Fahrenheit 451

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Books are a source of entertainment and information, they also represent people and show their interests. Books define people in some way, it has been researched that people who read comic books mostly play video games. Most people that read calm books tend to be calmer than say all the fire, gang and violent books. Many times books help us realize things we have never thought of or just did not understand, in the book Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag reads a poem from forbidden books to three ladies, including Mrs. Phelps, who realized things she had never realized.
Books are also resources for people to use when studying or looking something up here too. We can also see a person's interest and what they like to learn and read about. When
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Books can also change people , the book “The Prince” was read by thousands of people and many wanted that type of power and went seeking for it. When you read a book you have to be able to have the control to stay the your own person and not turn into a person from a book because it seems more appealing than your life. Books can change people for the bad, although books can also change people for the better. Books are great for researching, finding things and pursuing your career, there were no technology, computers, and all the resources we have now help us realize what our calling is in life, and all those geniuses were able to make their way into history. Books are more than people realize, also make people be who they are and make them work for their future, not just given to them. Books determine how hard people work for what they excel for. There are so many books in the world and all were spent time on and written by people that wanted to make their dreams to happen because they wanted to be that person to inspire others by making their dreams. Being interested in nursing, has made me want to research and study even more about

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