Hopefully this paper doesn’t become censored or banned just like Fahrenheit 451. considering the fact we need to censor certain things and situations, doesn't mean we need to over do it and ruin certain things(thoughts or ideas) for people. Looking back on the history of Fahrenheit 451, it was very controversial for its content. People were becoming very easily offended by the language, the plot, and the character actions. Thus causing the book itself to be banned and censored. If you’re going to use censorship, don’t have it be too conservative. There’s some situations or things that are needing of censorship. Just because you are easily offended by something that is not directly pointed at you then ignore it. Don’t cause issues that aren’t worth causing and ruining things for others because you’re offended.
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All Bradbury was trying to do was warn people, especially students who are growing up with all this new technology, not to get so sucked into it that you forget the power of books. But, as soon as people started reading the book they became very easily offended. Whether it be language, scenes occurring, behavior of people, or conflict. People started finding reasons to shut down the open minded because of a couple of “curse” words or someone burning a bible. Adding onto this, people believed it was wrong because saying “curse” words can corrupt students’ minds and doesn’t show them how to “properly” deal with reality. Which in this case was what Ray Bradbury was trying to achieve (Lee;Laughlin 5). In all honesty, you’re showing them as well what reality is, thus being overly offended humans. According to Bradbury’s society in Fahrenheit 451, you need to censor, you need to remove intelligence, and you need to be ignorant. However, it was as if a warning. Considering now, people are doing all those things to our society, it’s not very surprising that Bradbury was
To begin …show more content…
All Bradbury was trying to do was warn people, especially students who are growing up with all this new technology, not to get so sucked into it that you forget the power of books. But, as soon as people started reading the book they became very easily offended. Whether it be language, scenes occurring, behavior of people, or conflict. People started finding reasons to shut down the open minded because of a couple of “curse” words or someone burning a bible. Adding onto this, people believed it was wrong because saying “curse” words can corrupt students’ minds and doesn’t show them how to “properly” deal with reality. Which in this case was what Ray Bradbury was trying to achieve (Lee;Laughlin 5). In all honesty, you’re showing them as well what reality is, thus being overly offended humans. According to Bradbury’s society in Fahrenheit 451, you need to censor, you need to remove intelligence, and you need to be ignorant. However, it was as if a warning. Considering now, people are doing all those things to our society, it’s not very surprising that Bradbury was