When I was in fourth grade I wasn’t the “cool” kid because I hadn’t seen a R rated movie. This brings up the idea of censorship. Some of these parents were letting their kids see these and some were not.

In Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury demonstrates his deep concern for censorship. In this book all books are censored and no one can read them. This is because the society wants to just be happy and with books it makes people sad. If a book has something in it that a person doesn’t like it might make them mad or if the book is too long they won’t read and it will make them mad. So the government just burns the books to try to keep the society happy. Bradbury expresses the consequences of censorship in many ways throughout the book. For example,