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Why Is Fahrenheit 451 Be Banned

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“You don 't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” Ray Bradbury had said. Ray Bradbury was a well known American fantasy author that lived in the twentieth century. One of Ray Bradbury’s most renowned and best-known piece of work is his novel “Fahrenheit 45” that was published in 1953, right after World War Two. During the war, Ray Bradbury witnessed the Nazi book burnings as a teenager, where the Nazis would burn all books going against their beliefs. Bradbury also would have witnessed what is called “The Great Purge” where many poets and writers were either arrested or even executed. As he later became a writer, with him witnessing such events, it would only make sense for him to write a novel about a time where books are banned, to show the readers the importance of books in our society. Some themes discussed in this story are the themes of literature and writing, technology and modernisation, rules and order, wisdom and knowledge, violence, identity, dissatisfaction and man and the natural world. “Fahrenheit 451” is entered around Guy Montag, who gets curious about books, in a world where books are both banned and burned. This novel is about his journey in discovering more about books and more about his society. Separated into three parts, The Hearth and the Salamander, The Sieve and the Sand and finally Burning Bright, this book progresses in an exciting manner, where the readers get to learn more about this fictional, futuristic
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