature leads to the freedom of thought within a society; and with freedom of thought citizens generate new ideas and are not afraid to think their mind. This results in the growth of a culture and teamwork of individuals from coming together to solve a problem. In Fahrenheit 451 and The Book Thief there is a similar issue in the way most of society acts. Both of the cultures in the stories are against literature, this is so every citizen thinks what the government wants it to and does not generate any other ideas. This same situation is shown in the article 11 Book Burning Stories. “… any books they had that were not the Catholic Bible were burned with them.” (Benjamin 3). This shows that specific societies did not want citizens to possibly go against what they wanted them to believe. Books affect cultures and societies in such a way that our world would be drastically different if books were

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