People of the Book

In this book, Emery-Wright (1012) refers to young people. Throughout this book all the references the author makes is to teenagers. An example of this is in the introduction of the book ‘16 year old Emily describes the music at Glastonbury as the greatest “worship” she had ever experienced and carried on to contrast it with her experience at church.’ (Emery-Wright, S, 2012, p1) This is just one case of many where Emery-Wright uses conversation he has had with young people to make a point. In…

longer seeing books as evil and were outlawed which is why they result to burning them. All the events within the story display a message of ignorance,blind obedience,censorship,effort,as well as seeing the importance of books. Bradbury 's fear of society ending up like his novel maybe becoming more of a reality than fiction. Society in the novel no longer see the books as valuable and instead label them as evil and society in the real world may be headed in the same direction because books are…

journey between a young boy named Huck and a slave that he befriends known as Jim. This book was a well written book, that some people think every high schooler should read. But some people have issues with the book. Huckleberry Finn is not a racist book, but many people take offence to the language that it used in the novel, like the use of the N-word over two hundred times. People seem to forget that this book was written in a time in America when the use of the N-word was the common word…

As this book was interesting to read it can be viewed by the readers as mean or informative based on the individual person. For a person who is studying to become a teacher, this book gives mixed messaged for our day and age. Given that Monro Leaf is an amazing author and the “Can Be Fun…” books are very informative and helpful for young children. This book “Being an American Can Be Fun” can be viewed as offensive in the time we live in now. Leaf had covered many topics in his book ranging from…

Reading Response to The Book Thief The Book Thief reminds me of The Book Thief movie, some poems about the war, and some paintings about the war. The title of the film from the book is The Book Thief, the other book is Het Achterhuis from Anne Frank, and the poem is The Charge Of The Light Brigade. I will focus on the movie version of the book. The medium is the film. The film includes the drama, music, and visual art. These are other arts. The work was made by Fox 2000 pictures and…

Banned book week What you think about books being banned in a free country?while you're pondering about books being banned lots of books across the US have been banned for so many reasons like sexually explicit ,unsuited for certain age groups,drugs ,alcohol ,smoking ,homosexuality and these are mostly banned in public school and libraries. Thanks to American library association for defending the writers to promote the freedom of writing and expressing them selfs in their books. The perks of…

Setting of the book The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is set in the 24th century and depicts an imagined futuristic society in the US. The norms of this society is defined with overpopulation, fast cars that the author christens jet cars, large televisions are a common feature in most of the houses and people listen to radios attached to their ears. The TV sets serves as the main source of entertainment and also used by the government to spread propaganda. Family life as we know it today…

The book Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, is about a potential future that awaits us. The book deciphered how people don’t read books due to the technology made for them. The more prominent the technology was, the more others can read other commodities online. Although people do not read books, it shows how people are not “in play” to interact with things other than an electric device, which introduces them to social solitude with the human life. Despite how other people feel about this book,…

result, everyone has shifted away from books and the knowledge they provide. Society then orders the firemen to burn books so that nobody has to read their "lies". Through the use of metaphor and contrasting ideas for books, Bradbury shows that destroying knowledge to “save” life ultimately leaves it dull and meaningless. Through the use of Beatty’s speech about why firemen burn books, Bradbury reveals that it was the people that originally decided that the books should be removed. This leads…

Book Banning is the attempt to remove material. Books are removed for their explicit content. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor was banned for racism and explicit language. To challenge a book means to try to remove a book (Crum, 1). Over 11,300 books have been challenged. Once a year there is Banned Books Week (Banned, 1). During banned books week readers can see why some books have been banned. In these past few years the main reason for books being banned has been books that…