Captain Beatty (Ayana)

            Captain Beatty in Fahrenheit 451 speaks of books as if they hold the whole world in between their pages. Books hold the knowledge of the world actually because if we can’t get to a book, where do we go?

A book.

Exactly.

Captain Beatty is laying the power for the people to think in his world to the books. They are denied the right to read though, so no reading, no knowledge, and the first man to open a page is the terminators come back to life. I think the society in Fahrenheit 451 decided to ban books because they didn’t like the pain and suffering of knowing the truths about the world. No books, add up to no questions of the world.

I thought about it and honestly I can see this happening in today’s modern world. I see bookstores closing every year, less people buying or reading books. Books are falling to the feet of all the new electronics and happiness people like. Yes, some people download books onto their Kendall’s but in reality it is not the same. We will get distracted easily reading off our new shiny toy. We see something and the next thing we know were tweeting, face booking, goggling and leaving that story in he USB graveyard.

Books are the world, I cannot say this any clearer. Electronics die and break but books are forever. You can bind that page, or glue that part back in.  Down the road, if the knowledge is lost we can count on books to be there to guide us. The point in the matter is that Captain Beatty is leaving the power of knowledge on books doorstep. It’s humans choice to follow if we so choose.