Irony and Book Burning (Kennie)

Irony means the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. The Nazi where one group of people who burnt books back in the 1900’s, they burned 18,000 in public and 25,000 more books including works by Albert Einstein, Vicki Baum, Bertolt Brecht, Heinrich Heine, Helen Keller, Thomas Mann, Karl Marx, Erich Maria Remarque, Frank Wedekind, Ernest Hemingway and H.G. Wells. Also in May 1940, Belgium was destroyed by the German army and 900,000 books where burned. This was after 300,000 more books were burned in WWI at the same library. The Nazi where burning specific books, the Nazi burned books of the Jewish authors. Do I see irony in people finding motivation to burn books? No I don’t, I think that to burn a book and erase someone’s work from history, you have to want to do it or hate that someone. I think they find their motivation to burn a book in a book, if its against their beliefs or like how the Nazi burned only Jewish books. 

Book Banning (Kim)

Books are very powerful and always useful. Books are always needed and used everyone has read a book before soon don’t like to read but use books to get information out of it. Others like looks because they have great stories them, something you cant stop reading and want to know what happens next! Many people LOVE to read love the stories in them and in my opinion the books are better then what they are in movies because some books they make into movies but are not as great as they were in the book, they leave out so many good things. For example the “The Hunger Games” the movie was good but it left out so many things. So books are better, I think that in their society they just were too lazy to read or just didn’t like feeling dumb which no one is. Just have to practice but they wanted the easy way out so they just burn books don’t even try! There excuse is because of fights and all that but that doesn’t even really happen, maybe only on movies but not real life, I never seen someone fight because someone else is smarter then them. Never! I don’t think this will ever happen in our society, reading and learning is a big thing here. It actually got bigger then it was before. Here the importance in a good education with out it you cant really get a good job, so I really don’t see this happening anytime soon.