Importance Of Happiness In Fahrenheit 451

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Happiness is something that is important in my life. I may not be happy all the time but I always try to make sure my family and friends are no matter what is happening. Happiness is one of the best emotions you can feel. It is an emotion that has no scientific definition it is just the feeling of joy and being content with how you are in your life. Happiness is important to me because it makes me feel motivated and like I can do anything I set my mind to. It is also important because of my family, wanting them to be happy even when it has been a terrible day for all of us.

The characters in Fahrenheit 451 are not happy. They might think they are happy but they are not, Mildred, Montag’s wife, tried to commit suicide and later in the story
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I do not think it is right that they did this to the citizens. One of the Inalienable Rights is the pursuit of happiness. An Inalienable Right is something that can not be taken away from somebody and is something that you are born with. That is why it is terrible that the government is censoring things that could make them happy because it does not match their opinions. The government is burning books that they do not want the public to have because they might form their own opinions from the information they read. By doing this they make a lot of people unhappy because they want to read and learn more than they knew. In conclusion, the government should censor some things, like things that could hurt people or cause a mass panic, but not things that can make people happy like reading or writing stories just because it does not match their beliefs and/or opinions.

This is why happiness is important. It also shows why the government should not censor certain things from the public. It also shows that the characters in the novel are not happy because of the government and what they are hiding from them. Happiness is something everybody needs to survive, even if you think you do not need to be happy you do because it make it to where you can keep on moving and survive even if you do not want

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