Introduction
Hook:
Fire destroys, but it also ignites. Fire makes a statement, and cannot be ignored. One use of fire, is the burning of books.
Audience Adapter:
We all read books, and it is important to know what people have tried to destroy, and why.
Topic:
Book burnings through history are important to understand and be informed about.
Definition- According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a book burning is the ritual destruction by fire of books or other written materials.
Credibility:
I first became interested in book burnings and the motive behind them when I read the fictional book titled, “The Book Thief,” by Markus Zusak, which is about a girl who steals books to read in Nazi Germany, when books are very scarce. I …show more content…
Next, I will go over the second effect of book burnings, which is publicly degrading a belief system, and promoting a personal set of ideas as superior.
And lastly, I will inform on the third effect of book burnings, which is an inadvertent one. This is actually spreading awareness of the burned content, as well as highlighting the importance of freedom of speech. This is not intended, but is still an effect of book burnings, especially today.
Body
To begin, the first effect of book burnings is censorship of the material. Book burnings have been used to censor books from readers all throughout history .
In 213 B.C., Emperor Shih Huang Ti of China, according to writer and reporter for Time, Kayla Webley, tried to burn all documents in his kingdom, so that history would start with him. He even went so far as to burn scholars with them to truly eradicate “old ideas.”
In 1519, Spanish Conquistadors burn texts of the Aztec Culture. Historian Kenneth Baker highlights the bonfires that occurred in 1519, when the Conquistadors burned “pagan books” that were evidence of the Aztecs
Hook:
Fire destroys, but it also ignites. Fire makes a statement, and cannot be ignored. One use of fire, is the burning of books.
Audience Adapter:
We all read books, and it is important to know what people have tried to destroy, and why.
Topic:
Book burnings through history are important to understand and be informed about.
Definition- According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a book burning is the ritual destruction by fire of books or other written materials.
Credibility:
I first became interested in book burnings and the motive behind them when I read the fictional book titled, “The Book Thief,” by Markus Zusak, which is about a girl who steals books to read in Nazi Germany, when books are very scarce. I …show more content…
Next, I will go over the second effect of book burnings, which is publicly degrading a belief system, and promoting a personal set of ideas as superior.
And lastly, I will inform on the third effect of book burnings, which is an inadvertent one. This is actually spreading awareness of the burned content, as well as highlighting the importance of freedom of speech. This is not intended, but is still an effect of book burnings, especially today.
Body
To begin, the first effect of book burnings is censorship of the material. Book burnings have been used to censor books from readers all throughout history .
In 213 B.C., Emperor Shih Huang Ti of China, according to writer and reporter for Time, Kayla Webley, tried to burn all documents in his kingdom, so that history would start with him. He even went so far as to burn scholars with them to truly eradicate “old ideas.”
In 1519, Spanish Conquistadors burn texts of the Aztec Culture. Historian Kenneth Baker highlights the bonfires that occurred in 1519, when the Conquistadors burned “pagan books” that were evidence of the Aztecs