Censorship In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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Censorship : to block certain information from someone, or to prevent them from doing specific things. In the dystopian future “Fahrenheit 451”, Ray Bradbury created an idea using censorship in which the most illegal object is a book. If one has a printed book, the job of a fireman is not to save people from fires, but instead to completely terminate the book, and the house in which it is being held. Basically, the fireman in this story, do the opposite of their present day jobs which describes a very terrible lifestyle for many. All over the world we have censorship, while it is true that in America we have very little and what we do have is certainly a lot less major than most countries around the world, I can still say that there is some in my life, such as websites being banned in schools, dress codes, and. …show more content…

Basically, the school blocks all of the websites that they think we should not be on during school, or at all. The website that they block could just be because they don’t want us to get distracted, such as a gaming site or social media. Otherwise it could be spam, or more likely a site that has inappropriate things on it. Banning these websites not only affects me, but everyone else in the school. Although most people do not like that the school does this, I think it is a good thing. If we were allowed on websites with games, I would most likely be playing them all day long and then I would never get any of my work done and I would be very behind in