In answer to your original question, I believe it is supposed to be commentary on the times we live in. People are more concerned with entertainment tgey are willing to sacrifice liberty rather than be inconvenienced by fighting for it. Or something along those lines.
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· 7 years ago
@thenewlazybones its not about just burning the book, the match is there to be able to destroy the book before getting caught since it was punished inside the book if you owned one.
Think 1984, a future where knowledge and education is regarded as dangerous, so they hold regular book burning's to keep the population uneducated and believing the governments lies. A fantastic novel, especially as the main character is just an ordinary person who has completely fallen for it, instead of being "the chosen one" or whatever. Definitely recommend.
OK...sounds awesome. Loved 1984.
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· 7 years ago
Don't worry about being old, the younger generation reads the classics too. I'm 16 and I read this book over a year ago and it instantly became one of my favourites.
"Think 1984, a future were knowledge and education is regarded as dangerous, so they hold regular book burning's to keep the population uneducated and believing the governments lies. A fantastic novel, especially as the main character is just an ordinary person who has completely fallen for it, instead of being "the chosen one" or whatever. Definitely recommend."
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I don't recommend this book to anyone. It's slow, boring and it's mechanics are so unlikely, they're silly. The story takes place in a dystopia where babies are put in a room with books and shocked when they touch them, so the become all scared when they see a book. Not when they see a word or try to write or draw something, they are taught to specifically avoid books (because posters and signs are never part of a protest). Then one of the characters is rehearsing a play or something in the privacy of her own home, which means expressive outlets are allowed and for some reason this doesn't spark creativity and a need to record/write any epiphany (have you ever seen communist programming? No one's going to be acting it out for fun because it's ment to be as depressing as shit to crush the soul.) It's like the author thinks books are a living thing that are specifically needed to free humanity and doesn't realise humanity is needed to free humanity, books be damned.
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a) I think you missed the point of the book. It makes books a symbol for ones own humanity, and symbolic of their freedom to express themselves. b) This was based on real history, such as Nazi Germany, the complete opposite of communism (not really but you get my point). And yes, they did have posters and signs and plays but they specifically hated books (just like a certain novel). Their reasons for this was the books they were specifically about the humanisation or genuine portrayals of Jewish people, which didn't fall in line with Nazi ideals, and books are far harder to regulate then posters, plays, T.V and radio. However, with the goals of the government in this novel being isolationist, and wanting to avoid any knowledge whatsoever that doesn't conform to their ideals, realistically it's easier to just ban the whole lot. c) Communism doesn't work that way. You're thinking of Authoritarianism, which can sometimes go hand in hand with communism (most prevalent in North Korea+USSR)
I tried to read it. I really did. But I couldn't keep up with his insane ADHD-like writing. Who the hell said what to who and now what's happening but how did that even get there-- yeah I was out before the first 50 pages were
http://eliperez.com/portfolio/fahrenheit-451/
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