Fahrenheit 451 Research Paper

Have you ever had an argument with an idea you have presented? In Fahrenheit, 451 people have a grown accustomed that ideas lead to chaos and unhappiness. Fahrenheit 451 takes place in the 24th century where a guy named montag whose job was to start fires to burn banned books being hidden. Montag later knows he is unhappy with his life and books may find the key to his happiness.

This in itself destroys society. One may argue that censorship of books prevents any spread of misleading information. In which some cases this is true but we must keep in mind that because all the information is censored information provided by society is believed the ability of any other source of information to create their own ideas. For example, In Fahrenheit 451," 'We stand against the small

tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought' "(pg 59). The people with the censored information may not be able to tell the difference between the truth or lie.
Books are trustworthy for information. Censorship will lead to misleading information. For example, In Fahrenheit 451 it states "It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books." (pg 82). Not, only do books help, but it allows forming ideas and information. Books are the future and censorship destroys society.

Books played an important role throughout the book. The books were the only things left keeping people “unhappy” from being limited from presenting other ideas. For example, in the book, it states, “If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag . Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock check them so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because of the facts of that sort doesn't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with.”Montag's idea shifted and soon came to the realization that burning books and hurting people in the process was wrong. Along with that, he became curious about why and what they banned books for. A reoccurring event throughout the book is people's ignorance. For example in the “Fahrenheit 451”, the book states “ Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't like Uncle Tom's cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer on the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Serenity Montag. Peace, Montag. Take your fight outside. Better yet into the incinerator.” People began being used to thinking they were happy because they weren't thinking for themselves. When, they were presented with ideas which can be thought of as unequal because they either feel intimidated or inferior they felt the necessity to rat out the people who were different. They were afraid of change, individuality, and uniqueness.

The article “Censorship and Book Banning in America” by Melissa Kelly talks about why books are banned and ways to avoid books from being banned.

The article states,“Is it necessary to ban books? Each person answers these questions differently. This is the core of the problem for educators. Books can be found offensive for many reasons. Men John Steinbeck. Reason: Profanity Go Ask Alice Anonymous, Reason; Drug use, sexual situations, profanity A Day No Pigs Would Die Robert Newton Peck, Reason: Depiction of pigs mating and being slaughtered.” Books are being banned for the inappropriate/explicit use of content in the books and parents are complaining that they don’t want their kids to read these books. "Choose the books you use wisely. Make sure that they fit nicely into your curriculum you should have evidence which you can present that books you are using are necessary for the student".
Books are not all bad they can be interpreted in many ways. “Discuss the controversial issues in the book with the students. Explain to them the reasons those parts were necessary for the author’s work.” Books have explicit/inappropriate words to give the text meaning from the author's

perspective.

The novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is related to the book burning. An image which is when the Germans burned Jewish books, became they both support the theme of censorship. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, the books are burned because the government wants people to be easily manipulated. The firemen in the novel are the ones who burn the books, and the houses that have books. The theme is censorship because people are not allowed to read books; therefore, they have a lack of knowledge which leads to ignorance and ignorance becomes people that are easier to control. On May 1933 is when the Nazis burned a lot of the Jewish books this is shown on the image where the people stood around a pile of books that is burning while everyone is saluting heil Hitler. This image supports the theme of the censorship because the book burnings represent an element of censorship from the cultural, religious and political opposition. Controlled by the government.

In and why he used “ pages to Ashes”. He mentions that truth can be brittle and easily destroyed. The point of this poem is that he maintains that you can’t entirely stamp out the truth by burning books because a “ few charred words.” which shows violent censorship of suppression of the truth. It is a message of ignorance which inflicts the world. He displays this by saying “No one needs to burn it ignorance can dance in the absence of fire’. Pages that contain both truth and lies try to protect themselves from the fire. They appear victimized and the reader is pulled into contrary to the writings, being destroyed.

Books are key and essential in the novel throughout the entire way. In the story, Beatty a well-read man explains to Montag that censorship happened because the people allowed it. They wanted to be happy and not disturb their thoughts with things that were controversial. Beatty explains that the censorship did not come from the government, it came from the people. People stopped reading so that things could be done faster and make people happier m. The people chose the censorship, not the government.
Faber also admits his role in helping the government enact censorship. It couldn’t have happened without the role of the people. Faber says, “ I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I’m one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the guilty.” He was a coward and did not things done faster, they didn’t want ideas challenged, they didn’t want criticism, and they didn’t speak out when they saw censorship happening.

In conclusion, censorship leads to curiosity because there is a lack of knowledge in which leads to ignorance and ignorance becomes people that are easier to manipulate. This was shown in the novel when people didn’t know anything about the real world anymore and were only given information by the television which was controlled by the government.