* What is the major theme of this novel? Why is this theme important to a teenager living in 2007?
-The major theme of ‘Fahrenheit 451’ by Ray Bradbury is censorship. It is a story the world in the future when firemen burn all the books as their occupations. There are some reasons the government banned to read books, such as: books are no good entertainments, books are harmful, books cause irritations, etc. The society’s focus is only on entertainments. The largest entertainment in the future is television. People are entertained by televisions instead of books. It is said that books are harmful to people, because they tell different thoughts and lead to fights (a common fight topic would be religions). One specific example Bradbury gives in the book is Betty mentioning about dog lovers offended by books about cats, and cat lovers offended by books about dogs.
This theme is very important to people, especially teenagers in 2007, because they are more interested in electrical devices (computers, televisions, mp3s, etc.) than books. The developed technology allows teenagers to use computers to type, chat with others, send mails and play games. Because of the different varieties of using computers, there is almost no time of people reading books. If students need to read a specific book for a class, most of them use computer to find a brief summary of the book or even find someone else’s work and copy it! One of the top reasons students are using the computers instead of reading the book is to save time. But is that helping them? No. If they copy and paste others people’s thoughts and works, that is definitely not their own thoughts and feelings. The assignment will be pointless, since the students did not think nor read the book. Computers are necessary in our lives for quick communications, or fast research, but it is not a good choice to depend on computers for everything because computers are just electrical devices that can be destroyed easily.
This theme is very important to people, especially teenagers in 2007, because they are more interested in electrical devices (computers, televisions, mp3s, etc.) than books. The developed technology allows teenagers to use computers to type, chat with others, send mails and play games. Because of the different varieties of using computers, there is almost no time of people reading books. If students need to read a specific book for a class, most of them use computer to find a brief summary of the book or even find someone else’s work and copy it! One of the top reasons students are using the computers instead of reading the book is to save time. But is that helping them? No. If they copy and paste others people’s thoughts and works, that is definitely not their own thoughts and feelings. The assignment will be pointless, since the students did not think nor read the book. Computers are necessary in our lives for quick communications, or fast research, but it is not a good choice to depend on computers for everything because computers are just electrical devices that can be destroyed easily.
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2 comments:
Hi, Sukkyung! I'm Daray.
I haven't read the book 'Farenheit 451', but I could understand the theme of book throughly by your entry. I am also a teenager who is more comfortable with using electrical devices than others. Although adults emphasize the importance of reading books and writing with hand, I couldn't really agree to their thoughts. However, when I read your entry, I could realize that electrical devices are not the whole world and they have some problems.
Nice entries, Sukkyung! ^^
Your site is so interesting and well set out. Mrs.Mc.
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