Coda From Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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Bradbury in his “Coda from Fahrenheit 451,” asserts that editors and minorities ruin authors’ work by taking out or censoring anything they see as unacceptable. He develops his claim by utilizing violent imagery in order to criticize censorship. Bradbury illustrates how the editors “skin” the stories and leave them “leeched and bled white.” Moreover, Bradbury provides real-world anecdotes in order to elaborate on his frustrations. He recalls how “75 separate sections” of Fahrenheit 451 were edited out for fear of “contaminating the young.” Finally, Bradbury utilizes rhetorical questions in order to force the reader to contemplate the situation and realize the magnitude of the problem; he asks, “Do you begin to get the damned and incredible