Paper books are becoming an endangered species, and we’ve been warned about what can happen going down this road. In the book fahrenheit 451 it is an alternate future where all books are outlawed and if you're caught with them they will be seized and burned. At the time it was surely a warning to the people of america with the rise of the television. Today though it can still be used as a warning. More and more people are using books less and less in favor of electronic media. the internet and TV is used for news and entertainment instead of books and newspapers. paper books are being abandoned in favor of electronic books and movies. Books are a dying breed and while it is unlikely they will ever be outlawed (unless there’s a massive wood shortage and books can be printed) it can still serve as a warning today that we can't forget all the great things we can learn from books. …show more content…
People preferring movies over books, just reading a summary of a book instead of reading it is becoming a popular theme. Not being able to actually hold the book or turn the pages leaves out part of the experience. “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” is what was said in fahrenheit 451 and can apply to us today. some people can't read something on a flashing screen and need the paper there to read. These people are slowly dying out along with paper books. " 'You know the law,' said Beatty. 'Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel' "(Bradbury 35) Beatty is saying here that books don't make sense. In our time and the books time media has been so compressed you can learn the entire storyline of a book in a few minutes instead of taking hours or days to read books rendering them useless to some