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Book Banning is Misguided. Book banning refers to the restriction of access to a book through assertion of processes initiated by a ruling organization or individual. Targeted books mostly those in schools, libraries or book stores are challenged by individuals in any particular society due to kind of content illustrated in them. Generally, the content is normally categorized as immoral by the challengers who believe that the said content can pollute or adversely influence a young readers mind.…

things that were going on in it. In the book, the main character, Huck, runs away with a slave boy named Jim. The two of them grow a bond and go on many adventures together on their raft. They even gain a few others with them. They gained a 30 year old guy who is said to be the long-lost son of an English duke, and an older man who claims he id the Lost Dauphin and should be the king of France. The book is fine to be in the class rooms, in my opinion, but possibly for the more mature groups so…

3. Throughout this story, Jimmy is becoming a changed man and he is trying to figue out the path that he wants to take in life. Jimmy stumbles upon the girl of his dreams and he wants her to become apart of his new and honest life. "[He's] got a nice store. [He's] making an honest living, and [he's] going to marry the finest girl on earth in two weeks from now. It's the only life...the straight one." When Jimmy writes this letter to Billy, he is being truthful, he really does love Annabell…

Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 is a story about a lifestyle in the future that has evolved from our society today, but in a different world. The main purpose in a person's life in that world was to relax, not think, and be happy, with the use of electronics. While you may think it's a book about a world in the future that represent's censorship, it can be used as a warning of what could happen to our society if we rely on technology and the media. In Fahrenheit 451, the government…

freaks will do. So when duty called to answer one of the most important questions about the Baudelaires, she had to give her "interrogator" what they wanted. Throughout the series and the Baudelaires life, Count Olaf has been obsessed with stealing the family fortune of the millionaires. So he went to the hinterlands to ask of the Baudelaires whereabouts, information on them, and everything he could know of the parents. However, Madame Lulu could only answer one question per day, so he had to…

The role of books in both novels is slightly different, but both come back to a general theme that is used in both novels. In both novels, the authors use books as something that provides knowledge to a community but the government is trying to suppress this knowledge. In “The Book Thief” books play a role in several different ways. Liesel steals a book which then helps to teach her how to read and write. This makes her very interested in reading new books. Liesel then starts to steal more…

In the story “Fahrenheit 451” the main problem is that many people’s houses or libraries are being burned down and all of the books inside are being totally destroyed. The main character, Guy Montag, was a fireman and had been a fireman for ten years. This story takes place in the future where the firemen set the fires, rather than putting the fires out. The firemen are setting the houses and buildings on fire because they all think that that books are bad for everyone that reads them. One day…

The main character of Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, is Guy Montag. Montag is a firefighter, a burner of books, with very limited perspective on the flawed society he lives in. As the book progresses, Montag experiences many uncomfortable feelings as he starts to learn the consequences of his role. Montag goes from an ignorant participant to a discontented rebel. The book opens with a detailed description of Montag, his burning of a house, and his “fiery grin”. Montag describes burning…

complex character would be a person who is mixed between nature and experience, such as a person who has Catholic views, but believes in gay rights although they were brought up to believe it was wrong. Most stories have a complex character, such as Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451. Montag is a perfect example of a complex character. Montag is a fire fighter, but he is not an ordinary fire fighter. In the society of “Fahrenheit 451”, firefighters do not stop the fires, they start them. In the…

Censorship is a practice that is continuously used to shield people from reality- banning and suppressing speech that is considered “harmful” to others. Banned books have continuously played a significant role in our contemporary American culture- depicting both civil and ethical issues in our society. Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, and Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, were both novelists who produced books that fell victim to censorship, being banned for their artistic…