Book is a loaded gun (Kara)

Captain Beatty says, “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?”  I believe by the quote captain Beatty says he is giving books a lot of power, almost like they see books as a threat that’s why they ban and burn them. Books have a lot of power because it has powerful knowledge. One reason why I think their society thinks its easier to ban books than to learn is because they are lazy and don’t have the ability to learn something new. Another reason is because they are so use to the process of discouraging books, banning and burning them that they never gave it a chance. They think it’s easier to ban books than to just think! When its really the other way around.  I cannot see this happening to our world because we have the ability to think, teach and learn. And sometimes we don’t even ready books to learn and study some read them for fun. If this were to happen to our world I think it would change how people look at life, all that reading learning and teaching for nothing. Captain Beatty’s society is negative; they don’t give new things a chance even if it’s for the better. Our society is way more positive than theirs. 

Banning Books (Niecee)

         Personally, I think that it was easier just to ban the books & burning everything having to do with history, rather than having to face what happen then compared to what’s happening now in the future.

In Fahrenheit 451 the officials didn’t want everything to know that there was once upon a time that they were able to read books. In Captain Beatty say’s “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?” this means that no matter what you thought of what you think you might know, someone knowledge can change your whole perspective about of things are supposed to be.

Can I see this happening on our society today? No, I mean they can only try so much to hide things away from society before someone actually finds out what they’re up to. Bases on all the technology that’s being made & or not even thought of yet, makes it even more harder to actually go around to each & every state, every country trying to burn books. Everyone has the freedom to read & do what you will at your approximate age that you be given to do things on your own free will, without having to deal with that law.

Trying to ban something or anything from begin seen or read is just taking away everyone right from having the “Freedom of speech.”

        

Banned Books (Kenia)

Books can mean so much to someone. They can have the power to take over someone. They have some type of power that wont let the person let go of them. I think that society decided to ban books because they probably thought that it was bad for people, such as kids and teens. They didn’t give it a chance at all. Books and reading are not bad. They actually help people out a lot. Maybe they thought that it was some type of bad influence and that they didn’t need it at all, because of the fact that they never experience it or lived it, I bet that they didn’t even give it a chance at all. In some way they couldn’t of thought that it wasn’t worth the time to teach people. But I don’t understand? If kids went to school what did they learn? If they didn’t teach them how to read? Too me its all confusing, I think books and reading are a major part of a school, and huge part of teaching. I don’t see the point of people doing this, or why they even did it. I honestly don’t see this going on in our world anymore, well maybe in some states yea, but not here in Kansas. After a long period of time things changed. Books are stopped form being band. More books are even coming out. I’m guessing that they finally understood how important and needed this is and maybe that’s why it stopped or at least it calm down. But from my point of view things have changed big time.