In Fahrenheit 451, censorship plays an enormous role and is one of the
most important themes. In this novel´s world, as ironic as it sounds, firemen started
the fire instead of extinguishing it. The people of this society do not think independently and having a social life, a conversation with another human being, they
had none. Even books were considered old-fashioned and people who read them,
they were risking their lives because there was a group of people who wanted to
erase all the old ideas and made the world, their society, a futuristic place. Their
futuristic ideas were to watch an extreme amount of television and listen to the
radio which was attached to their ears. Because they didn´t read, they were afraid
of themselves ,
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They censored a bunch of things. They were some people that
they kept to their believes and preferred dying over leaving what they truly loved.
´´There must be something in books, things we can´t imagine, to make a
woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don´t stay for
nothing´´. –Guy Montag. Although the books and people have fallen victims to
censorship , some are willing to sacrifice their lives to ensure that books remain
alive. This may have made people to start thinking about how someone was
capable to die for an object. The thing that they didn´t know is that books can make
your mind travel, knowledgeable, and entertain in a better way than television
entertains them. The government sent a group of people that were in charge for
killing all the old-fashioned material, by material I mean people and objects too.
This old lady lived in the times that televisions didn´t exist so the only
entertainment she got was her books, and she loved to read. But when she grew
older, things changed, the people and the way that they think. Even though,
everything changed , she didn´t care about all the changes she just stick to what
she loves. So, this group of people had a new target and it was this old lady.