Non Fiction In Fahrenheit 451

Fiction has inspired people to great things. Create things that people did not think possible. Fiction stories help create the imagination of children to grow up and do great things. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury portrays when a society censors reading and literature people become very narrow minded. Even though non-fiction shows real world problems, fiction allows people to expand their creativity, does not limit the expression through literature, and makes them fall in love with reading.
Literature is a gateway for people to expand their knowledge and learn new things. It gives us a sense of our self’s when we are able to travel to different places by just sitting in one place. But school boards and education leaders think that fiction will limit our

potential. In an article, “Shift to more nonfiction in schools becoming reality” by Alan J. Borsuk he states that, “’I believe it's a strong disservice to kids to spend too much time on fiction when they don't have good nonfiction skills,’ he said. Nonfiction prepares kids better for the real world, he said”. I disagree with this statement because non-fiction only shows us the rotten side of the world. Reading fiction does not hinder us but does the opposite and helps with new ideas and makes stimulates our brain and helps us march on.
Reading fiction stimulates younger people imagination and motivates them to create and explore extraordinary things. In the article, “Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming” by Neil Gaiman. He expands on, “Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.” Gaiman explains how fiction can help a child explore the possibilities in this world and improve on them. Sure you can hand a child a book on the 1950s but that is limiting them. If you just cram facts in there head there nothing left for them to think for themselves.
Reading is a big part of the learning process for humans.

Education leaders are pushing schools to make students read more non-fiction in English class. They say that students don’t have any non-fiction skills but all schools require history classes. On a constant bases we are reading non-fiction information and comparing it to the real world. In my experience every time we compare history to the times now we realize that we have been messing up for a long time. But we also learn that the greatest minds in history got ideas from things that did not exist. Even during the time that books did not exist humans told fictional stories around a fire. In the same article by Neil Gaiman he states that, “The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity. And that means, at its simplest, finding books that they enjoy, giving them access to those books, and letting them read them.” So you have to let them read fiction. Fiction will drive them to fall in love with reading. If they fall in love with it then they are able to be more literate and expand their imagination. When if only reading non-fiction they won’t be able

to.
At the end of the day fiction should not be eliminated from schools because of it expands creativity, does not hinder you, and gives you a passion for reading. If we let the education leaders continue on with pushing to remove fiction the next generation of us are going to be narrow mined people. Instead of moving forward in life we will move backwards. Fiction needs to stay in lives of the students.