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Leisure To Digest Fahrenheit 451

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“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.” –Faber. In the book Fahrenheit 451 a man named Faber says that books have three worthwhile parts: quality of information, leisure to digest, and the right to carry out action. Fahrenheit 451 is by Ray Bradbury. This book contains all of these elements, and while doing so make a truly wonderful story.

Fahrenheit 451 has what Faber calls, “quality of information.” This means that the book has meaning, it isn’t just a bunch of random sentences with random words thrown together. And if this book had no meaning, it wouldn’t be banned from certain places, forbidden to be read. The meaning in this book is about how life in future is so simple and plain, wake up, work, home, the family, and sleep. People no longer go outside and do physical activities, and whom ever does is looked at as a psychopath. The only activities done are visiting the “family” which is television people that can talk to you. This book’s meaning is to show that life that we have now, is almost rule less and we allowed to do anything we dream. …show more content…

Leisure to digest means the ability to read and understand without forcefully learning it. In Fahrenheit 451 children go to school to only to learn, but they don’t have a choice, and they aren’t taught by actual teachers by “family” who lecture all day, and the information is forcefully learned and taught. But Ray Bradbury doesn’t do that, he pulls you in the book making you a character right next to Montag. Wanting to read more, picking up the book just to read for fun, not because it is forced, but because you want to join the adventures of Montag and Faber. Fahrenheit 451 completely covers the leisure to digest, without boring a reader or confusing

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