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Fahrenheit51 4 8

This is an essay over the book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. In this book two of the main characters are a man named Faber, who loves books, and the fire chief, Beatty, who destroys books. This essay will cover the reasons for the book being written, and the theories about books discussed by these two characters in this book. This book was written to show the evils of censorship. Ray Bradbury wrote this book because he could not stand the censorship going on around him and he wanted to speak out against it in his own way. At the time this book was written Bradbury was typing his books on typewriters either in his garage or in the basement of the library at the University of ...

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than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority...feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse." To Bradbury ripping a page or even a paragraph from a book was one of the worst sins imaginable.
One of the main characters in this book was named Faber, he was an elderly man who loved books but was too cowardly to join the underground movement of the book people. At one point in time Faber had been an English Professor, so he had read many books and was a very knowledgeable man. Faber knew what it was that had caused books to be banned and burned; he knew what it was in books that had kept the human spirit alive. Faber said, "So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, pore less, hairless, expressionless." Books had shown that life was not all frills and lace; they had shown the dark ...

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Added: 5/23/2006 05:19:15 PM
Category: English
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