The government is one of the most powerful things in a country! The government or major organization can change your whole perspective of how you live your life and how other people live their lives. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury shows you what kind of life could happen if you have an oppressive government and decide to go against an oppressive government and try and change it. Bradbury talks about how the government censors books from people so they can not learn material that is wrongful or not up to the standards of the government that is pushing this idea to the people. Guy Montag who was a enforcer of censorship and who finds out that it is wrong and wants to be a leader to change censorship in Fahrenheit 451 he realized the theme of censorship does more bad than good. …show more content…
Books, which are one of the items that the firemen are burning, can contain some of the most interesting and vital information to the society and its people. “It’s not the books you need, it’s some of the things that were in the books.” (Bradbury 149) Books were one of the first tools to keep all the information in the world in on some of the most useful information to the world, now computer have consumed those roles but books are still in play becasue they are original information . Books are depleting but still have a great effect on history and the world today. “It would be easy for someone to set up partial combination on the Hound’s ‘memory’... that would account for the animal did just now. Reacted toward me.” (Bradbury 26-27) Censorship is all about controlling what people see, read, write and much more. Thoughts are controlled and that is what the quote is showing, that is a form of censorship. We need books and their knowledge to understand the past and how to do new thing and to develop