When Ray Bradbury left this Earth on the fifth of June, 2015, he left behind a legacy. While America’s foremost news source praises his legacy as author of Ray’s Tips for Top Grilling and the revolutionary sweet and spicy ribs recipe written therein, (entertainment.theonion.com) still others look to Bradbury for his contributions to human culture and philosophy through his considerable literary skill. Bradbury has composed a number of works of literary merit, while The Onion may prize Ray’s TIps for Top Grilling, eyes and minds across the globe turn to Farenheit 451 for the dual virtues of entertainment and enlightenment. Analyzers of the text will universally agree that a key theme and message conveyed in the book is the importance and inherent value of literature; Bradbury himself has openly acknowledged this, and, in the introduction to the graphic novel adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 went so far as to write, “anyone reading this introduction should take the time to name the one book that he or she would most want to memorize and protect from the censors or ‘FIREMEN.’ [And] give the reasons why they would wish to memorize it and why it would be a valuable asset to be recited …show more content…
In every section of the book, he warns of evils that are not potential, but real and present in every sect, and every faction of society. when Exupery writes of how baobabs must be uprooted when they are young, lest the grow overwhelming, and consume all that the Prince has, he is not writing of some frightening political eventuality the threatens the future of society; he is writing about the vices, desires, and addictions that threaten the lives of every last person who dares to look between the covers. When Exupery writes about the king, the conceited man, the tipler, the business man, and the lamplighter, he condemns the foibles that seduce so many of society’s